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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance?
Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - 2008
We analyse a large stratified random sample of firms that provide measures of each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints. Specifically, we use the 2005 and 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476563
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Does Capital Market Myopia Affect Plant Productivity? Evidence from Going Private Transactions
Dittmar, Amy - 2010
to improve their establishment level productivity relative to a peer control groups of firms. We find no evidence that … productivity after going private, there is little evidence of difference-in-differences efficiency gains relative to peer groups of … peer groups. Our findings cast doubt on the view that public markets cause listed firms to make sub-optimal, productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476643
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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - 2007
Abstract: We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476928
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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
Svejnar, Jan - 2007
We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476938
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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - 2007
We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476939
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Carbon mitigation potential and costs of forestry options in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines and Tanzania
Sathaye, J.; Makundi, W.; Andrasko, K.; Boer, R.; … - 2009
This paper summarizes studies of carbon (C) mitigation potential and costs of about 40 forestry options in seven developing countries. Each study uses the same methodological approach - Comprehensive Mitigation Assessment Process (COMAP) - to estimate the above parameters between 2000 and 2030....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437412
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On productivity performance gains of Indonesian firms
Viverita,; Ariff, Mohamed - 2008
analysis of other firms, e.g. Islamic banks in Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach – The paper applies Malmquist data … and revisits policy implications. Practical implications – No one policy fits all in Indonesia for privatization programme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441700
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Ownership Versus Environment: Why are Public Sector Firms Inefficient?
Bartel, Ann P.; Harrison, Ann E. - 1999
firms in Indonesia. We consider two leading hypotheses: (1) public sector enterprises are inefficient due to agency … productivity by 23 percentage points. Even without privatization, however, eliminating soft loans could raise total factor … productivity by 8 to 9 percentage points. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477029
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Indonesian agricultural trade policy at the crossroads
Oktaviani, Rina; Rakjman Setyoko, Nur; Vanzetti, David - 2010
Following the global spike in food prices in 2008, there is renewed interest in Indonesia in self-sufficiency as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446033
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The costs of stopping deforestation in PNG and Indonesia
Hunt, Colin - 2010
Even though deforestation in tropical developing countries releases large quantities of greenhouse gases, the Kyoto Protocol does not include mechanisms for forest conservation. Nevertheless, deforestation and forest degradation has now taken centre-stage as the developed countries, having...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448621