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Who lives in the c-suite? Organizational structure and the division of labor in top management

Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012

team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments - which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …

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Marshallian vs Jacobs Effects: Which One Is Stronger? Evidence for Russia Unemployment Dynamics

Demidova, Olga; Kolyagina, Alena; Pastore, Francesco - 2018

This paper is devoted to the study of diversification and specialization influence on one of the main indicators of … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …

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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments – which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …

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The financial and operating performance of privatized firms in Sweden

Tatahi, Motasam; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

This paper examines the change in operating and financial performance of Swedish firms that were either partly or fully privatized during the period of 1989-2007. Two different methods are used to empirically investigate the performance of privatized firms. First, accounting data prior to and...

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Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency: The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey

Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysit - 2015

This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …

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The Financial and Operating Performance of Privatized Firms in Sweden

Tatahi, Motasam; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Heterogeneous Innovations and Growth Under Imperfect Technology Spillovers

Jo, Karam; Kim, Seula - 2024

We study how frictions in learning others' technology, termed "imperfect technology spillovers," impact firm innovation strategies and the aggregate economy through changes in innovation composition. We develop an endogenous growth model that generates strategic innovation decisions, where...

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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

Utar, Hale - 2022

This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...

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Who Wins and Who Loses from State Subsidies?

Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Stepanok, Ignat - 2022

China is perceived to rely on subsidizing firms in targeted industries to improve their performance and stay competitive. We implement an approach that allows for the joint estimation of direct and indirect effects of subsidies on subsidized and non-subsidized firms. We find that firms that...

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German Financial State Aid during COVID-19 Pandemic: Higher Impact among Digitalized Self-Employed

Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander S.; … - 2022

In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...

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