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Israel: The Start-Up Nation, and its Threat from Within

Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Three main vantage points are brought together in this paper: (1) Israel’s relatively good economic performance in recent years – at least, in comparison with other Western countries that have still not emerged from the recession; (2) motivations for the wave of social protests that erupted...

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Enforcement of Regulation, Informal Labour, Firm Size and Firm Performance

Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

firm performance. Using firm level data on employment, capita, and output, census data on informal employment at the city …

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Five Puzzles in the Behaviour of Productivity, Investment and Innovation

Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

future of innovation? First-rate inventions in the 1990s, notably the web and user-friendly business productivity software … markets that welcome innovation, while Europe remains under the control of corporatist institutions that dampen competition …

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Productivity Spillovers Through Labor Mobility

Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Moen, Espen R; Preugschat, Edgar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

imitate by hiring a worker from a firm that has already innovated. We show that if innovation firms can commit to long … contracts, there is too little innovation and too much imitation in equilibrium. Our model is tractable and allows us to analyze … welfare effects of various policies in the limited commitment case. We find that subsidizing innovation and taxing imitation …

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Innovation and the Export-productivity Link

Cassiman, Bruno; Golovko, Elena - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We explore the relationship between innovation activity, productivity, and exports using a panel of Spanish … manufacturing firms for 1990-1998. Our results - based on non-parametric tests - suggest that firm innovation status is important in … innovation seems to explain the positive association between exports and productivity for this group of firms. For small non …

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Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Van Reenen, John; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …

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Technology, Organization and Productivity in Services: Lessons from Britain and the United States Since 1870

Broadberry, Stephen N; Ghosal, Sayantan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper first documents the comparative productivity performance of the United States and Britain since 1870, showing the importance of developments in services. We identify the transition in market services from customized, low-volume, high margin business organized on a network basis to...

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Dynastic Management

Caselli, Francesco; Gennaioli, Nicola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Dynastic management is the inter-generational transmission of control over assets that is typical of family-owned firms. It is pervasive around the world, but especially in developing countries. We argue that dynastic management is a potential source of inefficiency: if the heir to the family...

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Dualism and Aggregate Productivity

Temple, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper shows how to calibrate a two-sector general equilibrium model of production using a small number of parameter assumptions and readily available data. The framework is then used to analyse the costs of labour market dualism. The Paper quantifies the effects of rural-urban wage...

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Technology and Economic Performance in the American Economy

Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper examines the sources of the US macroeconomic miracle of 1995-2000 and attempts to distinguish among permanent sources of American leadership in high-technology industries, as contrasted with the particular post-1995 episode of technological acceleration, and with other independent...

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