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An evaluation of the employment effects of barriers to outsourcing
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei - 2011
Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who export jobs through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets where the US has a comparative advantage feature...
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Genetic, cultural and geographical distances
Giuliano, Paola; Spilimbergo, Antonio; Tonon, Giovanni - 2006
This paper investigates how the measures of genetic distance between populations, which have been used in anthropology and historical linguistics, can be used in economics. What does the correlation between genetic distance and economic variables mean? Using the measure of genetic distance, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267771
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Using firm optimization to evaluate and estimate returns to scale
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2008
heterogeneity in productivity and factor prices symmetrically. The strength of the proposed estimator is illustrated by Monte Carlo …
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Business conditions and default risks across countries
Pflüger, Michael P.; Russek, Stephan - 2011
The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country level from a theoretical point of view. Our main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278811
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Firm heterogeneity, informal wage and good governance
Kar, Saibal; Marjit, Sugata - 2011
firms with varying levels of productivity. For example, in case of firms with relatively high levels of productivity …, enforcement has to be stricter than in the case with relatively low productivity firms. Taxing the more productive seems to be the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280733
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Much ado about nothing? Do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment?
Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2003
productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …
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Productivity, welfare and reallocation: theory and firm-level evidence
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2009
values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …
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Financial constraints and innovation: why poor countries don't catch up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition: theory and application to the German clothing industry
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …
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The productivity advantages of large cities: Distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
interactions that increase productivity), possibly reinforced by localised natural advantage. To distinguish between them, we nest … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the … cannot explain spatial productivity differences. This result holds across sectors, city size thresholds, establishment …
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