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Productivity varies greatly among farmers and the source of that variation is not fully understood. Using a unique …
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This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural … productivity. Overall, we find statistically significant declines in agricultural productivity that is associated with both floods …
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Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to … literature on the Porter Hypothesis, which posits a positive relationship between environmental regulation and "green" TFP growth … and enforcement. Our key findings are: (1) prudential regulation limits expansion of plants with high initial pollution …
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. 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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This paper investigates the positive international spillover effects of non-discriminatory product regulations, such as quality standards. We incorporate regulations into a multi-country general equilibrium framework with firm heterogeneity and variable markups. We model regulations as a...
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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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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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decisions, increased productivity, and higher exit rates. Our empirical analysis, using a novel dataset and instrumental … annual productivity growth, and a 3.6% points higher probability of exit for firms with binding employment targets. Our …. Additionally, an alternative policy of productivity investment subsidies proved costly and less effective in the short term. …
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effects on physical capital, employment and productivity through a production function. On the basis of reforms defined as … observed changes in policies, the paper finds that product market regulation has the largest overall single policy impact five … market regulation. The paper also shows that policy impacts can differ at different horizons. The overall long-term effects …
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This paper adopts an instrumental variable approach to uncover the impact of variations in minimum temperature on emergence and severity of actual violence through the effect on food availability, captured by rice crops per capita. The link between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops...
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