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Structural reforms and productivity growth in emerging market and developing economies
Dabla-Norris, Era; Ho, Giang; Kyobe, Annette - 2016
This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...
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Tax administration and firm performance : new data and evidence for emerging market and developing economies
Dabla-Norris, Era; Misch, Florian; Cleary, Duncan; … - 2017
Tax compliance costs tend to be disproportionately higher for small and young businesses. This paper examines how the quality of tax administration affects firm performance for a large sample of firms in emerging market and developing economies. We construct a novel, internationally comparable,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671089
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State-owned enterprises in emerging Europe : the good, the bad, and the ugly
Böwer, Uwe - 2017
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) play an important role in Emerging Europe's economies, notably in the energy and transport sectors. Based on a new firm-level dataset, this paper reviews the SOE landscape, assesses SOE performance across countries and vis-a-vis private firms, and evaluates recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011748785
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Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Markets : Income, Repatriations and Financial Vulnerabillities
Lehmann, Alexander - 2002
Based on U.S. data, the returns on foreign direct investment in emerging markets are shown to be substantially higher than would be suggested by official balance of payments statistics. This paper identifies the determinants of FDI profitability in 43 industrialized and developing countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399589
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The Investment Technology of Foreign and Domestic Institutional Investors in an Emerging Market
Patnaik, Ila - 2013
The literature on the investment technology of foreign versus domestic investors has inconclusive results. This paper revisits the question, with a focus on decomposing portfolio performance into asset allocation and security selection. We document signicant differences in exposure to systematic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395250
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Determinants of firm profitability in Colombia’s manufacturing sector : exchange rate or structural?
Griffin, Naomi N. - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281180
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Spring forward or fall back? : the post-crisis recovery of firms
Medina, Leandro - 2012
This paper studies corporate performance in the aftermath of the global crisis by examining 6,581 manufacturing firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012671535
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Structural changes in Japanese firms : business dynamism in an aging society
Hong, Gee Hee; Ito, Arata; Saito, Yukiko Umeno; Anh Thi … - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a serious threat to the survival of Japanese firms, highlighting the importance of understanding how and why firms exit. In this paper, we use a rich firm-level dataset of Japanese firms to document how firm exit patterns have evolved between 2007 and 2017. Firm...
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Determinants of Firm Profitability in Colombia’s Manufacturing Sector : Exchange Rate or Structural?
Griffin, Naomi - 2015
weak performance of Colombia’s manufacturing sector in recent years. This paper examines the effects of the real exchange … rate, external and domestic demand, and structural changes on firms’ profitability in Colombia’s manufacturing sector …,we find no strong evidence that real appreciation has, on average, negatively affected the profitability of manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014412098
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Competition and Firm Productivity : Evidence From Firm-Level Data
Schiffbauer, Marc - 2010
This paper presents empirical evidence on the impact of competition on firm productivity. Using firm-level observations from the World Bank Enterprise Survey database, we find a positive and robust causal relationship between our proxies for competition and our measures of productivity. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402818