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The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms

Antràs, Pol; Fort, Teresa C; Tintelnot, Felix - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

multi-country sourcing model in which heterogeneous firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country …

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The Determinants of Output Per Contributor in Open Source Projects: An Empirical Examination

Fershtman, Chaim; Gandal, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Using a unique dataset we examine empirically which factors explain output per contributor in open source projects. We find that the output per contributor of open source programmes is much higher when licenses are less restrictive. Further examination suggests that the difference in output per...

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Managerial Leverage is Limited By the Extent of the Market: Hierarchies, Specialization and the Utilization of Lawyers' Human Capital

Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper examines hierarchies’ role in the organization of human-capital-intensive production. We develop an equilibrium model of hierarchical organization, then provide empirical evidence using confidential data on thousands of law offices from the 1992 Census of Services. We show how the...

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Market Concentration and Competition in Eastern Europe

Kattuman, Paul A; Newbery, David M G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

A key feature of Soviet-type economies is the excessive concentration of production and the skewed size distribution of enterprises. This is the root cause of the `soft budget constraint' and a natural outcome of the political economy of these countries. Given entrenched political support for a...

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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...

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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,...

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Green innovations and organisational change: making better use of environmental technology

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …

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Skill Dispersion and Firm Productivity: An Analysis with Employer-Employee Matched Data

Iranzo, Susana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Tosetti, Elisa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We study the relation between workers' skill dispersion and firm productivity using a unique dataset of Italian … production function that depends on the skill composition show that a firm's productivity is positively related to skill …

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Productivity Effects of International Outsourcing: Evidence from Plant Level Data

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Strobl, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant level data for Irish manufacturing … on productivity is different for plants being more embedded in international markets through exporting or being part of a … outsourcing of services on productivity for firms not operating on the export market. …

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Productivity, Relationship-Specific Inputs and the Sourcing Modes of Multinationals

Defever, Fabrice; Toubal, Farid - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We investigate the roles of productivity and the specificity of inputs for the international sourcing strategy of firms … transaction. The dataset also provides information to estimate the firms' productivity and their intensity in relationship …

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