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Pyramid capitalism : cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt
Diwan, Ishac; Keefer, Philip; Schiffbauer, Marc - 2016
Using a large, original database of 385 politically connected firms under the Mubarak regime in Egypt, we document for the first time the negative impact of cronyism on economic growth. In the early 2000s, a policy shift in Egypt led to the expansion of crony activities into new, previously...
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Automation, Performance and International Competition: Firm-level Comparisons of Process Innovation
Kromann, Lene; Sørensen, Anders - 2015
productivity growth than other firms. Moreover, automation improves the efficiency of all stages of the production process by … reducing setup time, run time, and inspection time and increasing uptime and quantity produced per worker. The efficiency …
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Production efficiency of firms with mergers and acquisitions in India
Saraswathy, Beena - 2015
Most often, the competition authorities approve combinations based on the tradeoff between the expected efficiency … efficiency gains are actually achieved by the firms entering into consolidation in India, which experienced large number of … efficiency of the firms involved in mergers and acquisitions, separately for cross-border and domestic deals. …
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What explains the productivity decline in manufacturing in the nineties in India?
Ray, Saon - 2014
productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … efficiency change using a Tobit regression for each industry. The results reveal that TFPG declined for all the sectors during … the period. The most significant factor affecting efficiency change, technical change and productivity growth is RD …
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Does ownership affect firms' efficiency? : panel data evidence in Italy
Bottasso, Anna; Sembenelli, Alessandro - 2002
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Addressing new service sectors in WTO/FTAs : express delivery and India
Mukherjee, Arpita; Pal, Parthapratim; Goswami, Ramneet - 2010
core issues for India is that domestic regulation of postal services is evolving. India Post offers courier/EDS services …. The Department of Posts is in the process of framing a new regulation that is likely to affect the courier/EDS industry …. Based on a primary survey, this study found that the regulation should be transparent and fair; it should clearly define the …
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Combined effects of load factors and booking time on fares : insights from the yield management of a low-cost airline
Alderighi, Marco; Nicolini, Marcella; Piga, Claudio A. - 2012
Based on two strands of theoretical research, this paper provides new evidence on how fares are jointly affected by in-flight seat availability and purchasing date. As capacity-driven theories predict, it emerges that fares monotonically and substantially increase with the flights occupancy...
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The effects of terror on international air passenger transport : an empirical investigation
Mitra, Devashish; Pham, Cong S.; Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2017
This paper presents a theoretical model (adapted from the structural gravity model by Anderson and van Wincoop, 2003) to capture the effects of terrorism on air passenger traffic between nations affected by terrorism. We then use equations derived from this model, in conjunction with alternative...
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Evidence on the Impact of Education on Innovation and Productivity
Junge, Martin; Severgnini, Battista; Sørensen, Anders - 2012
This paper investigates the importance of the educational mix of employees at the rm level for the probability of rms being involved in innovation activities. We distinguish between four types of innovation: product, process, organisational, and marketing innovation. Moreover, we consider three...
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The employment potential of labor intensive industries on India's organized manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Wadhwa, Deepika; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for...
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