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establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity through firm entry dynamics. The model is calibrated to the … decrease in the steady-state average productivity of roughly 0.5 percent compared to the optimum's steady-state. This decrease … in productivity is not innocuous: it leads to a doubling of the welfare cost of inflation. …
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equal, managers who themselves played at a higher level raise the productivity of less-skilled teams by more than that of … accumulated professional managing experience raise the productivity of talented players by more than that of less-talented players …
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data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for evidence … or defence R&D. Our findings tentatively suggest that for maximum market sector productivity impact government innovation …
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This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …
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face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …
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American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms … and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios. …
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Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...
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This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …
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Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of a production function … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry-specific. …
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, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs' counterparts, i.e. the 'control … very important but specific function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth …
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