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A poverty outreach index and its application to microfinance

Paxton, Julia - In: Economics Bulletin 9 (2003) 2, pp. 1-10

The Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke poverty index is modified to a poverty outreach measure that incorporates both depth of outreach and scale. In an application to microfinance institutions, the use of this type of poverty outreach measure rejects the common notion that there is a necessary...

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A poverty outreach index and its application to microfinance

Paxton, Julia - In: Economics Bulletin 9 (2003) 2, pp. 1-10

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Economic Shocks and Savings Behavior by the Rural Poor

Paxton, Julia; Zhuo, Fan - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 4, pp. 3286-3293

Using data from 587 marginalized cooperative member households in rural Mexico, this paper examines how household formal financial savings fluctuates with economic shocks and other relevant variables. Regression results show that negative shocks, income, wealth, formal credit, distance from a...

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Entry, exit and productivity empirical results for German manufacturing industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

Using panel data from Spain Farinas and Ruano (IJIO 2005) test three hypotheses from a model by Hopenhayn (Econometrica 1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that enter in year t are less productive than incumbent...

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Export entry, export exit, and productivity in German manufacturing industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

This paper contributes to the flourishing literature on exports and productivity by using a unique newly available …

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Productivity and size of the export market evidence for West and East German plants, 2004

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship bet-ween productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading …

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Exports and productivity in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on … literature to document that the positive productivity differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and non-exporters is at …

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Productivity and the product scope of multi-product firms: a test of Feenstra-Ma

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 415-419

firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect”. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and …

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Are low-productive exporters marginal exporters? Evidence from Germany

Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 467-481

-exporters. It is argued that this exporter-productivity premium is due to extra cost of exporting that can be covered profitably by … than non-exporting firms from the same 4-digit industry both on average and over the whole productivity distribution …. However, many firms from the lower end of this distribution are exporters. This paper report that these low-productivity …

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Exports, R&D and productivity: a test of the Bustos-model with German enterprise data

Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 1942-1948

for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and productivity. …

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