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Taxes, innovation and productivity
Cloyne, James; Martinez, Joseba; Mumtaz, Haroon; … - 2024
temporary cut in corporate income tax rates leads to a long-lasting increase in innovation and productivity, whereas changes in …
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Which factors explain the rising ethnic heterogeneity in Italy? : an empirical analysis at province level
Cattaneo, Cristina - 2014
The paper investigates the determinants of ethnic heterogeneity of the Italian provinces. Among other factors, the paper tests empirically whether gradual improvements in distant communication boost the generation of ethnically heterogeneous provinces. Consequently to easier communication,...
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Information in the first globalization : news agencies and trade
Cotterlaz, Pierre; Fize, Etienne - 2021
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On the distribution of estates and the distribution of wealth : evidence from the dead
Berman, Yonatan; Morelli, Salvatore - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012502508
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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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Innovation and productivity in services and manufacturing : the role of ICT investment
Aboal, Diego; Tacsir, Ezequiel - 2015
Several studies have highlighted information and communications technology (ICT) as a driver of firm productivity in … ultimately affect innovation and productivity in Uruguayan service firms compared to manufacturing firms. The results show that … productivity in services, but only ICT affects productivity in manufacturing. The absence of investment in ICT is associated with …
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What explains the productivity decline in manufacturing in the nineties in India?
Ray, Saon - 2014
This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …
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Integration, resources reallocation and productivity : the cases of Brazil and Chile
Blyde, Juan S.; Iberti, Gonzalo; Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita - 2009
productivity leaving aside other effects that arise through the market selection process. Additionally, most studies have focused … Chile to analyze how trade affects aggregate productivity through the process of resource reallocation and to explore not …
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Returns to higher education in Chile and Colombia
González-Velosa, Carolina; Rucci, Graciana; Sarzosa, Miguel - 2015
In the last decades, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a dramatic increase in the levels of higher education enrollment. Using administrative data from Chile and Colombia, we find that this phenomenon is not always associated with higher private individual returns. In...
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Effects of innovation on employment : an analysis at the firm level in Bolivia
Foronda, Carlos; Beverinotti, Javier - 2021
This study quantifies the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth in Bolivia by using microdata from a survey on innovation conducted in Bolivia in 2016. Following the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse, and Peters (2008) and the adaptations for Latin America of Crespi...
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