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Taxation, industry integration and production efficiency

Moriconi, Simone - 2016

Taxes levied on production processes (e.g. VAT), are today a very important source of government revenues in developed economies. Theories of optimal taxation conclude that these taxes are detrimental to production efficiency, when firms operate in perfectly competitive markets. These theories...

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How to measure research efficiency in higher education? : research grants vs. publication output

Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2018

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall amount of research grants. The present study...

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Global sourcing decisions and firm productivity : evidence from Spain

Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2009

We investigate the link between productivity of firms and their sourcing behavior. Following Antràs & Helpman (2004) we … productivity premia associated with the different sourcing strategies. We find strong empirical support for the predictions of the … model. -- productivity ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; foreign direct investment ; incomplete contracts ; firm-level data …

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How efficient is the East German economy? : an exploration with micro data

Funke, Michael; Rahn, Jörg - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results...

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Decentralized environmental regulations and plant-level productivity

Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to …

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Labor market sorting in Germany : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, April 2016

Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2016

This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to reconcile prominent empirical models of wage dispersion (Abowd et al., 1999; Card et al., 2013) with theoretical sorting models (Shimer and Smith, 2000; Eeckhout and Kircher, 2011;...

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The efficiency of educational production : a comparison of the Nordic countries with other OECD countries

Bogetoft Pedersen, Peter; Heinesen, Eskil; Tranæs, Torben - 2015

Focusing in particular on upper secondary education, this paper examines whether the relatively high level of expenditure on education in the Nordic countries is matched by high output from the educational sector, both in terms of student enrolment and indicators of output quality in the form of...

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A comprehensive analysis of production efficiency : a tax reform perspective

Jacquet, Laurence; Lehmann, Etienne - 2024

Policies that impact the production sector, such as intermediate goods taxation (e.g. taxing robots) and trade liberalization create winners and losers. When do we need to integrate pre-distribution concerns in the design of these production policies? Should we consider the endogenous changes of...

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Regional productivity network in the EU

Mastromarco, Camilla; Serlenga, Laura; Shin, Yongcheol - 2023

dependence as well as parameter heterogeneity, simultaneously. We then propose the regional productivity network analysis to … examine the diffusion impacts of the capital intensity on the labour productivity in the EU. We apply the proposed approach to …

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The structure of multinational firms' international activities

Davies, Ronald B.; Markusen, James R. - 2020

The structure of a multinational firm, that is how its affiliates relate to one another, is critical for understanding where multinationals locate, how policy affects them, and their resilience to localized shocks. Here, we review the two main structures: horizontal investments which replicate...

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