This paper considers the falsification of financial reports at Russian manufacturing enterprises in the period from 2012 to 2019. The factors are associated with the heterogeneity of estimates of falsified financial statements. We investigate the evolution of such reporting during the period...

The study examines US-European productivity and worker attitude differences, focusing on changes in incentive structures. We analyze productivity and worker attitudes in five plants in the UK and US belonging to the same multinational producer of automotive sensors and actuators. We examine the...

Ugandan micro- and small enterprises (MSEs) still perform poorly. The paper utilizes data collected in Uganda in March and April 2003 to analyze the business constraints faced by these MSEs. Using a stratified random sampling, a sample of 265 MSEs were interviewed. The study focuses on the 105...

The objective of this study is to analyse the response capacity of Turkish manufacturing industry to growing international competition from low-wage countries and to real exchange rate fluctuations. To analyse these competitive pressures and the responses of enterprises, developments in profit...

Este artículo es una extensión del trabajo de Martin (2003) que intenta estimar si las empresas emplean, estratégicamente, la deuda para limitar la entrada de potenciales rivales. Usando el Método Generalizado de Momentos (GMM), se evalúa el efecto que tienen los activos específicos, la...

Bu makalede Türkiye’de LCD televizyon fiyatlarını belirleyen faktörler ve firmalar arası fiyat farklılıkları incelenmiştir. Çalışma sonuçlarına göre ekran genişliği, çözünürlük, kontrast oranı, parlaklık ve PC sinyal algılama niteliği LCD televizyonların...

Después de la apertura de la economía mexicana, la industria manufacturera se ha caracterizado por su elevada heterogeneidad, con sectores que son competitivos a nivel nacional e internacional y sectores que han quedado rezagados. En este artículo, argumentamos que la diferencia entre ambos...

What type of businesses do unions target for organizing and when? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity, and decides which ones to organize and when. An...

A key concern about counterfeits and weak intellectual property protection is that they may hamper innovation by displacing legitimate sales. This paper combines a natural policy experiment with randomized lab experiments to estimate the heterogeneous impacts of counterfeiting on the sales and...

In this short research note we investigate the role of diversification in the firm growth process. We build on Penrose’s (1959) Theory of the Growth of the Firm to formulate hypotheses about growth of employment, assets, and sales in the years before, during and after a new product...