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Can Peers Improve Agricultural Productivity?
Songsermsawas, Tisorn - 2014
Productivity varies greatly among farmers and the source of that variation is not fully understood. Using a unique …
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The Quantification of Structural Reforms : Extending the Framework to Emerging Market Economies
Égert, Balázs - 2018
. More competition-friendly regulations, as measured by the OECDs' Product Market Regulation (PMR) indicator improve economic … businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …
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The International Organization of Production in the Regulatory Void
Herkenhoff, Philipp - 2020
international outsourcing and most strongly so for sourcing from low-regulation countries. Motivated by these findings, we introduce …
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Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2016
The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm's actions and decisions. One of these decisions … endogenous response of revenue-based and quantity-based productivity to a change in layers: a firm reorganization. We show that … as a result of an exogenous demand or productivity shock that makes the firm reorganize and add a management layer …
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Maize and Precolonial Africa
Cherniwchan, Jevan - 2018
Columbus's arrival in the New World triggered an unprecedented movement of people and crops across the Atlantic Ocean. We study an overlooked part of this Columbian Exchange: the effects of New World crops in Africa. Specifically, we test the hypothesis that the introduction of maize increased...
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Democratic Tipping Points
Ciccone, Antonio - 2018
I examine whether transitory events can tip the scales against authoritarian regimes and lead to persistent democratization. I think of situations where this is a possibility as democratic tipping points. The transitory events I focus on are rainfall shocks in the most agricultural countries in...
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded - 2015
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
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Stringency of Land-Use Regulation : Building Heights in US Cities
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2018
This paper has explored the stringency of land-use regulation in US cities, focusing on building heights. Substantial …
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The Effects of Size-Based Regulation on Small Firms : Evidence from VAT Threshold
Harju, Jarkko - 2016
There is only limited evidence of how small firms respond to size-based regulations applied in various countries. We study this question by examining the value-added tax (VAT) threshold in Finland. We find sizable bunching of firms in the sales distribution just below the exemption threshold,...
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Tax vs. Regulation Policy and the Location of Financial Sector FDI
Merz, Julia - 2015
affects other countries by estimating cross-country tax and regulation elasticities …
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