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Does wage bonus positively impact the economy?
Le Van, Cuong; Nguyen To-The - In: Fulbright review of economics and policy 1 (2021) 1, pp. 21-31
Purpose: Total factor productivity (TFP), for a country and for a firm as well, is a crucial element for economic … growth by inducing high output. Actually, workers' effort is among the important factors that positively influence the TFP … is an incentive mechanism and plays a role in the TFP as is shown in a recent paper by Le Van and Pham (2021). The firm …
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Impact of Monetary Policy on Economic Growth in Nigeria : The Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) Approach
Adesanya, Babatunde; Ogakwu, Julius Ogbaji - 2022
This study examined the impact of monetary policy on economic growth in Nigeria. The secondary data used include the Money supply, economic growth, Credit to the private sector, Interest rate and Exchange rate. The Vector Error Correction model (VECM) was adopted as the estimation technique of...
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The Economic Impact of Healthcare Quality
Helsø, Anne-Line Koch - 2019
We study the costs of hospitalizations on patients' earnings and labor supply, using the universe of hospital admissions in Denmark and full-population tax data. We evaluate the quality of treatment based on its ability to mitigate the labor market consequences of a given diagnosis and propose a...
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Committing to Grow : Privatizations and Firm Dynamics in East Germany
Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Diegmann, André; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The policy required new owners of the firms to commit to employment targets, with penalties for non-compliance. Using a dynamic model, we...
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Propellers of Agricultural Productivity in India
Rada, Nicholas - 2016
factor productivity (TFP) growth and evaluate how public policies affected TFP from 1980 to 2008. During this period …, substantial regional differences in TFP growth emerged: the Indian West and South achieved faster TFP growth than the rest of the … country, largely due to rapid growth in horticulture and animal products. Of the policies hypothesized to stimulate TFP, India …
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The Unequal Effects of Liberalization : Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India
Aghion, Philippe; Burgess, Robin; Redding, Stephen J.; … - 2007
We study whether the effects on registered manufacturing output of dismantling the License Raj - a system of central controls regulating entry and production activity in this sector - vary across Indian states with different labor market regulations. The effects are found to be unequal across...
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The effects of cross-border acquisitions on firms' productivity in the EU
Gregori, Wildmer Daniel; Cillero, Maria Martinez; … - 2021 - This version: June 2021
This study empirically investigates the extent to which firms in the European Union, once acquired through a cross-border acquisition, show different productivity levels as compared to those firms that have not been acquired. Our identification strategy relies on the combination of Propensity...
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Dynamic activity analysis model based win-win development forecasting under the environmental regulation in China
Shiyi, Chen; Härdle, Wolfgang - 2012
Porter Hypothesis states that environmental regulation may lead to win-win opportunities, that is, improve the productivity and reduce the undesirable output simultaneously. Based on directional distance function, this paper proposes a novel dynamic activity analysis model to forecast the...
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The Effects of Public Capital on the Productivity of the Italian Regions
Marrocu, Emanuela - 2011
This article investigates the role played by public capital in increasing the productivity levels in Italy. For construction of the regional series for the public capital stock over the period 1996 to 2003, the study benefits from the use of the rich dataset on public expenditure, recently...
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The Economic Impacts of Telecommunications Networks and Broadband Internet : A Survey
Bertschek, Irene - 2016
We provide a structured overview of the quantitative literature on the economic impacts of telecommunications networks and broadband internet. Differentiating between wireline and wireless technologies as well as broadband availability and broadband adoption, respectively, we review studies...
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