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Fetter, T. Robert - 2018

represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas …

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Factor Utilization in Indian Manufacturing : A Look at the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys Data

Fernandes, Ana M. - 2010

We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian manufacturing. We focus on disparities among states in manufacturing employment patterns, and provide reduced form evidence of their relationship to both (i) institutional...

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Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India

Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2010

.S., we calculate manufacturing TFP gains of 30-50% in China and 40-60% in India …Resource misallocation can lower aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). We use micro data on manufacturing … establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India compared to the U.S. Compared to the U.S., we …

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Do Management Interventions Last? Evidence from India

Bloom, Nicholas - 2018

Beginning in 2008, we ran a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving firms (Bloom et al. 2013). In 2017 we revisited the plants and found three main results. First, while about half of the management practices adopted in the original experimental...

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Misallocation in the Market for Inputs : Enforcement and the Organization of Production

Boehm, Johannes - 2018

The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organize production. Using microdata on Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with weaker enforcement. Specifically, we document that in...

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Energy Productivity and Energy Demand : Experimental Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Plants

Ryan, Nicholas - 2018

This paper studies a field experiment among energy-intensive Indian manufacturing plants that offered energy consulting to raise energy productivity, the amount plants can produce with each unit of energy. Treatment plants, after two years and relative to the control, run longer hours, demand...

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Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics

Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019

, like attention, autonomy, and control, are important for learning-by-doing as well as for overall productivity, but are not …

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CEO Behavior and Firm Performance

Bandiera, Oriana - 2017

learning algorithm. The algorithm uncovers two distinct behavioral types: “leaders” and “managers”. Leaders focus on multi …

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Managing the Family Firm : Evidence from CEOS at Work

Bandiera, Oriana - 2015

We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs, and on whether family and professional CEOs differ on this dimension. We do so through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs' diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion, and to build a bottom-up measure of CEO labor supply. The...

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Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size

Foster, Andrew D. - 2017

scales. Using data from the India ICRISAT VLS panel survey we find evidence consistent with these conditions, suggesting that …

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