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-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product … of imperfections. Clear differences in behavior between firms that serve the foreign market either through exporting or … the labor supply side (workers' bargaining power). But exporting firms where search frictions are inducing wages to vary …
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We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy...
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(and optimize their exporting) than their male peers. Although reduced access to finance seriously constrains the exports …
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Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...
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Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
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Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884118
Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684814
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...
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Trade policies might affect firms' market power and their ability to reap product-market mark-ups. Thus, potentially they influence not only firms' economic performance, but also worker pay. Utilising panel-data on Norwegian Manufacturing exporters from 2005-18 and multi-product production...
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Within a structural model we explicitly allow for the trade orientation of companies to estimate productivity dynamics … for exogenous demand shocks by trade orientation, assuming that labour and capital are state variables, and productivity … follows a first-order Markov process. We extend the framework further by allowing exporting to be an additional control …
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