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Unraveling firms : demand, productivity and markups heterogeneity
Forlani, Emanuele; Martin, Ralf; Mion, Giordano; Muls, … - 2016 - First draft: 16th June 2015. This draft: January 15, 2016
that are implicit in previous firm-level productivity estimation approaches. We use Belgian firms production data to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417711
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The turnaround of the Swedish economy : lessons from large business sector reforms
Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2019
How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002862
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Nonparametric identification of production function, total factor productivity, and markup from revenue data
Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Sugita, Yoichi - 2020
function, total factor productivity, price markups over marginal costs, output prices, output quantities, a demand system, and …
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Fight or flight? : how do firms adapt their product mix in response to demand and competition
Macedoni, Luca; Zhang, Rui; Warzynski, Frederic - 2024
We propose a new model of multi-product firms in international trade, where firms choose their product mix based on the products’ attractiveness and endogenous competition. The model is motivated by two novel stylized facts using Danish manufacturing data, which demonstrate the importance of...
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Size matters : corruption perceptions versus corruption experiences by firms
Goel, Rajeev K.; Mazhar, Ummad; Ram, Rati - 2021
This study uses a large firm-level data set covering more than 80 countries to explore the effects of firm-size, city-size, and government-size on perceived and experienced corruption. Four points summarize our main findings, which seem instructive and new. First, there is a broad structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599915
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Gender diversity, labour in the boardroom and gender quotas
Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022
This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013445521
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Firm size and diversification : asymmetric multiproduct firms under Cournot competition
Grossmann, Volker - 2003
A positive relationship between firm size and product diversification is a long-standing stylized fact. However, so far there is no appropriate theoretical model to explain the underlying forces of this observation. This paper analyzes an oligopoly model with asymmetric multiproduct frms, which...
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Growth and earnings persistence in banking firms: a dynamic panel investigation
Shehzad, Choudhry Tanveer; Haan, Jakob de; Scholtens, Bert - 2009
This paper investigates (i) whether growth and profitability persist in banking firms, (ii) whether the level and volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a bank. Using a dynamic panel model estimated by GMM...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883061
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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - 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/10003850304
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 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/10009691623