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This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at … input quality and worker type. Firm profits increase differentially from high productivity workers, but absenteeism and … and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. …
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trading. Such measures can reduce emissions cost-effectively and create incentives for technological development. There is … been too low to create the incentives necessary to stimulate technological development. This paper empirically analyzes how … the Swedish carbon dioxide tax and the EU ETS have affected productivity development in the Swedish pulp and paper …
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Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this …' careers. At firm level, it features a robust positive correlation with firm productivity, and with managerial turnover leading …
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We study the impact of bank credit supply on firm output and productivity. By exploiting a matched firm-bank database … revenues) for a given level of inputs. Our estimates imply that a credit crunch will be followed by a productivity slowdown, as … account for about a quarter of the observed decline in Italy's total factor productivity growth. The results are robust to an …
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It is well established that management practices have on average a significant and large impact on firm output after controling for a range of standard factors such as other inputs, industry etc. We investigate non-linearities in the impact of management practices on firm performance using...
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We study the impact of bank credit supply on firm output and productivity. By exploiting a matched firm-bank database … revenues) for a given level of inputs. Our estimates imply that a credit crunch will be followed by a productivity slowdown, as … account for about a quarter of the observed decline in Italy's total factor productivity growth. The results are robust to an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923261
consequences of these transformations on firm's productivity, using granular data on firms financial and ownership structure as … major concern from a productivity standpoint: firms displaying higher institutional ownership tend to have higher … productivity levels and growth rates compared to their peers, though the positive relationship tends to vanish when institutional …
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of production and correlations with technical changes are measured by Total Factor Productivity as an expression of … Technical Efficiency to assess Total Factor Productivity …
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unobserved productivity factor on which firms condition the input demand of the observed inputs. Our model of unobserved …
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In this study, we review the studies on the relation between firms' efficiency or profitability and their exit. Although we take it for granted that inefficient or unprofitable firms are more likely to exit, which we call the natural selection hypothesis, some theories predict that it is not...
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