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Driving factors of growth in Hungary - a decomposition exercise
Kátay, Gábor; Wolf, Zoltán - 2008
Applications tend to ignore that measured TFP reflects the variation of output that cannot be explained by changes in inputs. Such a change is not necessarily technological, so measured TFP differences across firms are an amalgam of technological, efficiency and other differences in attributes,...
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Financial constraints and capacity adjustment in the United Kingdom: Evidence from a large panel of survey data
von Kalckreuth, Ulf; Murphy, Emma - 2005
The interrelationship between financial constraints and firm activity is a hotly debated issue. The way firms cope with financial constraints is fundamental to the analysis of monetary transmission, of financial stability and of growth and development. The CBI Industrial Trends Survey contains...
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Financing constraints, firm level adjustment of capital and aggregate implications
von Kalckreuth, Ulf - 2008
Following a positive shock, financing constraints will prolong or impede economic expansion that would have been optimal in an unconstrained environment. The study of dynamic adjustment therefore offers a direct way of verifying the presence of financing constraints and assessing their...
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Capacity utilisation, constraints and price adjustments under the Microscope
Lein, Sarah M.; Köberl, Eva - 2009
This paper analyses the interplay of capacity utilisation, capacity constraints, demand constraints and price adjustments, employing a unique firm-level data set for Swiss manufacturing firms. Theoretically, capacity constraints limit the ability of firms to expand production in the short run...
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Effects of Financial Market Imperfections on Indian Firms' Exporting Behavior
Ito, Hiro; Terada-Hagiwara, Akiko - 2011
Using data from more than 6,000 manufacturing firms in India for 1996–2008, we investigate the impact of financial … India still does not allow the financial system to meet the stronger demand for funds by firms, especially small ones …
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The Cost Competitiveness of Manufacturing in China and India: An Industry and Regional Perspective
van Ark, Bart - 2008
manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …
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Identifying High Growth Firms in India: An Alternative Approach
Aggarwal, Aradhna; Sato, Takahiro - 2015
Over the past two decades, considerable interest has grown in high growth firms (HGFs). However, the concept of HGFs still remains controversial. One of the most controversial issues is size and age of these firms. The present study argues that the current literature on HGFs may offer little...
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Gesamtwirtschaftliche Kapazitätsauslastung sinkt
Wohlrabe, Klaus; Wollmershäuser, Timo - In: ifo Schnelldienst 72 (2019) 04, pp. 71
Die ifo Kapazitätsauslastung der Gesamtwirtschaft ist im Januar 2019 auf 88,3% gesunken. Dies ergab eine Auswertung von ca. 7 000 Meldungen von Unternehmen im Rahmen der ifo Konjunkturumfragen. Nach dem konjunkturellen Boom kühlt sich die deutsche Wirtschaft ab und befindet sich am Beginn...
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Die ifo Kapazitätsauslastung - ein gleichlaufender Indikator der deutschen Industriekonjunktur
Abberger, Klaus; Nierhaus, Wolfgang - In: ifo Schnelldienst 61 (2008) 16, pp. 15-23
In der modernen Konjunkturtheorie sind Konjunkturzyklen als Schwankungen des Auslastungsgrades des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Produktionspotentials definiert. Das ifo Institut veröffentlicht im Rahmen des ifo Konjunkturtests originäre vierteljährliche Daten über die Kapazitätsauslastung im...
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Incentivizing demand for supply-constrained care: Institutional birth in India
Andrew, Alison; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - 2020
. We study a conditional cash transfer program (JSY) in India that paid women to give birth in medical facilities. We find …
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