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Total factor productivity in South African manufacturing firms
Kreuser, Friedrich; Newman, Carol - 2016
The manufacturing sector is an important source of productivity growth and exports. Manufacturing firms are generally more productive than firms in the agricultural or services sectors and are an important source of job creation. Little is known about the productivity performance of the sector...
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Baumol's cost-disease, efficiency, and productivity in the performing arts : an analysis of German public theaters
Last, Anne-Kathrin; Wetzel, Heike - 2010
influence on productivity can be compensated by efficiency gains. The findings indicate an increase in real unit labor cost as a … observed for the majority of the theaters which implies that significant efficiency gains can be realized by the exploitation …-disease ; efficiency ; stochastic frontier analysis …
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Efficiency of hospitals in the Czech Republic
Procházková, Jana; Št̕astná, Lenka - 2011
The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001-2008 using Stochastic …. -- Efficiency ; hospitals ; stochastic frontier analysis …
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TFP growth in old and new Europe
Burda, Michael C.; Severgnini, Battista - 2009
Using Solow-Törnqvist residuals as well as two alternative measurements, we present estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in a sample of 30 European economies for the period 1994-2005. In most of Western Europe, we find a deceleration of TFP growth since 2000. However, the...
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Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
McGoldrick, Peter; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2021
Institutional change has taken place gradually since 1978 for State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in the Industrial Sector of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital and operate on international markets) on the productivity...
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Driving factors of growth in Hungary - a decomposition exercise
Kátay, Gábor (contributor); Wolf, Zoltán (contributor) - 2008
technological, efficiency and other differences in attributes, which calls for further refinement in the treatment of TFP. To …
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Estimating Returns to Capital and Ability : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Wong, Po Yin - 2017
This paper estimates economic returns to physical capital and inherent ability among Indonesian fishermen using a natural experiment. By exploiting the quasi-random variation in the length of fishing boats generated by an aid program among survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, it is found...
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The impact of Dieselgate on the required rate of return on equity of VW, BMW and DAIMLER
Čižinská, Romana; Matějková, Pavlína; Neset, Pavel - In: Financial internet quarterly 17 (2021) 1, pp. 8-18
Our paper studies the impacts of the Dieselgate scandal on the required rate of return on equity investments into VW, Daimler, and BMW. The object of investigation is the beta coefficient that determines the risk premium in the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Our research takes a deep dive...
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Forecasting profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - 2013
We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
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Creative Destruction and Transition : The Effects of Firm Entry and Exit on Productivity Growth in Estonia
Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - 2021
This paper presents one of the first studies of firm demographics in Estonia, particularly, on the processes of firm entry and exit as well as survival analysis of new firms. Also decompositions of productivity change into components consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and...
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