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Are Bigger Banks Better? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany

Huber, Kilian - 2021

quasi-exogenous increases in bank size in postwar Germany. I show that firms did not grow faster after their relationship …, but worked with riskier borrowers. Bank managers benefited through higher salaries and media attention. The paper presents …

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Adjustment costs, inventories and output

Danziger, Leif - 2008

This paper analyzes the optimal adjustment strategy of an inventory-holding firm facing price- and quantity-adjustment costs in an inflationary environment. The model nests both the original menu-cost model that allows production to be costlessly adjusted, and the later model that includes...

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Growing by the Masses - Revisiting the Link between Firm Size and Market Power

Afrouzi, Hassan; Drenik, Andres; Kim, Ryan - 2021

How are a firm’s size and market power related to one another? Combining micro-data about producers and consumers, we document that while firms mainly grow by selling to more customers, their markups are only associated with their average sales per customer. To study the macroeconomic...

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Growth and earnings persistence in banking firms: a dynamic panel investigation

Shehzad, Choudhry Tanveer; de Haan, Jakob; Scholtens, Bert - 2009

volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a … bank. Using a dynamic panel model estimated by GMM for a mixed sample of more than 1500 banks from 65 countries, we find no … evidence of persistence in bank growth. However, our findings suggest significant persistence in bank profitability. Moreover …

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Is Finance Good for Growth? New Evidence from China

Chen, Jingzhu; Ji, Yuemei - 2022

a large amount of bank loans to local governments through the local government financing vehicles (LGFVs). This allows … form of higher loan to GDP ratio leads to lower economic growth rate. We find that discrimination in bank lending, housing …

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Is Finance Good for Growth? New Evidence from China

Chen, Jingzhu; Ji, Yuemei - 2022

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Information and Communication Technology and Firm Geographic Expansion

Jiang, Xian - 2023

This paper studies how information and communication technology (ICT) affects the firm geographic organization and its implications on aggregate efficiency. ICT can widen firms' geographic span of control by reducing their internal communication costs. Empirical evidence from confidential US...

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Lifting the veil: The face of TFP in an Indian rail mill

Das, Sanghamitra; Krishna, Kala M.; Lychagin, Sergey; … - 2011

We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill (RSM) in India to understand how output rose sharply in response to competitive pressures. Output increases came predominantly from reductions in production delays of various kinds. We model...

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EU ETS, Free Allocations and Activity Level Thresholds - The Devil Lies in the Detail

Branger, Frédéric; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre; Sartor, Oliver - 2015

This paper investigates incentives for firms to increase output above the activity level thresholds (ALTs) in order to obtain more free allowances in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. While ALTs were introduced in order to reduce excess free allocation to low-activity installations, for...

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Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms

Caliendo, Lorenzo; Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; … - 2015

The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm’s actions and decisions. One of these decisions involves the organization of production in terms of the number of layers of management the firm decides to employ. Using detailed employer-employee matched data and firm...

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