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Variance Bounds on the Permanent and Transitory Components of Stochastic Discount Factors

Bakshi, Gurdip; Chabi-Yo, Fousseni - Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial … - 2011

When the transitory component of the stochastic discount factors (SDFs) prices the long-term bond, and the permanent component prices other assets, we develop lower bounds on the variance of the permanent component and the transitory component, and on the variance of the ratio of the permanent...

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The economic contribution of high-growth firms: Do definitions matter?

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Handelns Utredningsinstitut (HUI Research) - 2010

Prior studies have defined high-growth firms (HGFs) in terms of sales or employment, and analyzed their contribution to employment growth. We define HGFs by employment and sales and add definitions of value added and productivity. We examine the contribution of HGFs to employment growth,...

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Who do High-growth Firms Employ, and Who do they Hire?

Coad, Alex; Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Johansson, Dan; … - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to study who high- growth firms (HGFs) hire using a matched employer-employee dataset for all knowledge intensive industries in Sweden, where high growth is measured over the period 1999-2002. The results indicate that HGFs to a larger extent employ young people,...

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A note on the choice of Malmquist productivity index and Malmquist total factor productivity index

Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper by analyzing the two popular methodologies of productivity measurement provides an example that illustrates the differences when adopting the two methodologies. Furthermore, under the restriction of constant returns to scale raises some methodological issues regarding the theory of...

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Total Factor Productivity and Energy Intensity in Indian Manufacturing: A Cross-Sectional Study

Sahu, Santosh Kumar; Narayanan, Krishnan - In: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 1 (2011) 2, pp. 47-58

and hence it is necessary to focus on these ascepts for Indian manufacturing industries. The objective of the paper is to … Indian manufacturing industries. Ýn addition, energy efficient firms also found to have high levels of TFP. This implies the … need for fostering energy efficiency at firm level in Indian Manufacturing. …

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FDI in Business Services has general TFP effects : evidence from Italy

Armenise, Massimo; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Santoni, Gianluca - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2011

This paper studies the effect of FDI in business services on Total Factor Productivity of Italian manufacturing firms … manufacturing firms. This relationship is particularly strong in the case of high tech sectors, such as mechanics and machinery …

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Efficiency of Manufacturing in Russia: Effect of Domestic Competition and FDI

Bessonova, Eugenia - In: Applied Econometrics 17 (2010) 1, pp. 106-127

In this paper we investigate the effect of the entry of foreign firms on the efficiency of Russian industrial enterprises using the panel firm level dataset for 1995-2004. The analysis of the competition structure of Russian industrial sectors reveals that domestic concentration ratios remain...

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How to Move Product Market Regulation in New Zealand Back Towards the Frontier

Conway, Paul - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

New Zealand is no longer assessed to be at the forefront of regulatory policy making. Although economic geography clearly …

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Betriebsräte und betriebliche Produktivität

Müller, Steffen - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science … 131 (2011) 1, pp. 73-89

Betriebliche Mitbestimmung der Arbeitnehmer durch Betriebsräte ist ein zentrales Element der industriellen Beziehungen in Deutschland. Dennoch besteht trotz langjähriger Forschung keine Einigkeit über ihre Wirkung auf die betriebliche Produktivit ät. In diesem Papier wird zunachst der...

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Esemplificazione della Data Envelopment Analysis per la valutazione di efficienza in una grande azienda ospedaliera universitaria

Copello, Francesco; Pellicanò, Cristiana - Sezione di Economia e Finanza (DISEFIN), Facoltà di … - 2011

The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is applied by the management control of a huge teaching hospital to evaluate the relative efficiency of human resources. The authors show an experimental approach based on geometrical methods and simple statistical techniques that can be easily performed by...

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