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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...
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Dynamic Olley-Pakes Productivity Decomposition with Entry and Exit
Melitz, Marc J. - 2014
In this paper, we propose an extension of the productivity decomposition method developed by Olley & Pakes (1996). This extension provides an accounting for the contributions of both firm entry and exit to aggregate productivity changes. It breaks down the contribution of surviving firms into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065931
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A Note on Detecting Learning by Exporting
De Loecker, Jan - 2014
Learning by exporting refers to the mechanism whereby firms improve their performance (productivity) after entering export markets. Although this mechanism is often mentioned in policy documents, a significant share of econometric studies has not found evidence for this hypothesis. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068993
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Exporting and Performance of Plants : Evidence from Korean Manufacturing
Hahn, Chinhee - 2021
This study examines the relationship between exporting and various performance measures including total factor productivity, using the annual plant-level panel data on Korean manufacturing sector during the period of 1990 to 1998. The two key questions examined are whether exporting improves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226951
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An Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania
Comin, Diego A. - 2012
Tourism is a tradable service activity that could allow some African countries to generate significant growth. Tanzania …, Tanzania receives very few tourists and revenues from tourism. To explore the determinants of this performance, I conduct an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109446
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Unintended Consequences from Nested State & Federal Regulations : the Case of the Pavley Greenhouse-Gas-Per-Mile Limits
Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2009
Fourteen U.S. states recently pledged to adopt limits on greenhouse gases (GHGs) per mile of light-duty automobiles. Previous analyses predicted this action would significantly reduce emissions from new cars in these states, but ignored possible offsetting emissions increases from policy-induced...
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Fluctuations in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820 to 2000
Dupont, Brandon - 2010
There were substantial fluctuations in the numbers of American overseas travelers, especially before World War II. These fluctuations in travel around the robust, long term upward trend are the focus of this paper. We first identify those fluctuations in the raw data and then try to explain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757617
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The American Invasion of Europe : The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000
Dupont, Brandon - 2010
Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also …'s establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this paper we investigate the long term rise in overseas travel by … as mass tourism. We document this rise by compiling a long term series on overseas travel, and describe the changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759330
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Long Workweeks and Strange Hours
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2014
American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from 5 other countries. Adjusting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047783
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Tourism and Economic Development : Evidence from Mexico's Coastline
Faber, Benjamin - 2016
Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican … consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains … regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect …
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