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Export Orientation and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mengistae, Taye; Pattillo, Catherine A. - 2021
total factor productivity premium of 11-28 percent. The data do not allow testing of whether these premiums are caused by … data, we cannot disentangle its effect on productivity from those of more traditionally recognized channels of …
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Small and Vulnerable : Small Firm Productivity in the Great Productivity Slowdown
Chen, Sophia; Lee, Do Q - 2021
We provide broad-based evidence of a firm size premium of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Europe after the …
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Promoting Innovation : The Differential Impact of R&D Subsidies
Cherif, Reda; Hasanov, Fuad; Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, … - 2022
We investigate the effect of R&D subsidies on firms’ innovation by ownership, industry, and firm size using German firm-level data. The impact of R&D subsidies is heterogeneous across industries for multinational corporations (MNCs) and domestic firms while it does not differ substantially by...
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Distribution Costs
Ruane, Cian; Peter, Alessandra - 2022
We provide the first direct estimates of distribution expenses incurred by manufacturing plants and assess their importance for aggregate output. Using a novel measure from the Indian Annual Survey of Industries, we document three key facts: (1) distribution expenses are large – they amount to...
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Keeping it Simple–Efficiency Costs of Fixed Margin Regimes in Transfer Pricing
Beer, Sebastian; Loeprick, Jan; Leduc, Seb - 2022
total factor productivity across sectors. Focusing on the manufacturing sector, we then observe that simplification more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244520
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Death and Taxes : Does Taxation Matter for Firm Survival?
Cevik, Serhan - 2019
This paper investigates the impact of taxation on firm survival, using hazard models and a large-scale panel dataset on over 4 million nonfinancial firms from 21 countries over the period 1995-2015. We find ample evidence that a lower level of effective marginal tax rate improves firms' survival...
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Who Will Bear the Brunt of Lockdown Policies? Evidence from Tele-Workability Measures Across Countries
Brussevich, Mariya - 2020
Lockdowns imposed around the world to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic arehaving a differential impact on economic activity and jobs. This paper presents a new indexof the feasibility to work from home to investigate what types of jobs are most at risk. Weestimate that over 97.3...
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Tracing Productivity Growth Channels in the UK
Garcia-Macia, Daniel; Korosteleva, Julia A. - 2022
What drove the UK productivity slowdown post-GFC, and how is the post-Covid recovery expected to differ? This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306723
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Japan Out of the Lost Decade : Divine Wind or Firms' Effort?
Ogawa, Kazuo - 2012
supply factors such as productivity gains, materialized after long-fought restructuring efforts during the lost decade …
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Productivity Drag from Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Japan
Colacelli, Mariana - 2019
Productivity growth in Japan, as in most advanced economies, has moderated. This paper finds supportive evidence for … the important role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in explaining Japan's modest productivity growth. Results … show a substantial dispersion in firm-level productivity growth across sectors and even across firms within the same sector …
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