This research assesses the firm-specific reasons for lower productivity levels between West and East German firms. The … management-deficits as the main firm-specific determinants of productivity gaps between West and East German firms …

probability distributions over own-firm outcomes at a one-year lookahead horizon. Our Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU) began … full range of firm sizes. We use SBU data to measure expected future outcomes for the growth of sales, employment, and … investment for each firm and the uncertainty surrounding those expectations. Mean expectations are highly predictive of realized …

probability distributions over own-firm outcomes at a one-year lookahead horizon. Our Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU) began … full range of firm sizes. We use SBU data to measure expected future outcomes for the growth of sales, employment, and … investment for each firm and the uncertainty surrounding those expectations. Mean expectations are highly predictive of realized …

We elicit subjective probability distributions from business executives about their own firm outcomes at a one …,750 firms drawn from all 50 states, every major nonfarm industry, and a range of firm sizes. We find three key results. First …, firm-level growth expectations are highly predictive of realized growth rates. Second, subjective uncertainty is highly …

state." In the capture economy, the policy and legal environment is shaped to the captor firm`s huge advantage, at the … new firm-level data from the 1999 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS), which permits the … benefits for the firm. The focus of reform should be shifted toward channeling firms' strategies in the direction of more …

is likely to over-emphasize technology-based adjustments. -- immigration ; endogenous technological change ; firm …