profit-deviating preferences from the state-defined regulatory status of nonprofit production. We argue that this separation … is crucial in providing predictions about the underlying forces which allow the coexistence of nonprofit and for-profit … separating choice of nonprofit status from profit-deviating preferences, the paper provides predictions about the forces which …

This paper examines the impact of unionization on profit- ability, growth and productivity using time series data on … analysis is that information about union wage and productivity effects is not sufficient to permit prediction of the sign (or … negative union effects on profitability, but growth, productivity and the capital-labor ratio appear to be little affected by …

The purpose of this paper is to treat scale economies, profit-maximizing markups, economic profitability, capacity … utilization and productivity growth within an integrated structural model, and to assess their interactions empirically using … annual two-digit U.S. manufacturing data. Attention is focused on error biases in measuring productivity using traditional …

new enterprises. After these reforms, however, it has taken a number of years before output and productivity have begun to … result, it takes time before the benefits of reform show up in increases in measured output and productivity. To establish a … that it takes 5-7 years until measured output and productivity begin to grow rapidly following reform. This finding …

percent increase in operating efficiency, achieved primarily by reducing the frequency and duration of reactor outages. At … average wholesale prices the value of this increased efficiency is approximately $2.5 billion annually and implies an annual …

empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …

sector ownership has no independent impact on productivity growth. The finding that ownership per se does not matter, but …

-level productivity. We also examine whether M&As increase efficiency through reallocation of production to more efficient plants or …Study of the impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on productivity and market power has been complicated by the … difficulty of separating these two effects. We use newly-developed techniques to separately estimate productivity and markups …