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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the …-level productivity, profitability, Tobin%u2019s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross … tail of extremely badly managed firms. We find that poor management practices are more prevalent when (a) product market …
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Innovation and Productivity in Smes : Empirical Evidence for Italy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2010
Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation success from firm surveys along with the usual Ramp;D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758059
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Do Women Pay More for Credit? Evidence from Italy
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2008
-employed individuals, we find robust evidence that women in Italy pay more for overdraft facilities than men. We could not find any …
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Covid-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2021
We estimate the impact of COVID-19 on business failures for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using firm-level data in seventeen countries. Absent government support, the failure rate of SMEs would have increased by 9.1 percentage points, representing 4.6 percent of private sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244116
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Matching Firms, Managers and Incentives
Bandiera, Oriana - 2012
We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The data includes manager characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115322
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Does Management Matter in Schools
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries
McKenzie, David J. - 2015
Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms …
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Propose with a Rose? Signaling in Internet Dating Markets
Lee, Soohyung - 2011
The large literature on costly signaling and the somewhat scant literature on preference signaling had varying success in showing the effectiveness of signals. We use a field experiment to show that even when everyone can send a signal, signals are free and the only costs are opportunity costs,...
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Can Self-Help Groups Really Be "Self-Help"?
Greaney, Brian - 2014
This paper examines a cost-reducing innovation to the delivery of "Self-Help Group" microfinance services. These groups typically rely on outside agents to found and administer the groups although funds are raised by the group members. The innovation is to have the agents earn their payment by...
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Measuring Loan Outcomes at Postsecondary Institutions : Cohort Repayment Rates as an Indicator of Student Success and Institutional Accountability
Chou, Tiffany - 2017
Low- and middle-income college borrowers often struggle with economic opportunity and loan burdens after leaving school. However, some institutions, including some non-selective schools, do a good job of providing economic mobility to low-income students. This implies that there is scope for a...
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