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Productivity Effects of Tve Privatization : The Case Study of Garment and Metal Casting Enterprises in the Greater Yangtze River Region

Sonobe, Tetsushi; Otsuka, Keijiro - 2021

While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly … and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study …

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Volatility and Dispersion in Business Growth Rates : Publicly Traded Versus Privately Held Firms

Davis, Steven J. - 2014

We study the variability of business growth rates in the U.S. private sector from 1976 onwards. To carry out our study, we exploit the recently developed Longitudinal Business Database (LBD), which contains annual observations on employment and payroll for all U.S. businesses. Our central...

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The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are below emerging countries such as Brazil, China and...

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Growth, Initial Conditions, Law and Speed of Privatization in Transition Countries : 11 Years Later

Godoy, Sergio; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2021

the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more … endogeneity, confused issues of speed and level of privatization, and did not face up to the problems of multicollinearity. Our … results suggest that, contrary to the earlier literature, the speed of privatization is negatively associated with growth, but …

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Business Groups and the Big Push : Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth

Nakamura, Masao - 2013

feudal elite; withdrew its hand with a propitious mass privatization that rallied the private sector; marginalized an …

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Economic Growth in the Mid Atlantic Region : Conjectural Estimates for 1720 to 1800

Mancall, Peter C. - 2011

We employ the conjectural approach to estimate the growth of GDP per capita for the colonies and states of the mid-Atlantic region (Del., NJ, NY and Penn). In contrast to previous studies of the region's growth that relied heavily on the performance of the export sector, the conjectural method...

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The Spread of Manufacturing to the Poor Periphery 1870---2007

Bénétrix, Agustín S. - 2012

This paper documents industrial output growth around the poor periphery (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa) between 1870 and 2007. We find that although the roots of rapid peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th...

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Emigration During the French Revolution : Consequences in the Short and Longue Durée

Franck, Raphael - 2017

During the French Revolution, more than 100,000 individuals, predominantly supporters of the Old Regime, fled France. As a result, some areas experienced a significant change in the composition of the local elites whereas in others the pre-revolutionary social structure remained virtually...

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Capitalism and Democracy in 2040 : Forecasts and Speculations

Fogel, Robert W. - 2010

While the economies of the fifteen countries that were in the European Union (EU15) in 2000 will continue to grow from now until 2040, they will not be able to match the surges in growth that will occur in South and East Asia. In 2040, the Chinese economy will reach $123 trillion, or nearly...

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Geography and Economic Development

Gallup, John Luke; Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Mellinger, Andrew D. - 2021

This paper addresses the complex relationship between geography and macroeconomic growth. We investigate the ways in which geography may matter directly for growth, controlling for economic policies and institutions, as well as the effects of geography on policy choices and institutions. We find...

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