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Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...

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Heterogeneity of technology-specific R&D investments : evidence from top R&D investors worldwide

Gkotsis, Petros; Vezzani, Antonio - 2018

determining R&D per patent investments, economies of scale in knowledge production, and the cost of (further) specialization …

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Do manufacturing firms benefit from services FDI? : evidence from six new EU member states

Damijan, Jože P.; Kostevc, Črt; Marek, Philipp; … - 2015

This paper focuses on the effect of foreign presence in the services sector on the productivity growth of downstream customers in the manufacturing sector in six EU new member countries in the course of their accession to the European Union. For this purpose, the analysis combines firm-level...

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Taking the CON out of Pennsylvania : did hip and knee replacement patients benefit?

Averett, Susan; Terrizzi, Sabrina; Yang Wang - 2017

forms of CON programs. We examine the effect of the expiration of Pennsylvania's CON law on indicators of quality and cost … effect on our various measures of quality and cost. …

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The role of the construction sector in influencing natural resource use, structural change, and industrial development in Zambia

Cheelo, Caesar; Liebenthal, Robert - 2018

The construction sector plays a critical role in delivering quality infrastructure, which in turn influences the use of natural resource revenues towards achieving structural change and industrial development. We use industrial organization and political economy lenses to describe and understand...

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Measuring the performance of banks : theory, practice, evidence, and some policy implications

Hughes, Joseph P.; Mester, Loretta J. - 2013

episodes of financial distress and they also have an incentive to increase risk to exploit the cost-of-funds subsidy of … relationship to size requires untangling cost and profit from decisions about risk versus expected-return because both cost and … higher levels of risk-taking. Studies of banking cost that ignore endogenous risk-taking find little evidence of scale …

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How to not miss a productivity revival once again?

Ark, Bart van; Vries, Klaas de; Erumban, Abdul Azeez - 2020

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Characteristics of special purpose entities in measures of U.S. direct investment abroad

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The fiscal effect of immigration : reducing bias in influential estimates

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

to estimate these effects are problematic. Methods based on cashflow accounting offer precision at the cost of bias …

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Einschlagstopp in alten, naturnahen Buchenwäldern im öffentlichen Besitz : Definition, Vorkommen, Inventur-Kennzahlen, Gefährdung und ökonomische Bewertung

Bolte, Andreas; Kroiher, Franz; Rock, Joachim; Dieter, … - 2022

Der Koalitionsvertrag der Bundesregierung sieht vor, dass der Einschlag in alten, naturnahen Buchenwäldern im öffentlichen Besitz gestoppt werden soll (SPD/Grüne/FDP 2021, Zeile 1219-1220). Im vorliegenden Thünen Working Paper werde für alte, naturnahe Buchenwälder mögliche Definitionen...

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