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  1. China's processing trade and value chains
    Author: Ing, Lili Yan; Tian, Wei; Yu, Miaojie
    Published: May 2018
    Publisher:  Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, [Jakarta]

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    Series: ERIA disuccion papers ; ERIA-DP-2018, 02
    Subjects: trade liberalisation; firm performance; processing trade
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  2. Bidding against the odds?
    the impact evaluation of grants for young micro and small firms during the recession
    Author: Srhoj, Stjepan; Škrinjarić, Bruno; Radas, Sonja
    Published: May 2018
    Publisher:  The Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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    Series: EIZ working papers ; EIZ-WP-18, 02
    Subjects: grants; recession; young firms; survival; firm performance; bank loans
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  3. Eliminating gender disparities in firm performance in India
    can globalization bridge the gap?
    Author: Shastri, Shruti
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan

    A growing literature is investigating the nature and size of the disparities in the performance of firms led by men and women. The extant literature in this regard is inconclusive and provides support for both the women's under-performance hypothesis... more

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    A growing literature is investigating the nature and size of the disparities in the performance of firms led by men and women. The extant literature in this regard is inconclusive and provides support for both the women's under-performance hypothesis and the superior performance of women-led firms. A noticeable feature of the available literature is the heterogeneity of results across regions, which provides the rationale for country-specific studies. The purpose of this study is to establish whether there is a performance gap between women- and men-led firms in the Indian context and to what extent globalization contributes to this gap. Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey of 9376 firms, the present study finds that firms with a female top manager exhibit higher mean labor productivity and a higher level of internationalization than firms with a male top manager. For a pooled sample of men- and women-led firms, the study finds a positive impact of export intensity, global value chain (GVC) participation, and foreign ownership on firm performance. The positive impact of export intensity and GVC participation is, however, larger for firms with female managers. The findings further reveal that having a female top manager positively moderates the relationship between exports and firm performance and GVC and firm performance. In other words, women-managed businesses are able to harness greater productivity gains from exporting and GVC participation than men-managed businesses. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis of the labor productivity gap between women- and men-managed firms also shows that not only the levels of export intensity and GVC participation but also the returns from such participation contribute to the higher productivity of women-led firms over men-led firms.

     
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    Series: ADBI working paper series ; no. 1456 (June 2024)
    Subjects: gender disparities; firm performance; women-managed firms; globalization
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  4. The impact of hydrogeological events on firms
    evidence from Italy
    Author: Clò, Stefano; David, Francesco; Segoni, Samuele
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  Banca d'Italia Eurosistema, [Rom]

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    Series: Temi di discussione / Banca d'Italia ; number 1451 (April 2024)
    Subjects: climate change; natural disasters; floods; landslides; firm performance; survivalanalysis; staggered diff-in-diff; multiple treatments
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  5. The relationships between business support, managerial practices and firm performance over time
    Author: Knox, Stephen; Mwaura, Samuel; Oziri, Victoria
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  ERC, Enterprise Research Centre, Coventry

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    Series: ERC research paper ; 114 (October 2024)
    Subjects: business advice; government grants; combined business support; managerialpractices; firm performance
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  6. Light touch, lean tally
    impacts of an MSME support program in Côte D’Ivoire
    Author: Lakemann, Tabea; Beber, Bernd; Lay, Jann; Priebe, Jan
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen, Germany

    In many developing countries, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) employ more people than any other type of firm, so identifying ways to raise productivity, improve employment conditions and formalize labor in these settings is of prime... more

