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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791421
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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792168
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Corporate performances and market selection. Some comparative evidence
Bottazzi, Giulio; Dosi, Giovanni; Jacoby, Nadia; … - Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola … - 2009
reallocation through an investigation of the productivity-profitability-growth relations at the firm level. Exploiting large panels … profitability differentials, whereas the relationships of corporate growth with either productivity or profitability appear much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008566183
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Trade and Profitability: Is there an export premium? Evidence from Italian manufacturing firms
Grazzi, Marco - Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola … - 2009
shows that, contrary to other performance indicators such as productivity, exporting activity is not systematically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479705
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Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity
Dostie, Benoit; Jayaraman, Rajshri - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry-specific. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233911
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Environmental policy without costs? A review of the Porter hypothesis
Brännlund, Runar; Lundgren, Tommy - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009
This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature connected to the so called Porter Hypothesis. That is, to review the literature connected to the discussion about the relation between environmental policy and competitiveness. According to the conventional wisdom environmental policy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207277
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Report on trends in the Italian productive system
Brandolini, Andrea; Bugamelli, Matteo; Barone, Guglielmo; … - Banca d'Italia - 2009
In the last decade the Italian economy has underperformed compared both with the previous decades and with the main European countries. It is widely acknowledged that this evolution reflects unresolved structural problems, which have become more urgent in view of the major changes in the world...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004981443
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New business formation and the productivity of manufacturing incumbents: Effects and mechanisms
Changoluisa, Javier; Fritsch, Michael - 2014
We analyze the effect of new business formation on the productivity of incumbent manufacturing establishments. We … obtain robust empirical evidence of productivity improvements that are due to the emergence of new businesses in the same … new businesses on the input market and cross-industry effects are not related to incumbents' productivity changes. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500152
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Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity
Dostie, Benoit; Jayaraman, Rajshri - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2008
Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry-specific. Dans cet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005100694
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Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity
Dostie, Benoit; Jayaraman, Rajshri - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008
Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry-specific. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015306