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Job creation, firm creation, and de novo entry

Geurts, Karen; Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Firm turnover and growth recorded in administrative data sets differ from underlying firm dynamics. By tracing the employment history of the workforce of new and disappearing administrative firm identifiers, we can accurately identify de novo entrants and true economic exits, even when firms...

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Multiple Equilibria in a Growth Model with Monopolistic Competition

Galí, Jordi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

We develop a simple growth model with imperfect competition in which demand conditions can affect the dynamics of capital accumulation, hindering or enhancing growth. In our model the elasticity of the demand schedule faced by a typical firm depends on the aggregate savings rate. The latter...

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Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

cultural assimilation is optimal within a given stage of development, but is detrimental for the transition between …

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Structural Development Accounting

Gancia, Gino A; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...

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Soviet power plus electrification: what is the long-run legacy of communism?

Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark E; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

that at the end of planning, transition countries had substantially different endowments from their contemporaneous non-transition … transition in 2002-05, poor transition economies differ much more from their non-transition counterparts, in respect to both good … and bad aspects of the planning legacy, than do relatively rich transition countries. However, the persistent beneficial …

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The European Satellite Industry: Prospects for Liberalization

Neven, Damien J; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Waverman, Leonard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper evaluates the effects of liberalizing access to the space sector, as currently envisaged by the EC Commission. We undertake an econometric evaluation of the degree of scale economies in satellite operations and calibrate a Cournot model of competition in which the effect of...

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Competition and Quality: Evidence from the NHS Internal Market 1991-9

Burgess, Simon; Gossage, Denise; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Payer-driven competition has been widely advocated as a means of increasing efficiency in health care markets. The 1990s reforms to the UK health service followed this path. We examine whether competition led to better outcomes for patients, as measured by death rates after treatment following...

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Services Versus Goods Trade: Are They The Same?

Ariu, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

In this paper, we present for the first time a qualitative and quantitative comparison between trade in services and trade in goods at firm level for the same country. We focus first on static features of trade such as participation rates,, firms' characteristics, heterogeneity, concentration...

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Service Trade and Occupational Tasks: An Empirical Investigation

Ariu, Andrea; Mion, Giordano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Using micro data for Belgium we investigate the relationship between occupational tasks changes and the rise of service trade. We focus the analysis on the extensive margin and look at the heterogeneous proliferation of firms involved in exports and imports of services across sectors...

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Corporate Efficiency in Europe

Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evzen; Shamshur, Anastasiya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in Europe. We find that (i) larger firms are less efficient than smaller firms, (ii) greater leverage contributes to corporate efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less...

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