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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262532
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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566810
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Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entryand Post-Entry Growth of Firms
Aghion, Philippe; Fally, Thibault; Scarpetta, Stefano - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Advanced market economies are characterized by a continuous process of creativedestruction. Market forces and technological developments play a major role in shaping thisprocess, but institutional and policy settings also influence firms´ decision to enter, to expandif successful and to exit if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861084
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How Credit Constrained Are Family-Owned SMEs in Arab Countries?
Gourene, Grakolet; Brixiova Schwidrowski, Zuzana; … - 2024
Family-owned firms account for majority of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Arab countries, but evidence on the impact of this ownership type on access to credit in the region is scarce. Yet the issue is key for understanding barriers to the emergence of dynamic private sector and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015210918
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Financing, Ownership, and Performance: A Novel, Longitudinal Firm-Level Database
Brown, J. David; Davis, Steven J.; Foster, Lucia; … - 2024
The Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) underpins many studies of firm-level behavior. It tracks longitudinally all employers in the nonfarm private sector but lacks information about business financing and owner characteristics. We address this shortcoming by linking LBD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015210959
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Female Board Representation and Corporate Performance: A Review and New Estimates for Australia
Bayly, Nicholas; Breunig, Robert; Wokker, Chris - 2023
Despite a conventional wisdom that female board members positively impact firm performance, a thorough examination of the research to date reveals no consensus that female board members have either a positive or negative effect on firm performance. We build the largest dataset of Australian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469498
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Trend in Energy Intensity and Carbon Performance in North Africa
Gourene, Grakolet; Hamouda, Samia Mansour; Brixiova, Zuzana - 2024
Decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation and climate change, increasing resource efficiency, and promoting both sustainable production and sustainable lifestyles is a challenge in North Africa, a region where even a relative decoupling of income growth and carbon (CO2) emissions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533979
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Equilibrium Unemployment Under Negotiated Profit Sharing
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - 2003
We study employment, employee effort, wages and profit sharing when firms face stochastic revenue shocks and when base wages and profit shares are determined through negotiations. The negotiated profit share depends positively on the relative bargaining power of the trade union and it has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261570
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Profit Sharing, Credit Market Imperfections and Equilibrium Unemployment
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - 2004
We investigate the interaction between labour and credit market imperfections for equilibrium unemployment in the presence of profit sharing. In a partial equilibrium with exogenous outside options increased bargaining power of banks has adverse employment effects. In a general equilibrium with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261788
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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262073