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    In many developing countries, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) employ more people than any other type of firm, so identifying ways to raise productivity, improve employment conditions and formalize labor in these settings is of prime policy importance. However, due to the small number of workers per firm and the possibly long results chain linking management to employment, few MSME-targeted interventions and evaluations address job-related outcomes directly. We do so in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a support program for MSMEs in Côte d’Ivoire that included financial management and human resources (HR) components. Six and eighteen months after the end of the program, we find muted impacts on business practices, access to finance, and firm performance. On the employment side we find sizeable, positive impacts on job quality, driven by the share of employees receiving at least the minimum wage and the share with written contracts. We find no significant effect on the number of staff. Taken together, our results underscore the difficulty of boosting firm performance and creating jobs with a low-intensity intervention on the one hand, and the feasibility and importance of improvements in employment quality in MSMEs in developing countries on the other. In vielen Entwicklungsländern sind in Kleinst-, Klein- und Mittelunternehmen (KKMU) mehr Menschen beschäftigt als in jeder anderen Art von Unternehmen. Daher ist es von großer politischer Bedeutung, Wege zur Steigerung der Produktivität, zur Verbesserung der Beschäftigungsbedingungen und zur Formalisierung der Arbeit in diesem Umfeld zu finden. Aufgrund der geringen Anzahl von Arbeitnehmenden pro Unternehmen und der möglicherweise langen Zusammenhangskette zwischen Management und Beschäftigung befassen sich jedoch nur wenige auf KKMU ausgerichtete Interventionen und Evaluierungen direkt mit arbeitsplatzbezogenen Indikatoren. Wir leisten hier mit einer randomisierten kontrollierten Studie (RCT) eines Unterstützungsprogramms für KKMU in Côte d'Ivoire, das Komponenten des Finanz- und des Personalmanagements umfasst, einen Beitrag. Sechs und achtzehn Monate nach dem Ende des Programms finden wir eingeschränkte Auswirkungen auf Geschäftspraktiken, Zugang zu Finanzmitteln und Unternehmensleistung. Auf der Beschäftigungsseite finden wir beträchtliche, positive Auswirkungen auf die Qualität der Arbeitsplätze, die durch den Anteil der Beschäftigten, die mindestens den Mindestlohn erhalten, und den Anteil mit schriftlichen Verträgen bestimmt werden. Auf die Anzahl der Mitarbeiter haben wir keine signifikanten Auswirkungen festgestellt. Zusammengenommen unterstreichen unsere Ergebnisse einerseits die Schwierigkeit, die Unternehmensleistung zu steigern und Arbeitsplätze mit einer wenig intensiven Intervention zu schaffen, und andererseits die Machbarkeit und Bedeutung von Verbesserungen der Beschäftigungsqualität in KKMU in Entwicklungsländern.

     
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    Series: Ruhr economic papers ; #1096
    Subjects: MSME support; employment quality; firm performance; randomized controlled trial; Côte d’Ivoire
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  7. Volatile temperatures and their effects on equity returns and firm performance
    Author: Bortolan, Leonardo; Dey, Atreya; Taschini, Luca
    Published: October 2024
    Publisher:  CESifo, Munich, Germany

    We establish the financial materiality of temperature variability by demonstrating its impact on US firms and investors. A long-short strategy that sorts firms based on exposure earns a market-adjusted alpha of 39 basis points per month. This... more

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    We establish the financial materiality of temperature variability by demonstrating its impact on US firms and investors. A long-short strategy that sorts firms based on exposure earns a market-adjusted alpha of 39 basis points per month. This variability metric is related to aggregate decreases in firm profitability, with asymmetric effects across industries. These outcomes are driven by reductions in consumer demand and labor productivity coupled with changes in media and investor attention. The geographically scalable statistical framework provides a reference for assessing the quantitative effects of climate-related physical risks, offering a metric for improving the disclosure of material climate risks.

     
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    Series: CESifo working papers ; 11438 (2024)
    Subjects: corporate climate reporting; climate attention; temperature variability; stock returns; firm performance
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  8. Exploring the relationship between job quality and firm productivity in the manufacturing sector
    panel data evidence from Ethiopia
    Author: Tigabu Degu Getahun; Fetene, Gebeyehu Manie; Baumüller, Heike; Kubik, Zaneta
    Published: July 2024
    Publisher:  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Center for Development Research, Bonn

    By leveraging firm-level panel data from 400 agro-processing and leather manufacturing firms in Ethiopia, this paper investigates links between firm productivity and monetary and non-monetary dimensions of job quality. The results point to a positive... more

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    By leveraging firm-level panel data from 400 agro-processing and leather manufacturing firms in Ethiopia, this paper investigates links between firm productivity and monetary and non-monetary dimensions of job quality. The results point to a positive impact of higher salaries on firm productivity, but limited effects of non-monetary job quality indicators. Specifically, a 10% increase on each of the salaries of tenured medium- and high-skilled workers increase sales per worker by 1.79% and 1.46%, respectively, ceteris paribus. Similarly, increasing the starting salary of medium-skilled workers by 10% increases profit per worker, sales per worker and value-add per worker by 2.27%, 2.43% and 2.44%, respectively. Non-monetary job quality indicators had a weak impact on productivity, however, reducing the incentive of employers to invest in job quality improvements. Impact of productivity increases on monetary and non-monetary job quality indicators follow a similar pattern. An increase in profit per worker was found to increase the salaries of both tenured employees and new hires. For instance, a 10% increase in profit per worker increases tenured salaries of low-and medium-skilled workers by 0.2% and 0.3%, respectively, and starting salaries for low, medium and high-skilled workers by 0.21%, 0.28% and 0.27%, respectively. However, a statistically significant impact of profit per worker and value add per worker on non-monetary aspects of job quality was not.

