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We develop a new econometric framework that simultaneously allows recovering heterogeneity in demand, TFP and markups … that are implicit in previous firm-level productivity estimation approaches. We use Belgian firms production data to … quantify TFP, demand and markups and show how they are correlated among them, across time and with measures obtained from other …
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labour productivity, over the Great Recession. Our findings suggest that the poor UK firms' productivity performance post …-recession is due to both a weakening of demand and a decreasing TFP-Q pushing down sales, markups, revenue TFP and labour …We revisit UK's poor productivity performance since the Great Recession by means of both a suitable theoretical …
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varies across countries (the fickle fringe), the interdependence in demand or production technology making vectors of … with the size of the destination market and with the ability to match demand, but is inversely related to market …
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Total Factor Productivity (TFP), the empirical evidence on agglomeration externalities rests on measures obtained using firm … suggests that the revenue productivity advantage of denser areas is mainly driven by higher prices charged rather than … because they sell higher demand/quality products. Finally, while the correlation between firm revenue TFP and firm size is …
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The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for … extent the conclusions of some studies change if some alternative indicator for the tax burden on labour is employed. We … indicator for the tax burden on labour is also shown to affect the conclusions of some well-known empirical models. …
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We study planned price changes in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand … during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand deficiencies dominate in the short run. Quarter … role for demand stimulus policy to buffer the Covid-19 economic crisis. …
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It is widely understood that the real price of globally traded commodities is determined by the forces of demand and … supply. One of the main determinants of the real price of commodities is shifts in the demand for commodities associated with …
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This paper provides a unified treatment of externalities associated with fertility and human capital accumulation as they relate to pension systems. It considers as overlapping generations model in which every generation consists of high earners and low earners with the proportion of types being...
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This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioural research on the role of human pro-social motivation to maintain social order. I argue that social order can be conceptualized as a public good game. Past attempts to explain social order typically relied on the assumption of selfish and...
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The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites and to investigate the nature of the links between recruitment of elites and economic growth. The main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their...
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