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How sensitive is long-run individual well-being to environmental conditions early in life? This paper examines the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 and 1974. We link historical...
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improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … 1985-2007. Competitive pressures are proxied with sectoral product market regulation data. We find evidence that … to the productivity frontier …
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In many industries firms can learn about new technologies from other adopters; mandatory disclosure regulations represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas industry to examine firm claims that disclosure...
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This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted … basis of their calibration by the OECD product and labour market anti-competitive regulation indicators suggests that nearly …
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of economic growth. It examines this hypothesis by estimating the productivity gain afforded to Brazilian textile firms … regressions on 18 firm-level censuses covering the period 1866-1934, which permit me to decompose total factor productivity growth … accelerated rates of growth of productivity …
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through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in … relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions … finding that the impact of upstream regulations on total factor productivity can be sizeable, and they provide evidence that a …
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France. During the 1980s and 1990s Britain halted the relative declines in GDP per capita and labour productivity that had …
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. To understand how these changing firm demographics have affected growth, we decompose productivity growth into the firms …
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In this paper, we examine the sources of the productivity growth in the U.S. computer industry from 1978 to 1999. We … and product innovations. Based on the estimation results, we decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth rate into …
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20 years, analyzing its impact on consumers' welfare, the monopoly's profitability and its productivity. Though the …
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