     
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    Series: ZEF-discussion papers on development policy ; no. 349
    Subjects: productivity; salary; job quality; labour compensation; firm performance
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  9. You can take them with you
    recruiting coworkers to one’s own new firm
    Author: Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Rauch, James E.; Koyama, Sérgio Mikio
    Published: November 2024
    Publisher:  CESifo, Munich, Germany

    New firms do not yet have employees who can aid recruiting by referrals, but entrepreneurs can recruit workers they know to their startups—in effect making their own referrals. We consider new firms in Brazil’s formal sector founded between 2002 and... more

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    New firms do not yet have employees who can aid recruiting by referrals, but entrepreneurs can recruit workers they know to their startups—in effect making their own referrals. We consider new firms in Brazil’s formal sector founded between 2002 and 2014, for which at least one founding owner can be traced to previous formal employment. We find that 35.1 percent of new firms with at least five employees hire one or more coworkers from a founding owner’s last employer in their first year of operation, and that 9.2 percent of first-year hires at new firms were coworkers at a founding owner’s last employer. The former coworkers most likely to join a founding owner’s new firm are those who, at their last employer, worked in the same plant as a founding owner, had long overlap with a founding owner, were classified in the same industry or occupation as a founding owner, and were hired at roughly the same time as a founding owner. Controlling for observable human capital and new firm fixed effects, former coworkers earn eight percent higher initial wages at new firms and are six percentage points less likely to separate before a new firm’s second year of operation. We find that the coworker wage premium diminishes with tenure by 0.5 percentage points per year and the coworker separation premium diminishes with tenure by 2.0 percentage points per year.

     
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    Series: CESifo working papers ; 11520 (2024)
    Subjects: job referrals; business formation; entrepreneurship; employee spinoffs; firm performance
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  10. Brexit had no measurable effect on Irish exporters
    Author: Elsner, Benjamin; Flaherty, Eoin T.; Haller, Stefanie
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  UCD School of Economics, University College Dublin, Dublin

    We study the impact of the Brexit referendum on Irish exporters to the UK. The referendum triggered a sharp devaluation of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK and the... more

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    We study the impact of the Brexit referendum on Irish exporters to the UK. The referendum triggered a sharp devaluation of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK and the EU. Using administrative data on the universe of Irish exporters, we compare exporters with different levels of exposure to the UK market before the referendum. Our findings do not point to a significant effect of the referendum on Irish exporters. Over the period 2015-2021, the firms least exposed to the UK - but most internationalised otherwise - had considerably higher exit rates from exporting to the UK and from the market overall. They also saw greater declines in employment and sales compared to more exposed firms. We do not find significant differences for export volumes to the UK or elsewhere or for average wages. These findings are robust to controlling for a variety of firm characteristics.

     
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    Edition: This version: August 15, 2024
    Series: Working paper series / UCD Centre for Economic Research ; WP24, 15 (August 2024)
    Subjects: Brexit; firm performance; Trade; Wages; Employment
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  11. Brexit had no measurable effect on Irish exporters
    Author: Elsner, Benjamin; Flaherty, Eoin T.; Haller, Stefanie
    Published: August 2024
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    We study the impact of the Brexit referendum on Irish exporters to the UK. The referendum triggered a sharp devaluation of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK and the... more

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    We study the impact of the Brexit referendum on Irish exporters to the UK. The referendum triggered a sharp devaluation of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK and the EU. Using administrative data on the universe of Irish exporters, we compare exporters with different levels of exposure to the UK market before the referendum. Our findings do not point to a significant effect of the referendum on Irish exporters. Over the period 2015-2021, the firms least exposed to the UK - but most internationalised otherwise - had considerably higher exit rates from exporting to the UK and from the market overall. They also saw greater declines in employment and sales compared to more exposed firms. We do not find significant differences for export volumes to the UK or elsewhere or for average wages. These findings are robust to controlling for a variety of firm characteristics.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 17229
    Subjects: Brexit; firm performance; trade; wages; employment
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  12. Firm performance and the quality of the provincial government in the COVID-19 pandemic era
    evidence from listed companies in Viet Nam
    Author: Duong Thi Chi; Nguyen Thu Hang
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan

