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Comparing the Investment Behavior of Public and Private Firms

Asker, John - 2014

We evaluate differences in investment behavior between stock market listed and privately held firms in the U.S. using a … rich new data source on private firms. Listed firms invest less and are less responsive to changes in investment … firms, how we measure investment opportunities, lifecycle differences, or our matching criteria. We suggest that the …

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Is Poland the Next Spain?

Caselli, Francesco - 2012

We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater...

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Property Rights and Finance

Johnson, Simon; McMillan, John; Woodruff, Christopher - 2021

Which is the tighter constraint on private sector investment: weak property rights or limited access to external …

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Behavioral Economics Perspectives on Public Sector Pension Plans

Beshears, John - 2011

We describe the pension plan features of the states and the largest cities and counties in the U.S. Unlike in the private sector, defined benefit (DB) pensions are still the norm in the public sector. However, a few jurisdictions have shifted towards defined contribution (DC) plans as their...

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Dynamic Labor Demand in China : Public and Private Objectives

Cooper, Russell - 2010

This paper studies dynamic labor demand by private and public manufacturing plants in China. It contributes along two dimensions. First, it uncovers the objectives of public enterprises and compares them to private enterprises. Second, it estimates adjustment costs of these plants and thus their...

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The Chinese Corporate Savings Puzzle : a Firm-Level Cross-Country Perspective

Bayoumi, Tamim - 2010

China's high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country's large current account surplus. The mainstream explanation for high corporate savings is a combination of windfall profits in state-owned firms, especially in resource sectors, and mis-governance of...

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Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings

Simcoe, Timothy - 2014

We measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on private-sector adoption of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. Using matching methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find...

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Wages, Pensions, and Public-Private Sector Compensation Differentials for Older Workers

Bewerunge, Philipp - 2013

We use a sample of full-time workers over 50 years of age from the 2004 and 2006 waves of the Health and Retirement Study to investigate whether workers in federal, state, and local government receive more generous wage and pension compensation than private sector workers, ceteris paribus. With...

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Private Deception and the Rise of Public Employment Offices in the United States, 1890 - 1930

Lee, Woong - 2008

At the turn of the 20th century, state and local governments in the United States began to establish public employment offices. These non-profit governmental organizations match job seekers and businesses, one of their main objectives being to protect job seekers from fraudulent activities by...

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Political Careers or Career Politicians?

Mattozzi, Andrea - 2007

Two main career paths are prevalent among politicians in modern democracies: there are career politicians (i.e., politicians who work in the political sector until retirement), and political careers (i.e., there are politicians who leave politics before retirement and work in the private...

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