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The inefficiency of the Italian judicial system has contributed to reduced investments, slow growth and a difficult business environment. The enforcement of civil and commercial claims suffers from excessive delays in court proceedings, resulting in a very large number of pending cases. The...
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: (1) distribution expenses are large - they amount to over half of labor costs; (2) plants in the largest decile …, distribution costs as a share of sales declined by one third. We develop a model of heterogeneous manufacturing firms that rely on … share. In combination with the model, these trends suggest largescale decreases in both variable and fixed costs of …
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This paper proposes a new effect of firing costs on firms'' behavior that builds from firms'' demand for liquidity … firing costs reduces the value of labor''s liquidity service, which affects firms'' demand for liquidity, and thus, firms …'' demand for inputs. In addition to this negative effect at the creation margin, I also show that firing costs imply relatively …
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This paper reviews how recent studies of banking crises differ with regard to the dating, length, and costs of the … crisis costs. Cross-sectional evidence does not show that the length of a crisis is a significant contributor to its …
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Effective public investment requires governments to address the "recurrent cost problem" to ensure operations and maintenance (O&M) expenditures are sufficient to sustain the flow of productive public capital services to private factors of production. Building on the model of Buffie et al...
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