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The quality-complementarity hypothesis : theory and evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice (contributor); Verhoogen, Eric (contributor) - 2009
, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794048
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Water tariffs and consumers' inaction
Ornaghi, Carmine; Tonin, Mirco - 2018
We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South-East of England in conjunction with an universal metering programme. We document how inertia leads customers to relinquish substantial financial gains, with less than a third of...
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The impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Wiersma, Quint - 2020
trade shocks on product and labor market power, we exploit China's reductions in input and output tariffs upon its accession … and labor market power. Reducing tariffs on intermediate inputs has increased a firm's price-cost markup but decreased the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169328
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Thresholds in the process of international financial integration
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - 2009
The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has not been able to conclusively establish the presumed growth benefits of financial integration....
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Southern African economic integration : evidence from an augmented gravity model
Warin, Thierry; Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Tengia, Optat; … - 2009
This paper investigates the feasibility of creating a common-currency union consisting of 16 countries in Southern Africa. We estimate an augmented-gravity model that includes public deficit, public debt, public expenditure, inflation, and the foreign reserves position. We also integrate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879350
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China‘s great boom as a historical process
Brandt, Loren; Rawski, Thomas G. - 2020
Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking discontinuity between recent outcomes and the economic experience of the prior 200 years invites portrayal of recent events as a "China miracle" that requires neither economic nor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012373127
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Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity
Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
income/productivity levels in the immigrants home countries. We make progress towards addressing endogeneity by specifying a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793124
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Regionalism, productivity, and innovation
Avendano, Rolando; Tani, Massimiliano; Tolin, Lovely C. - 2024
of regional integration on labor productivity and firms' probability to innovate using data from a panel of 170 economies … cooperation and integration, can positively contribute to labor productivity and innovation, in addition to known factors of …
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The long-run effects of immigration : evidence across a barrier to refugee settlement
Ciccone, Antonio; Nimczik, Jan Sebastian - 2022
Germany. We examine their effect on today's productivity, wages, income, rents, education, and population density at the … with higher rents as well as higher productivity, wages, and education levels. We examine whether today's economic …
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The effects of local market concentration and international competition on firm productivity : evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; López-Calva, Luis F.; … - 2020
Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have … the effects of local industry concentration on productivity. The main results show that a decline by 10 points in the … factor productivity of revenue. Local industry concentration also has heterogeneous effects on productivity across industries …
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