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Modelling and measuring business risk and the resiliency of retail banks

Chaffai, Mohamed E.; Dietsch, Michel - 2013

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Rationalizability, cost-rationalizability, and Afriat's efficiency index

Polisson, Matthew; Quah, John K.-H. - 2022

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A decomposition of U.S. business sector TFP growth into technical progress and cost efficiency components

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No teens, no tech : how shortages of young workers hinder firm technology investments

Lipowski, Cäcilia - 2024

Firms in developed countries face increasing shortages of young workers. This paper studies the importance of young workers, particularly vocational trainees, for firm technology investments. Leveraging exogenous variation in trainee supply caused by an education reform in Germany in 2001, I...

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Wages and productivity growth in a dynamic oligopoly

Bester, Helmut; Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakēs, … - 2009

This paper studies the innovation dynamics of an oligopolistic industry. The firms compete not only in the output market but also by engaging in productivity enhancing innovations to reduce labor costs. Rent sharing may generate productivity dependent wage differentials. Productivity growth...

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The commitment role of equity financing

Fahn, Matthias; Wamser, Georg; Merlo, Valeria - 2017

analysis provides an explanation for why some firms only use little debt financing. Predictions made by our theory are in line …

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Uncertainty, misallocation and the life-cycle growth of firms

Mäkynen, Eero; Vähämaa, Oskari - 2021

We develop a measure of static misallocation that separates uncertainty from misallocation generated by tax-like distortions. In the Finnish firm-level data, uncertainty accounts for the majority of ex post misallocation and explains a strong decreasing age-dependent trend in it. To understand...

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Economic growth through worker reallocation : the role of knowledge spillovers

Mäkynen, Eero - 2021

An establishment can improve its productivity by hiring workers from more productive establishments. Then, how important is worker reallocation for aggregate productivity growth? To study this question, I develop a general equilibrium model where knowledge transmits as workers reallocate from...

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Carbon taxes and joint implementation : an applied general equilibrium analysis for Germany and India

Böhringer, Christoph - 2000

and overall efficiency gains as compared to an environmental tax reform 'stand-alone' (ETR). We address this question in …

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Demand and supply side linkages in exporting multiproduct firms

Eckel, Carsten; Flach, Lisandra; Meng, Ning - 2023

Products produced by a multiproduct firm can be linked through demand linkages or supply linkages. On the demand side, changes in the price of one product can affect the demand for a firm's other products through shifts in consumer expenditures. This is commonly referred to as the...

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