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Firm size distortions and the productivity distribution: Evidence from France

Garicano, Luis; Lelarge, Claire; Van Reenen, John - 2013

We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to bind on firms with exactly 50 or more employees....

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Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share

Autor, David; Dorn, David; Katz, Lawrence; Patterson, … - 2017

al. (2017), we evaluate and confirm two core claims of the superstar firm hypothesis: the concentration of sales among … firms within industries has risen across much of the private sector; and industries with larger increases in concentration …

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The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms

Autor, David; Dorn, David; Katz, Lawrence; Patterson, … - 2017

firms in each industry, product market concentration will rise as industries become increasingly dominated by superstar … increasingly concentrate in a small number of firms; industries where concentration rises most will have the largest declines in … share will be greatest in the sectors with the largest increases in market concentration; and finally, such patterns will be …

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The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable endogenous growth model with size-contingent regulations. We apply this to population administrative firm panel data from France, where many labor regulations apply to firms...

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Electoral accountability and corruption in local governments: evidence from audit reports

Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico - 2007

Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democratic institutions, restricts public services, and lowers productivity undermining economic development. Yet despite its importance, our understanding of what determines corruption is limited. This paper uses a novel...

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Exposing corrupt politicians: the effects of Brazil's publicly released audits on electoral outcomes

Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico - 2007

This paper examines whether access to information enhances political accountability. Based upon the results of Brazil's recent anti-corruption program that randomly audits municipal expenditures of federally-transferred funds, it estimates the effects of the disclosure of local government...

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...

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