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model predicts the impact of different patterns of state ownership and/or political connectedness on firm productivity …, and total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level data for China between 1998 and 2007. We find, consistent with the …
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evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker …
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This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms' monopolistic market power, and workers' wage … study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper …
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The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm's actions and decisions. One of these decisions … endogenous response of revenue-based and quantity-based productivity to a change in layers: a firm reorganization. We show that … as a result of an exogenous demand or productivity shock that makes the firm reorganize and add a management layer …
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In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...
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I extend multi-unit auction estimation techniques to a setting in which firms can express cost complementarities over time. In the context of electricity markets, I show how the auction structure and bidding data can be used to estimate these complementarities, which in these markets arise due...
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In 2008, the European Commission investigated E.ON, a large and vertically integrated electricity company, for the alleged abuse of a joint dominant position by strategically withholding generation capacity. The case was settled after E.ON agreed to divest 5,000 MW generation capacity as well as...
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plants exist. The results indicate that divestment is associated with a drop in total factor productivity accompanied by a …
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The paper undertakes a dynamic analysis for service quality in the electricity distribution in Brazil between 2010 and 2014 based on Malmquist indexes constructed upon Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) distance functions. The motivation for the less usual consideration of efficiency frontiers for...
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This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage … study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210785