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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity using Information from Firm-Level Data

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltan - 2009

This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...

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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity Using Information from Firm-Level Data

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2017

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A meta-analysis of the total economic impact of climate change

Tol, Richard S.J. - 2022

Earlier meta-analyses of the economic impact of climate change are updated with more data, with three new results: (1) The central estimate of the economic impact of global warming is always negative. (2) The confidence interval about the estimates is much wider. (3) Elicitation methods are most...

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Productivity Gains from Offshoring: an Empirical Analysis for the Netherlands

den Butter, Frank A.G.; Pattipeilohy, Christiaan - 2007

A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs, using a recent theory on trade in tasks. A production...

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Disciplining and Screening Top Executives

Martinez, Silvia Dominguez; Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2006

Boards of directors face the twin task of disciplining and screening executives. To perform these tasks directors do not have detailed information about executives' behaviour, and only infrequently have information about the success or failure of initiated strategies, reorganizations, mergers...

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Cycles and Multiple Equilibria in the Market for Durable Lemons

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Karamychev, Vladimir - 2000

We investigate the nature of market failure in a dynamic version ofAkerlof (1970) where identicalcohorts of a durable good enter the market over time. In the dynamicmodel, equilibria withqualitatively different properties emerge. Typically, in equilibriaof the dynamic model, sellerswith higher...

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Continuous Time Trading in Markets with Adverse Selection

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Karamychev, Vladimir - 2000

We investigate the nature of the adverse selection problem in a market for adurable goodwhere trading and entry of new …

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Financial Intermediation and Entry Deterrence

Jain, Neelam; Jeitschko, Thomas D.; Mirman, Leonard J. - 2001

market decisions in the face of the threat of entry, in a dynamic model.The main results of the paper are: there exists a … threat of entry; andthere are parameter values for which the bank makes more profits with the threat of entry thanwithout. …

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Modelling Entrepreneurship

Bosma, Niels; de Wit, Gerrit; Carree, Martin - 2003

by both high entry and high exit rates. …

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Investor Protection and Entry

Perotti, Enrico; Volpin, Paolo - 2007

Entry requires external finance, especially for less wealthy entrepreneurs, so poor investor protection limits … voters. In a broad cross-section of countries and industries, we find that (i) entry rates and the total number of producers … accountable political institutions have better investor protection and lower entry costs. We also find that investor protection is …

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