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Efficient firm groups: Allocative efficiency in cooperative games

Briec, Walter; Mussard, Stéphane - In: European Journal of Operational Research 239 (2014) 1, pp. 286-296

The concept of efficiency in groups postulates that a coalition of firms has to record a smaller distance toward the aggregate technology frontier compared with the sum of individual distances. Efficiency analysis (either allocative or technical) is defined with respect to cooperative firm game...

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The allocation of talent: finance versus entrepreneurship

Shakhnov, Kirill - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 2014

The rapid growth of the US financial sector has driven policy debate on whether it is socially desirable. I propose a heterogeneous agent model with asymmetric information and matching frictions that produces a tradeoff between finance and entrepreneurship. By becoming bankers, talented...

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Productivity Dynamics and the Role of “Big-Box” Entrants in Retailing

Maican, Florin; Orth, Matilda - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

use a dynamic model to measure the impact of large entrants on productivity, allowing for a controlled productivity …, we find that incumbents' productivity increase after large entry and that the magnitude of the increase declines with the … productivity of incumbents. Our findings highlight that large entrants play a crucial role in driving productivity growth. …

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Evaluating the effect of beauty on labor market outcomes: A review of the literature

Xing, LIU; Eva, SIERMINSKA - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2014

productivity-enhancing channel of transmission and the effect this has on the gender wage gap, as well as on the endogeneity of …

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Distinguishing Neighborhood and Workplace Effects on Individual Productivity: Evidence from Sweden

Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin; Lobo, José - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

We investigate the effects on individuals’ productivity (captured through their wage income) of two social networks in … community most affects an individual’s productivity. We distinguish between individuals engaged in “creative” and “non creative … neighborhoods do matter for individuals’ productivity, although the effect is stronger for noncreatives. For both creatives and …

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The determinants of firm exit in the French food industries

Blanchard, Pierre; Huiban, Jean-Pierre; Mathieu, Claude - In: Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - … 93 (2012) 2, pp. 193-212

A semi-parametric approach is used to estimate firm propensity to exit. The unobserved individual productivity of a …

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Health, productivity, and ageing

Lis, Maciej; Magda, Iga - Instytut Badań Strukturalnych - 2014

We provide a comparative cross-country analysis of individual age-wage proles for different health statuses. Using semi-parametric regressions run on EU-SILC data we aim at answering the question on the relationship b etween individual health and pro ductivity and its changes in the life cycle,...

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Productivity in services twenty years on. A review of conceptual and measurement issues and a way forward

Grassano, Nicola; Savona, Maria - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2014

forward in the conceptualisation of service output, the measurement of service productivity and the account of technical … change in affecting productivity in services that might have occurred. An agenda for both innovation and service scholars is …

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Capital destruction, jobless recoveries, and the discipline device role of unemployment

Riggi, Marianna - Banca d'Italia - 2012

I consider an economy growing along the balanced growth path that is hit by an adverse shock to its capital accumulation process. The model integrates efficiency wages due to imperfect monitoring of the quality of labour in a search and matching framework with methods of dynamic general...

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Evidence on the impact of R&D and ICT investment on innovation and productivity in Italian firms

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - Banca d'Italia - 2012

include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We …

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