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We analyze how intermittent large expenditures on family ceremonies may affect an entrepreneur's investment decision in an informal enterprise. Our hypothesis is that the barrier between family and enterprise is thin and permeable. We test this hypothesis using a survey from Sénégal that...
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Female-run firms are less likely to be exporters although they exert positive influence in various aspects in an economy … and society. With a new and comprehensive data set on manufacturing plants, I investigate the exporter productivity … premium of female-run firms in Germany. The results show that female-run firms gain a higher exporter-productivity premium than …
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Female-run firms are less likely to be exporters although they exert positive influence in various aspects in an economy … and society. With a new and comprehensive data set on manufacturing plants, I investigate the exporter productivity … premium of female-run firms in Germany. The results show that female-run firms gain a higher exporter-productivity premium than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871872
Established findings suggest that strategic inventory may alleviate double marginalization and improve the efficiency of a decentralized distribution channel. In this paper, we examine the effect of strategic inventory in the presence of chain-to-chain competition. We show that as the...
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In this paper, we study a new channel to explain firms' price setting behavior. We propose that uncertainty about … factor prices has a positive effect on markups. We show theoretically that firms with higher shares of inputs with volatile … prices set higher markups. We use the Bartik shift-share approach to empirically test whether firms which use more oil …
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in the Swedish manufacturing sector 1985-1995. The skill-bias is further corroborated: it is confirmed although the …
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This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions … relationship on a new set of data and we are able to show that once accounted for productivity differences among firms, size still …
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This paper develops a model of endogenous product selection by firms. The theory is motivated by new evidence we … present on the importance of product switching by U.S. manufacturers. Two-thirds of continuing firms change their product mix … theoretical model incorporates heterogeneous firms, heterogeneous products, and ongoing entry and exit. In equilibrium, firm …
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considerable attention in the literature, one relatively unexplored aspect has to do with the saving patterns of workers and firms … possible to analyze the effects of highly debated formalization policies on wealth redistribution and promotion of saving and …
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We model an urban labour market in a developing economy, incorporating workers’ risk attitudes. Trade-offs between risk aversion and ability determine worker allocation across formal and informal wage employment, and voluntary and involuntary self employment. Greater risk of informal wage...
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