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Whether input suppliers charge customized (discriminatory) or industry-wide (uniform) prices affects downstream manufacturers' incentives to innovate. This paper investigates the implications of input price discrimination when an upstream monopolist commits to prices before downstream firms make...
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We examine micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data...
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by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that - if the aim is to leverage firms' productivity … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …
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Output and input market distortions manifest as wedges in the firm's first order conditions. The production approach to markup estimation recovers the markup wedge using the output elasticity for a variable and undistorted input. We show that using the revenue elasticity for any variable input,...
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We present a model for studying regional and sectoral variation in total factor productivity (TFP) and develop an … neoclassical view that deviations from the frontier reflect only idiosyncratic productivity shocks. We argue that positive skewness …
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This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039087
This paper assesses the total factor productivity performance of Indonesia's regional government banks, using a balance … banks in terms of total factor productivity growth achieved over the study period, and then to identify the principal … the use of inputs to achieve the best practice productivity performance by increasing the output produce from their role …
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; productivity ; financial constraint ; export ; technology frontier ; BEEPS …
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This study examined the technical efficiency (TE) of two different remote internet access methods, wireless and wired in Nigeria using the stochastic frontier production function analysis. Primary data were obtained through the use of a set of questionnaire from four hundred and fifty...
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This study explores the link between telecommunications capital intensity and the aggregate production efficiency in the framework of meta-frontier analysis. The latter makes it possible to compare technical efficiency levels between countries operating under different technological frontiers....
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