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Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts

Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2014

Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...

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Persistence of Politicians and Firms' Innovation

Bellettini, Giorgio - 2014

We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation activity of firms. We use 12,000 firm-level observations from three waves of the Italian Observatory over Small and Medium Enterprises, and introduce a measure of political...

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External Constraints Matter for Privatizations

Petrarca, Ilaria - 2014

We present an analysis of the share of public ownership in the product market in the OECD countries from 1974 to 2007. Despite much has been said on the broad topic of reforms and regulation, a sector-specific insight is missing. We replicate the analysis of Galasso (2014) by sector of activity...

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Government Outsourcing : Public Contracting with Private Monopoly

Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2006

The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation. The government maximizes total surplus but incurs some cost of public funds. An alternative to regulation is proposed in which firms are free to enter the market and to choose...

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Urbanity

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - 2014

I define a composite amenity that provides aesthetic and consumption value to local residents: Urbanity. A novel data set of geo-tagged photos shared in internet communities serves as a proxy for urbanity. From the spatial pattern of house prices and photos I identify the value of urbanity in...

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Political Connections, State Ownership and Productivity in China

Harris, Richard I. D. - 2017

Subordination of business to political influence has remains pervasive in China. We construct a Schumpeterian-type model of growth with managerial time allocation between productive activities and building up political connections. The model predicts the impact of different patterns of state...

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Revisiting the OLI Paradigm : The Institutions, the State, and China's OFDI

Liang, Hao - 2011

We propose a modified theoretical framework based on John Dunning's classical OLI paradigm in the international business literature to analyze Chinese firms' fast-growing and aggressive outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). In particular, from an institutional perspective, we suggest a...

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Does Pension Privatization Increase Economic Growth? Evidence from Latin America and Eastern Europe

Altiparmakov, Nikola - 2016

Analyses of pension funding effects on economic growth need to differentiate between ‘carve-out' pension privatization … evidence that pension privatization in Latin America and Eastern Europe was associated with higher economic growth. The result … particularly unlikely in countries resorting to debt-financed privatization. Furthermore, we note the lack of positive pension …

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Contracting Out Mandatory Counselling and Training for Long-Term Unemployed. Private For-Profit or Non-Profit, or Keep it Public?

Cockx, Bart - 2015

This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...

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GDP Growth, Private Debt and Monetary Policy

Cafiso, Gianluca - 2017

Economic research has considered Private Debt a determinant of GDP growth for years. By keeping this perspective, the objective of this work is to understand how much of the GDP response to a monetary shock is due to the variation of private debt. This is the marginal contribution of private...

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