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Linking social system failures : a short note on marriage and firm failure
Zanger, Ingmar; Padhi, Sidhartha S.; Wagner, Stephan M. - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 3 (2018) 1, pp. 40-43
This study examined social system failures and sought to identify a plausible mechanism behind these failures. Stretched exponential distributions were observed for failure of marriages in the US, UK, and Germany. In addition, the study provides evidence of power laws in the failure of large...
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The endogeneity-to-demand of the national emergency utilization rate
Nikiforos, Michalis - 2021
The paper provides an empirical discussion of the national emergency utilization rate (NEUR), which is based on a "national emergency" definition of potential output and is published by the US Census Bureau. Over the peak-to-peak period 1989-2019, the NEUR decreased by 14.2 percent. The paper...
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Notes on the accumulation and utilization of capital : some empirical issues
Nikiforos, Michalis - 2020
This paper discusses some issues related to the triangle between capital accumulation, distribution, and capacity …
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Chapter 26 Agent-Based Models of Organizations
Chang, Myong-Hun; Harrington, Joseph E. - In: Handbook of computational economics : volume 2, …, (pp. 1273-1337). 2006
The agent-based approach views an organization as a collection of agents, interacting with one another in their pursuit of assigned tasks. The performance of an organization in this framework is determined by the formal and informal structures of interactions among agents, which define the lines...
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Technical changes in economic development : selected issues in the context of Austrian economics
Ciborowski, Robert - In: Mengerian economics, (pp. 141-154). 2023
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The new economy - what is really new?
Siebert, Horst - 2000
of productivity, to a larger production potential and to a higher growth rate. The new economy has implications for …
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Competition and educational productivity : incentives writ large
MacLeod, William Bentley; Urquiola Soux, Miguel - 2012
to higher school productivity. We discuss the evidence in this area, concluding that the impact of competition has proven …
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Firm Level Productivity, Risk, and Return
Imrohoroglu, Ayse - 2013
This paper provides new evidence about the link between firm level total factor productivity (TFP) and stock returns … market ratio, investment, and hiring rate. Low productivity firms earn a significant premium over high productivity firms in …
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Is Aggregate Market Power Increasing? Production Trends Using Financial Statements
Traina, James - 2018
Recent work in macroeconomics argues that firm market power dramatically increased since the 1980s. Using financial statement data, I find that public firm markups increased only modestly over this time period, and are within historical variation. These estimates improve on earlier work by...
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The Middle Productivity Trap : Dynamics of Productivity Dispersion
Bahar, Dany - 2018
Using a worldwide firm-level panel dataset I document a "U-shaped" relationship between productivity growth and … baseline levels within each country and industry. That is, fast productivity growth is concentrated at both ends of the … productivity distribution. This result serves as a potential explanation to two stylized facts documented in the economic …
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