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This paper analyzes microeconomic production functions of Czech small medium enterprises. We use the data from 2002 to … production process. Our results demonstrate that Czech SME depend in their functioning more on labour than on capital. The impact …
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model in which domestic and foreign investment interact in two important ways. First, the MNC's production technology allows … from Canadian MNCs that invest solely in the United States. Our estimtes support the view that production and adjustment …
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considered as a measure of this objective and, in turn, as a measure of productivity in relation to the production process in … which the journals are involved. In order to assess this production process, in this paper econometric models using data … distance between the actual production of the journals and their estimated maximum achievable number of citations based on …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine production decisions under output price uncertainty. Using a nonparametric … examine the importance of higher moments in the firm's production decisions and to investigate underlying attitudes toward …
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analysis is a stochastic production frontier model with labour and capital as input factors. The results show that a model of … technical inefficiency is favoured compared to a case where we assume different production functions in East and West Germany …
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"In this paper, stochastic production frontier models are estimated with IAB establishment data from waves 2002 and …
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In this paper we study the determinants of investment decisions at the firm level with heterogeneous capital goods. We exploit a newly developed panel dataset of small and medium-sized firms which allows us to distinguish between purchases, sales, and net acquisitions of capital goods. We...
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Learning-by-exporting proponents argue that exporting increases productivity by exposing producers to new technologies or through product quality upgrading. This study is based on the observation that the technological superiority and severity of product quality requirements are not the same in...
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applying a deterministic frontier production function with firmspecific fixed effects. A new measure is also introduced for …
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Production capital and technology, fundamental to understanding output and productivity growth, are unobserved except … dynamic economic model of a representative production firm and using the estimated model to compute Kalman-filtered estimates …
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