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We introduce a novel approach to modeling the impact of institutional quality on firm performance. Our methodology … enables us to estimate the marginal effect of institutional quality on TFP, factor inputs and output of each firm, which gives … particular level of institutional quality. We are also able to model marginal impact of institutional quality on both TFP and the …
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effects of a nationwide policy of information integration on the quality of prescribing. We use the rollout of an electronic … environment thus enhances coordination and narrows differences in the quality of prescribing. …
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This paper uses a novel firm level data set to investigate the impact of a unique quality management practice on the … effects between complex and basic lines of assembly. Most specifications show that the implementation of the new quality … quantity-quality trade off, in that whilst the implementation of the new management practice generally adversely impacted upon …
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Since the late twentieth century there has been a growing interest in academic and political circles on inequality. In this paper, we develop a systematic analysis of the literature on this topic published in economic journals since the 1950s. This is done through an innovative approach that...
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The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and others. Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine how it changes with age, how stylistic differences and age affect impact, and how style and prior...
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at the effectiveness of various interventions and the factors that influence program performance including country … profiling and follow-up systems in determining program performance, and some evidence about the importance of incentive systems …
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In 2017, the federal government invested over $40 billion on university research; another $16 billion came from private sector sources. The expectation is that these investments will bear varied fruits, including outputs like more economic growth, more scientific advances, the training and...
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This paper surveys the economics academic literature on Brexit. It is organised in: pillars, channels, and consequences. The two building blocks to understand Brexit are the economic history of the UK-EU relationship and the literature on the political economy of globalisation and populism. The...
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This paper determines the ranking of the publications units of assessment which were submitted to the UK research evaluation carried out in 2014, the REF, which would have been obtained if their submission had been evaluated with the bibliometric algorithm used by the Italian evaluation agency,...
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