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Deciphering the effects of agglomeration economies on firms' productive efficiency
Skuras, Dimitrios; Tsekouras, Kostas; Dimara, Efthalia - 2011
The present work assess the effects of MAR and Jacob's type agglomeration economies on a sample of firms in the machineries and textiles industries in Greece for the periods 1989-91 and 1999-01. The analysis employs a stochastic production frontier function and allows agglomeration economies to...
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Agricultural productivity and off-farm labor decisions by heads and spouses in Nicaragua : a semiparametric analysis using panel data
Almeida, Alexandre Nunes de; Bravo-Ureta, Boris E. - 2011
their spouses play a major role in the supply of labor to off-farm activities. When the marginal productivity of …
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Public subsidies, TFP and Efficiency : a tale of complex relationships
Bernini, Cristina; Cerqua, Augusto; Pellegrini, Guido - 2015
The paper analyses the causal effect of capital subsidies on firms' efficiency and productivity by exploiting the … evolves over time, enabling to decompose productivity changes into the change in technical efficiency (i.e., measuring the …
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The impact of production and infrastructure shocks : a non-linear input-output programming approach, tested on an hypothetical economy
Oosterhaven, Jan; Bouwmeester, Maaike C.; Nozaki, Michiya - 2014
This paper develops a methodology to predict and to thus possibly mitigate the economic impacts of major catastrophes, such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The short-run impacts are assumed to be determined by the attempts of economic actors to return to the pre-catastrophe economic situation as...
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Microeconomic uncertainty, international trade, and aggregate fluctuations
Alessandria, George; Choi, Horag; Kaboski, Joseph Paul; … - In: Journal of monetary economics 69 (2015), pp. 20-38
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Cross-sector misallocation with sector-specific distortions
Leal, Julio - In: Papers and proceedings of the Annual Bank Conference on …, (pp. 42-56). 2016
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Sources of inefficiency in healthcare and education
Chandra, Amitabh; Staiger, Douglas - In: The American economic review 106 (2016) 5, pp. 383-387
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Metafrontier cost Malmquist productivity index : an application to Taiwanese and Chinese commercial banks
Huang, Mei-ying; Juo, Jia-Ching; Fu, Tsu-tan - In: Journal of productivity analysis 44 (2015) 3, pp. 321-335
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Export market exit and firm survival : theory and first evidence
Kruse-Becher, Sanne; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; … - In: Globalization : strategies and effects, (pp. 183-205). 2017
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Modeling the growth effects of regional knowledge production : the GMR-Europe model and its applications for EU Framework Program policy impact simulations
Varga, Attila; Járosi, Péter; Sebestyén, Tamás - 2011
This paper introduces the Geographic Macro and Regional (GMR) model for NUTS-2 regions of the Euro zone. This model consists of three blocks: the TFP, the SCGE and the MACRO blocks. The model is built for impact analysis of policies targeting intangible assets in the forms of R&D, human capital...
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