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Productivity Growth and the Structure of the Business Cycle

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

advantage of the possibility of intertemporal subsitution in order to engage in productivity-improving activities during … productivity, both in the short and long run, and the short-run impact is stronger in those countries where fluctuations are more …

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How Does Investing in Cheap Labour Countries Affect Performance at Home? France and Italy

Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Castellani, Davide; Disdier, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

countries have essentially scale effects which eventually trickle down on employment and productivity at home. …

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Investments Abroad and Performance at Home: Evidence from Italian Multinationals

Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Castellani, Davide - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

total factor productivity and output. It also finds no significant effects on employment. These results support the view …

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The Impact of Consulting Services on Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico

Bruhn, Miriam; Karlan, Dean S.; Schoar, Antoinette S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

sales went up by about 80 percent; similarly, profits and productivity increased by 120 percent compared to the control …

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Do entrepreneurs matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development

Karlan, Dean S.; Knight, Ryan; Udry, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...

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Efficiency and Market Share in the Hungarian Corporate Sector

Halpern, László; Kõrösi, Gábor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

One of the major tasks facing a transition economy is to create the competitive environment of a properly functioning market economy. It is widely believed that competition has a positive effect on efficiency, but the theoretical and empirical support is quite scarce. The objective of this paper...

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The Impact of Trade on Organization and Productivity

Caliendo, Lorenzo; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

A firm's productivity depends on how production is organized given the level of demand for its product. To capture this … theory, heterogeneity in demand leads to heterogeneity in productivity and other firms' outcomes. We use the theory to … and will decentralize decisions. The new organization of the average exporter results in higher productivity, although the …

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Enterprise Break-ups and Performance During the Transition

Lizal, Lubomir; Singer, Miroslav; Svejnar, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper estimates the effects of the 1991 breakups of Czechoslovak state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on subsequent performance of the master enterprises and the spin-off units. The analysis is based on quarterly and annual data of Czechoslovak industrial enterprises. We estimate the performance...

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Does dual employment protection affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms

Dolado, Juan J.; Ortigueira, Salvador; Stucchi, Rodolfo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper analyzes the effect of having a large gap in firing costs between permanent and temporary workers in a dual labour market on TFP development at the firm level. We propose a simple model showing that, under plausible conditions, both temporary workers' effort and firms' temp-to-perm...

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