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for plant size and productivity, we find that foreign plants are significantly more likely to close than comparable …
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sector ownership has no independent impact on productivity growth. The finding that ownership per se does not matter, but …
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care productivity, we analyze longitudinal data on the medical expenditures and health outcomes of the vast majority of …-profit hospitals have important spillover benefits for medical productivity …
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end-of-period stocks. We also derive measures of productivity and capacity utilization for the adopted modeling framework …
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For the first four decades of its existence the U.S. nuclear power industry was run by regulated utilities, with most companies owning only one or two reactors. Beginning in the late 1990s electricity markets in many states were deregulated and almost half of the nation's 103 reactors were sold...
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In many countries, unreliable inputs, particularly those lacking storage, can significantly limit a firm's productivity …. We estimate the losses in productivity due to factor-neutral and factor-biased effects of electricity scarcity. Our …. Finally, we find that these productivity changes, while costly to firms, led to small reductions in carbon emissions …
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The electric utility industry is a prime culprit in the U.S. productivity growth slowdown of the last Iwo decades. This …-fueled electric generating capacity over the period 1948-87. Labor productivity and fuel efficiency both advanced rapidly until the … that registered particularly high or low productivity. The interviews reveal many variables and relations that are omitted …
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productivity. Yet most empirical studies find modest short-run effects of power outages on firm performance. This paper builds a … dynamic macroeconomic model to study the long-run general equilibrium effects of power outages on productivity. The model … electricity and the possibility of self-generated electricity at higher cost. Power outages lower productivity in the model by …
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The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...
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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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