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leads to changes in incumbent firms’ productivity. We find that platform use increases labour productivity growth in firms … employment. What is more, productivity gains are greater for small firms and firms in the middle of the productivity distribution … in narrowing productivity gaps among firms. Finally, productivity gains are stronger in more dynamic platform markets …
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consequences of these transformations on firm's productivity, using granular data on firms financial and ownership structure as … major concern from a productivity standpoint: firms displaying higher institutional ownership tend to have higher … productivity levels and growth rates compared to their peers, though the positive relationship tends to vanish when institutional …
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important means for lowering prices and boosting productivity and innovation. This paper reviews the main areas for reform …
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Adequate and well-functioning infrastructure is a key ingredient to growth and well-being. The benefits to activity of efficient spending in energy, water, transport and communication sectors go well beyond their contribution to capital accumulation. Good infrastructure facilitates trade,...
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higher productivity level, larger size, lower indebtedness and higher profitability are associated with longer duration of …
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recession Estonia’s gap in income and productivity levels compared with the EU average was still around 30% and as the country … closing the productivity gap in the manufacturing-for-export sector compared with other transition countries would serve as a …
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This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in … product market regulation measures depending on firms' positions along the global distribution of productivity levels. The … heterogeneous effects of international competition and domestic product market regulation on firm-level productivity growth are …
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as well as their broader impacts on productivity via reallocation, relying on a simulation model and econometric … productivity levels over the medium-term. Results suggest that, over the 2007-2018 period, increases in large-scale loan guarantee … schemes were associated with weaker reallocation of credit and labour from low to high productivity firms. However, these …
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Covid-19 and the associated restrictions on interaction have led to an unprecedented shock to activity and firms’ balance sheets. To assess the impact, this paper applies a new large-scale firm-level simulation model calibrated to the United Kingdom (UK). The paper specifically examines the...
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This paper develops a new large-scale firm-level simulation model, the Corporate Sector Agent-Based (CAB) Model, which is applied to analyse the COVID-19 shock and policy options in Barnes, Hillman, MacDonald and Wharf (2021). Agent-based models (ABMs) simulate the interaction of autonomous...
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