We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern … productivity, but they also underscore the risks of quantity-based incentives where quality is important …

efficiency of co-ops; and on problems of democratic governance within co-ops. Using modern empirical methods applied to large …

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the … education. The econometric evidence documents a strong relationship between ICT capital and productivity in both countries, even … power disruption seems to significantly depress adoption and returns to ICT expenditures in India. This may be indicative of …

’s domestic bank by an internationalized banking group. Our results show that, after the acquisition, firms have a significantly … higher probability of starting export in countries where the consolidated bank has a foreign branch, which proxies for the … mainly reduce firms’ fixed entry costs in a foreign market. The analysis also shows that other channels, such as bank credit …

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …

We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski …