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Firm level productivity under imperfect competition in output and labor markets
Amoroso, Sara; Kort, Peter M.; Melenberg, Bertrand; … - 2010
This article examines the role of the interaction between product market and labor market imperfections in determining total factor productivity growth (TFPG). Embedding Dobbelaere and Mairesse's (2009) generalization of Hall's (1990) approach, allowing for the possibility that wages are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974678
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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
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Export decision under risk
Sousa, José de; Disdier, Anne-Célia; Gaigné, Carl - 2016
regularities by developing a new firmbased trade model wherein managers are risk averse. Higher volatility induces the reallocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547934
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Great moderation at the firm level? : unconditional vs. conditional Output volatility
Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); Döpke, Jörg (contributor);  … - 2008
Aggregated output in industrialized countries has become less volatile over the past decades. Whether this Great Moderationʺ can be found in firm level data as well remains disputed. We study the evolution of firm level output volatility using a balanced panel dataset on German firms that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003720335
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The organization of knowledge in multinational firms : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Global Economy, May 2014
Gumpert, Anna - 2015
develops a theoretical model that studies how firms optimally split knowledge between their headquarters and their production … plants if communication costs impede the access of production plants to headquarter knowledge. The paper assumes that the …-multinationals. This helps explain why multinational firms pay higher wages to their production workers than non-multinational firms, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281300
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Firm organization with multiple establishments
Gumpert, Anna; Steimer, Henrike; Antoni, Manfred - 2018
How do geographic frictions affect firm organization? We show theoretically and empirically that geographic frictions increase the use of middle managers in multi-establishment firms. In our model, we assume that the time of the CEO of a firm is a resource of limited supply that is shared among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955563
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Axiom preferences and choice mistakes under risk
Herweg, Fabian; Hippel, Svenja; Müller, Daniel; … - 2024
We investigate whether violations of canonical axioms of choice under risk are mistakes or a manifestation of true …
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Heavyweights - the impact of large businesses on productivity growth
Falck, Oliver (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003623797
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The information content of capacity utilisation rates for output gap estimates
Graff, Michael; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2010
From a theoretical perspective, the output gap is probably the most comprehensive and convincing concept to describe the cyclical position of an economy. Unfortunately, for practical purposes, the concept depends on the determination of potential output, which is an inherently unobservable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008797779
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Sources of productivity spillovers : panel data evidence from China
Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Kesina, Michaela - 2014
This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry using a rich panel data-set of 25,360 firms observed over the period 2004-2007. This industry is characterized by its important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper...
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