Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 490
Cover Image
Management and Misallocation in Mexico
Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938686
Cover Image
Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?
Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794618
Cover Image
Centers of Gravity : The Effect of Stable Shared Leadership in Top Management Teams on Firm Growth and Industry Evolution
Agarwal, Rajshree - 2018
We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452978
Cover Image
Foreign Owners and Plant Survival
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2003
down production. This paper asks whether foreign owners are more likely to close plants than domestic owners. In Indonesia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468657
Cover Image
Bequests as Signals : An Explanation for the Equal Division Puzzle
Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2000
In the United States, more than two-thirds of decedents with multichild families divide their estates exactly equally among their children. In contrast, intra vivos gifts are usually unequal. These findings challenge the validity of existing theories regarding the determination of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470959
Cover Image
Testing Parental Altruism : Implications of a Dynamic Model
McGarry, Kathleen - 2000
Each year parents transfer a great deal of money to their adult children. While intuition might suggest that these transfers are altruistic and made out of concern for the well-being of the children, the fundamental prediction of the altruistic model has been decisively rejected in empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471176
Cover Image
Fertility, Migration, and Altruism
Berman, Eli - 2000
intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be self-selected on fertility. Soviet Jews who migrate to Israel despite high migration …. Selection on altruism can explain why historically immigrant-absorbing countries like the U.S. have higher fertility than other …. Selection on altruism also implies that immigrant-absorbing regions will grow faster, or have higher per capita income, or both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471230
Cover Image
Forward and Backward Intergenerational Goods : A Theory of Intergenerational Exchange
Rangel, Antonio - 2000
-dynastic altruism. The main building blocks of the theory are forward and backward intergenerational goods (FIGs and BIGs) and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471256
Cover Image
Are Americans More Altruistic than the Japanese? A U.S.-Japan Comparison of Saving and Bequest Motives
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2000
.S., (2) that the altruism model is far more applicable in the U.S. than it is in Japan but that it is not the dominant model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471313
Cover Image
Preferences for Giving Versus Preferences for Redistribution
Mollerstrom, Johanna; Strulov-Shlain, Avner; Taubinsky, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We report the results of an online experiment studying preferences for giving and preferences for group-wide redistribution in small (4-person) and large (200-person) groups. We find that the desire to engage in voluntary giving decreases significantly with group size. However, voting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660053