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This paper investigates the impact of ownership structure on the productivity performance of Russian industrial …
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complexity and productivity which dominates the already known correlation between vertical integration and productivity. Results …
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This paper investigates the determinants of profit change over the period 1991-2008 for the Water and Sewerage Companies (WaSCs) in the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry. We firstly apply an input oriented profit decomposition approach following the approach of De Witte & Saal...
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-specific (temporal) index number based profitability growth as a function of the profitability, productivity and price performance growth … that the steady decline in average price performance, gains in productivity and relatively stable economic profitability … after 2000, suggest that Ofwat is now more focused on passing productivity benefits to consumers, and maintaining stable …
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The paper investigates the determinants of cosmopolitan cities. The hypothesis tested empirically is whether gradual improvements in distant communication boost the generation of ethnically heterogeneous cities. Consequently to easier communication, movers increasingly rely on an enlarged...
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water resources in a sustainable and efficient way. This demands a comprehensive assessment of water productivity dynamics … Extraction Method to estimate inter-temporal indirect (i.e., including intersectoral linkages) water productivity values. The … productivity found for agriculture confirms the intuition that this sector has to play a fundamental role in any water saving …
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We use data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of city residents. We show that US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born...
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productivity. …
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factor productivity in a large sample of Italian firms. By splitting the full sample on the basis of the ex-ante likelihood … shocks, provided they affect all firms randomly. Both market power and total factor productivity are estimated by applying …" firms a positive transitory shock to productivity growth rates is observed immediately after the announcement of the reform …
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inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy …
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