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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Firms Productivity"”.
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How is Sectoral FDI Affecting Firms’ Performance in Mozambique?
<p>I study the effect of sectoral FDI on firms’ performance in Mozambique from 2007 to 2010 through productivity and efficiency functions, using comprehensive firm level data. Although foreign ownership has a positive effect on firms’ productivity, my results show that in general, sectoral FDI has …
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From plan to market: firm-level adjustment to trade liberalization and business environment reform. Evidence from Vietnam
“What drives firms' performance?” remains one of the most intriguing topics in the economic literature. The myriad determinants identified so far include both internal and external factors. While the internal factors tend to relate to either firms' characteristics or the business decision-making …
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Three essays in economic development and growth
… causal effect of relaxing financial frictions on firms productivity. The second chapter concerns rationalizing Brazil's uneven development path over the postwar period through the lens of a Neoclassical growth model and its transitional dynamics. In the third chapter, a class of models of resource …
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Essays on the economics of innovation
… with cumulative innovation, using a panel of US firms and a network of corporate patent citations. I show that the positive effect of dynamic spillovers on other firms' productivity is economically important, and at least as large as that of own R&D investments. Accounting for both static and …
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Three Essays on the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Productivity
… inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and the productivity relationship by providing both a theoretical and empirical contribution to the existing literature. Chapter 2 studies how inward FDI can affect economic growth. We extend a leader-follower endogenous growth model and highlight …
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Essays on Macroeconomics and Capital Intermediation Networks
… the effects of capital risk sharing between firms, productivity shocks correlations between firms of the same ownership organisations, and collateral restrictions between firms of separate groups, on aggregate fluctuations.
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Essays On Econometrics With Latent Heterogeneity And Production Function Estimation
Modeling heterogeneity among firms, workers, or countries ensures robust empirical analysis and also provides a measurement of important, but latent, economic forces. However, to model with economic theory alone is challenging and leaves room for data-driven econometric methods to assist. …
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Three essays in economics
… of whom to admit, interact with the signals that firms receive about student productivities to determine labor market outcomes. Students understand that fraternities value both academic ability and “socializing values”, and will screen out students with lesser academic abilities unless they have …
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ESSAYS ON GLOBALIZATION, LABOR MARKET, AND PRODUCTIVITY
… intersection of globalization, labor market, and productivity in developing countries. It is composed of three chapters.</p> <p>Chapter 1 studies how a country's trade policy affects competition in its domestic labor market. In a heterogeneous-firm model with oligopsonistic local labor markets, …
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Essays in financial economics
… which affect the idiosyncratic volatility of firms' productivity, and (ii) growth uncertainty shocks, which affect the idiosyncratic variability of firms' investment opportunities. My model deviates from the neoclassical setting in one respect: firms' investment policies are set by the experts …
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Three essays in applied microeconomics on contemporary Chinese economic issues
… linguistic dialect zones. The share of HMT firms located just inside a region that speaks the same dialects as HMT is 5–7 percentage points (20 percent) higher than those located just outside. The increase in investments from HMT also generates positive local spillovers that raise the …
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Essays on International Trade
… of trade policy, labor market outcomes, and firms' productivity. It consists of three chapters.</p><p>Chapter 1 investigates firms' importing and exporting decision-making and how these decisions impact firms' future productivity. First, I document some facts about firms' importing and …
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Essays in Macroeconomics and Heterogeneity
… and the distribution of financially constrained firms. The last two chapters address the topic of identification in macroeconomics with the last chapter focusing on the measurement of heterogeneous dynamic effects after a macroeconomic policy shock. The first chapter examines how oligopolistic …