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Forecasting aggregate productivity using information from firm-level data
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltán - 2009
This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378362
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Foreign investment and domestic productivity : identifying knowledge spillovers and competition effects
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2017
competition and positively affected by knowledge spillovers. We find that the positive spillovers dominate if foreign firms enter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715875
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Limiting limited liability
Dari-Mattiacci, Guiseppe - 2006
Limited liability may result in inefficient accident prevention, because a relevant portion of the expected harm is externalized on victims. This paper shows that under some restrictive conditions further limiting liability by means of a liability cap can improve caretaking.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349185
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Assessment of tourist competitiveness by analysing destination efficiency
Cracolici, Francesca; Rietveld, Piet; Nijkamp, Peter - 2006
tourist sector and the increasing competition on the tourist market as a consequence of the transition from mass tourism to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349706
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Competition and entry in banking : implications for stability and capital regulation
Boot, Arnoud W. A.; Marinč, Matej - 2006
We assess the influence of competition and capital regulation on the stability of the banking system. We particularly … ask two questions: i) how does capital regulation affect (endogenous) entry; and ii) how do (exogenous) changes in the … competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348715
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Bank deregulation, competition and economic growth : the US free banking experience
Ager, Philipp; Spargoli, Fabrizio - 2013
removing barriers to bank entry on bank competition and economic growth. As governments were not concerned about systemic … stability in this period, we are able to isolate the effects of bank competition from those of state implicit guarantees. We … states that retained state bank chartering policies. We argue that the fiercer bank competition following the introduction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227307
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Competition and entry in banking: implications for stability and capital regulation
Boot, Arnoud W. A.; Marinč, Matej - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003290402
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Productivity gains from offshoring : an empirical analysis for the Netherlands
Butter, Frank A. G. den; Pattipeilohy, Christiaan - 2007 - This version: 19 November 2007
A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs, using a recent theory on trade in tasks. A production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373831
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Growth effects of fiscal policies : a comparative analysis in a multi-country context
Brons, Martijn; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Nijkamp, Peter - 1999
The potential interactions among fiscal policies, investments and economicgrowth are complex and manifold.In this paper, we will perform a systematic comparative analysis of the variouseconomic insights that arecurrently available on these complex relationships, both theoretically (by aselective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301152
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Profit shifting and productivity mismeasurement
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Beetsma, Roel - 2000
This note identifies profit shifting in response to cross-countrydifferences in corporate tax rates as a source of productivitymismeasurement. To quantify the magnitude of mismeasurement, theprofit-shifting effect is isolated from other possible effects ofcorporatetax rates changes on real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011304391