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Unraveling Firms : Demand, Productivity and Markups Heterogeneity
Forlani, Emanuele - 2016
that are implicit in previous firm-level productivity estimation approaches. We use Belgian firms production data to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997337
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087281
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Business Strategy and Firm Reorganization under Changing Market Conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - 2021
modernization investments, including ICT. The second part of the paper presents evidence on firms’ productivity paths, and the … heterogeneity in productivity among relatively similar firms. I also present selected evidence of these firms’ investments in … specific areas and how they affected their productivity. The observation of important intra-industry differences across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316362
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - CESifo - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607007
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Business Strategy and Firm Reorganization under Changing Market Conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2009
modernization investments, including ICT. The second part of the paper presents evidence on firms’ productivity paths, and the … heterogeneity in productivity among relatively similar firms. I also present selected evidence of these firms’ investments in … specific areas and how they affected their productivity. The observation of important intra-industry differences across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979391
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Health Insurance and Diversity of Treatment : A Policy Mix Perspective
Bardey, David - 2013
We determine the optimal health policy mix when the average utility of patients increases with the supply of drugs available in a therapeutic class. Health risk coverage rely on two instruments, copayment and reference pricing, that affect the supported risk composed by health expenses and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086413
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Health Insurance and Diversity of Treatment: A Policy Mix Perspective
Bardey, David; Jullien, Bruno; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - CESifo - 2013
We determine the optimal health policy mix when the average utility of patients increases with the supply of drugs available in a therapeutic class. Health risk coverage rely on two instruments, copayment and reference pricing, that affect the supported risk composed by health expenses and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610086
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Market Entry Regulation and International Competition
Upmann, Thorsten; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2003
As a part of their industry or competition policies governments decide whether to allow for free market entry of firms or to regulate market access. We analyze a model where governments (ab)use these policy decisions for strategic reasons in an international setting. Multiple equilibria of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196323
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Efficient Firm Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market
Kaas, Leo - 2015
The introduction of firm size into labor search models raises the question how wages are set when average and marginal product differ. We develop and analyze an alternative to the existing bargaining framework: Firms compete for labor by publicly posting long–term contracts. In such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038280
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Heterogeneous Firms in a Product Fragmentation World
Gao, Yue - 2013
elsewhere) can be used by multinational firms which have different productivity to serve the market abroad when product chains … abroad by either horizontal or vertical FDI. Upon opening a market to trade, firms with the lowest productivity will exit …, those with intermediate productivity will export, and those with higher productivity will choose fragmentation. Among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082006