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This paper examines executive turnover -- both for management and supervisory boards - - and its relation to firm performance in the largest companies in Germany in the 1980s. The management board turns over slowly -- at a rate of 10% per year -- implying that top executives in Germany have...
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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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productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). We use comprehensive … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … productivity gains during the overall 20-year period from 1985 to 2004 were driven largely by improvements in average productivity …
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Within-industry differences in measured plant-level productivity are large. A large literature has been devoted to … classification and regression trees. We use our imputations and the Bureau's imputations to estimate within-industry productivity … dispersions. The results suggest that there is more within-industry productivity dispersion than previous research has indicated …
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We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …
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to firm innovative performance and to its productivity. The impacts of adoption of the four surveyed KM practices on firm … innovative and productivity performance are not completely accounted by firm size, industry, research & development (R&D) efforts …
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) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the … productivity measures. If prices reflect idiosyncratic demand or market power shifts, high "productivity" businesses may not be … selection and productivity growth using data from industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately …
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Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically presents a challenge due to the endogeneity of ownership structures. We develop and test an empirical framework which allows us to separate selection from treatment effects of large...
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We document that ownership by officers and directors of publicly-traded firms is on average higher today than earlier in the century. Managerial ownership rises from 13 percent for the universe of exchange-listed corporations in 1935, the earliest year for which such data exist, to 21 percent in...
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We determine firms' equity ownership structures and provide a theory of hostile takeovers by distinguishing the roles of two types of blockholders: rich investors and institutional investors. We also distinguish the roles of two types of stock markets: the block market and the market with small...
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