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Class Struggle Inside the Firm : A Study of German Codetermination
Gorton, Gary B. - 2010
German system of codetermination,' a governance system under which employees are allocated some control rights over corporate … assets by law. Codetermination laws require that employees be represented on the (supervisory) board of directors. If … codetermination sufficiently empowers employees, and if stockholders' rights cannot be contractually protected, then employees may …
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Effektive Steuerbelastungen bei Vorliegen ökonomischer Renten
Schreiber, Ulrich; Spengel, Christoph; Lammersen, Lothar - 2001
Die Messung der effektiven Steuerbelastung rentabler Investitionen ist mit zahlreichen methodischen Problemen verbunden. Diese lassen sich zum Teil mit einem auf Devereux und Griffith zurückgehenden Modell überwinden. Basierend auf ihrem Ansatz wird eine Maßgröße für die effektive...
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The impact of innovation on employment in small and medium enterprises with different growth rates
Zimmermann, Volker (contributor) - 2008
This article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises using a quantile regression approach. The key findings are that innovation has a positive effect on employment in both growing and shrinking firms. The impact of innovation on employee...
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Managerial ownership and firm performance in German small and medium-sized enterprises
Müller, Elisabeth; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2001
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R&D partnerships and innovation performance : can there be too much of a good thing?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2014
collaborative R&D projects in the firms' total R&D project portfolio. For a sample of 2,891 firms located in Germany, active in …
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International Trade, Offshoring and Heterogeneous Firms
Baldwin, Richard - 2011
Recent trade models determine the equilibrium distribution of firm-level efficiency endogenously and show that freer trade shifts the distribution towards higher average productivity due to entry and exit of firms. These models ignore the possibility that freer trade also alters the firm-size...
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A Unified Theory of Firm Selection and Growth
Arkolakis, Costas - 2011
This paper studies the effects of marketing choice to firm growth. I assume that firm-level growth is the result of idiosyncratic productivity improvements with continuous arrival of new potential producers. A firm enters a market if it is profitable to incur the marginal cost to reach the first...
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Size-Dependent Regulations, Firm Size Distribution, and Reallocation
Gourio, Francois - 2014
In France, firms with 50 employees or more face substantially more regulation than firms with less than 50. As a result, the size distribution of firms is visibly distorted: there are many firms with exactly 49 employees. We model the regulation as the combination of a sunk cost that must be...
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Misallocation, Establishment Size, and Productivity
Bento, Pedro - 2016
We consider a tractable model of heterogeneous production units that features endogenous entry and productivity investment to assess the quantitative impact of policy distortions on aggregate output and establishment size. Relative to the standard factor misallocation framework, policy...
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On the Measure of Distortions
Hopenhayn, Hugo A. - 2014
Abstract The paper considers formally the mapping from distortions in the allocations of resources across firms to aggregate productivity. TFP gaps are characterized as the integral of a strictly concave function with respect to an employment-weighted measure of distortions. Size related...
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