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We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US … greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker size-management relationship compared to the US, particularly in the highly …
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In addition to firm and industry characteristics, the heterogeneity of foreign direct investment (FDI) has to be taken …
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Even though the automobile industry is technologically advanced, the increasing integration of low-income countries into the global division of labor has put competitive pressure on traditional automobile producing countries. New end-producers emerged in Asia, Latin America as well as Southern...
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This paper tests for the importance of cash flow on investment in fixed capital and R&D using firm-level panel data in … investment or R&D. In identical pecifications for British firms, cash flow is informative about investment, although not about … the level of R&D spending conditional on the R&D participation decision. In the UK, we also find that investment is less …
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Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are mediated through employee decision-making and...
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