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This paper investigates the link between competition and efficiency for the Hungarian corporate sector during various … estimated production functions indicate a gradual improvement in efficiency and a shift from decreasing to increasing returns to … efficiency of the firm. …
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Private and collective enterprises are expected to increase overall efficiency in transitional China, partly because … they are more efficient than state owned enterprises. More importantly, this paper argues, they induce efficiency gains in …
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Using a large, original database of 385 politically connected firms under the Mubarak regime in Egypt, we document for the first time the negative impact of cronyism on economic growth. In the early 2000s, a policy shift in Egypt led to the expansion of crony activities into new, previously...
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, efficiency estimates may be biased as technological heterogeneity is misunderstood as inefficiency. To overcome this …
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regulation, we find robust evidence of declining foreign capital shares in sectors subject to restrictions on foreign direct … spillovers of regulation that propagate throughout the value chain. …
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. More competition-friendly regulations, as measured by the OECDs' Product Market Regulation (PMR) indicator improve economic … businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …
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Private and collective enterprises are expected to increase overall efficiency in transitional China, partly because … they are more efficient than state owned enterprises. More importantly, this paper argues, they induce efficiency gains in …
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Empirical applications for assessing the efficiency in cultural organizations are still scarce. In this paper, we use a … non-radial, output-oriented, DEA model for assessing the efficiency of a sample of 292 Musical Societies in the Valencian … territoriality. The achieved results show that the average efficiency of the Musical Societies stands at 72.66% and points out to the …
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Macro analysis of the sources of income differences has produced very different results as to the importance of education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity...
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