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industrial reforms. Using data on Indian manufacturing firms, this paper analyzes the relationship between firm's productivity … that more productive firms become exporters, the results do not show that entry into export markets enhances productivity …. The paper examines the explanation of self selection hypothesis for total factor productivity differences across 33 …
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Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to … interest in maximising productivity. Ours is the first study to measure service industry productivity using both price and … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …
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Because heterogenous and unknown shareholder utility functions make it difficult to define a corporate objective common to all shareholders based on utility, the traditional theory of the firm concentrates on wealth maximization as the main measure of performance. Using the concept of ranked...
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productivity growth. This would help in particular laggard firms and low-skilled people, making the benefits of digitalisation …
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Output and input market distortions manifest as wedges in the firm's first order conditions. The production approach to markup estimation recovers the markup wedge using the output elasticity for a variable and undistorted input. We show that using the revenue elasticity for any variable input,...
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This chapter overviews productivity research from an industrial organization perspective. We focus on what is known and … what still needs to be learned about the productivity levels and dynamics of individual producers, but also how these … interact through markets and industries to influence productivity aggregates. We overview productivity concepts, facts, data …
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Publication productivity, as measured by the number of papers, has been regarded as one of the main indicators of … Wide Web in ASEAN countries is still unclear. The main intention of this study was to identify publication productivity … productivity. Moreover, a positive and significant relationship was observed between indices, GDP and internet usage for these …
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Since the early 1990s international - or even global - outsourcing of intermediate products from suppliers has been propagated as a key means to improve the performance of firms. It is argued that becoming more lean and internationally focused is beneficial for the buyer as well as for the...
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We develop a model of entrepreneurial innovation for entry and sale into oligopoliessuitable for welfare analysis. We show that the expected consumer welfare can be higherunder commercialization by sale than under commercialization by entry despite increasedmarket power in the product market....
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