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Sinn, Hans-Werner; Westermann, Frank - 2000

economic predicament. With an aggregate labour productivity of less than 60% relative to the rest of the country, both are true …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781655

Does turnover inhibit specialization? : evidence from a skill survey in Peru

Atencio-De-Leon, Andrea; Lee, Munseob; Macaluso, Claudia - 2023

We design, pilot, and field a new survey of occupational skills in Peru, to investigate human capital differences between poor and rich countries. Though the average skill level is comparable, Peruvian jobs have markedly more uniform skill profiles than jobs in the US. However, matching...

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One size does not fit all : TFP in the aftermath of financial crises in three European countries

Abele, Christian; Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Fontagné, … - 2021

-13 on firm-level productivity in France, Italy and Spain. We show that relying on a single break date in 2008 misses both …-level productivity negatively, high-leverage firms suffer more from financial constraints only in Italy, when they are relatively small … productivity. …

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International competition, slim firms and wage inequality

Wälde, Klaus; Weiss, Pia - 2004

A country with Cournot competition and free entry experiences an increase of its market size either due to economic growth or international integration of goods markets. The implied increase in competition leads to shrinking mark-ups and forces firms to reduce overhead costs relative to output....

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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003

Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...

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Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs

Mukherjee, Arijit - 2016

Recent theoretical research shows that exporters are more productive than nonexporters. We show that this result holds almost trivially for the case of constant marginal cost of production, as mainly assumed in the literature, but it may not hold true if the marginal cost is not constant. Our...

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Productivity differences in OECD countries

Pascual, Antonio I. Garcia - 2000

This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests …

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Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity : evidence from China

Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019

We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …

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Robots and firms

Koch, Michael; Manuylov, Ilya; Smolka, Marcel - 2019

robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997063

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 …

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