    The main purpose of this article is to investigate whether firms experienced a decline in performance during the COVID-19 pandemic and the influence of the quality of local government on firm performance within the context of the pandemic,... more

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    The main purpose of this article is to investigate whether firms experienced a decline in performance during the COVID-19 pandemic and the influence of the quality of local government on firm performance within the context of the pandemic, controlling for credit growth and firm characteristics variables. Firm performance was measured using return on equity (ROE), Tobin's Q, and firm growth while government quality was assessed through the proactivity of provincial leadership, business support services, and the growth of gross regional domestic product (GRDP). The findings reveal a significant difference in ROE, Tobin's Q, and firm growth before and during the pandemic, indicating that firm performance deteriorated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lowest performance occurred in 2020, which showed the most significant influence of the pandemic. After controlling the dummy COVID-19 and interaction variables, we found that the proactivity of provincial leadership played an important role in mitigating the negative impact of the COVID-19 crisis on firm growth and ROE. Nevertheless, this study found no evidence of the impact of provincial governance measured by business support services and GRDP in the remaining regression models. It would seem that the proactive initiatives of local government can positively influence the market environment, leading to increased revenue (firm growth) and improved ROE. However, as the Tobin's Q index is determined by stock prices and linked to the stock market, the impact of local government is not substantial. Moreover, the current business support services provided by local government may not effectively meet firms' need to enhance performance, and changes in regional economic output (GRDP) during COVID-19 show no substantial influence on firm performance. Therefore, there is a need for broader support at the macro level, involving the active participation of the state and the Ministry of Finance.

     
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    Series: ADBI working paper series ; no. 1475 (August 2024)
    Subjects: firm performance; proactivity of provincial leadership; business support policy; GRDP; COVID-19 pandemic
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  13. Are financing conditions a threat to SMEs' performance, growth, and transformation?
    Author: Ferrando, Annalisa; Pál, Rozália
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan

    Availability of internal and external financing sources has an impact on firms' investments and growth. Even profitable firms with sufficient financing sources in normal times can be affected by demand and supply shocks such as the COVID-19 lockdown,... more

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    Availability of internal and external financing sources has an impact on firms' investments and growth. Even profitable firms with sufficient financing sources in normal times can be affected by demand and supply shocks such as the COVID-19 lockdown, the energy crisis, or the recent tightening of financing conditions. This paper analyzes the impact of funding difficulties on firms' investment, performance, and growth during normal periods and periods of external shocks using a regression adjustment treatment effect approach. We differentiate among structural barriers of external financing and cyclical worsening of financing conditions, controlling for other major investment barriers. We use survey data collected from the first to the eighth vintage of the European Investment Survey (EIBIS). The empirical evidence shows that micro and small firms and leading innovators are particularly vulnerable to deteriorating funding conditions. Results indicate that firms' lagging in digitalization and green investments are facing more a structural rather than cyclical financing issue. Consequently, policy support should be oriented towards those structural financing impediments.

     
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    Series: ADBI working paper series ; no. 1467 (July 2024)
    Subjects: SMEs; investment gap; external funding; internal funding; financing constraints; uncertainty; investment barriers; firm performance; growth; digital and green transition
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  14. Temporary agency work and firm performance
    evidence from German establishment-level panel data
    Author: Beckmann, Michael; Kuhn, Dieter
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  WWZ, Basel

    This paper empirically examines the impact of temporary agency work on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. Thereby, special attention is devoted to the question, whether there are performance differences between firms using... more

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    This paper empirically examines the impact of temporary agency work on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. Thereby, special attention is devoted to the question, whether there are performance differences between firms using temporary agency workers (TAWs) as a buffer stock (flexibility strategy) and firms using TAWs for screening purposes (screening strategy). While the theoretical discussion on this issue does not lead to clear-cut results, our empirical investigation provides the following results. First, we find an inverse U-shaped relationship between the share of TAWs and firm performance. Second, we obtain that firms following the screening strategy are significantly more productive than firms following the flexibility strategy. These results are found to be valid in both cross-sectional and panel data settings, so they are robust to unobserved firm heterogeneity.

     
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    Series: WWZ working paper ; 09,01
    Subjects: Leiharbeit; Unternehmenserfolg; Humankapital; Arbeitsmarktsegmentation; Schweiz; Deutschland; Temporary agency work; firm performance; flexibility strategy; screening strategy
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  15. Basis for bank credit allocation in China's private sector
    political connection or firm performance?
    Author: Cheng, Wenli; Wu, Yongzheng
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  [Monash University, Monash Business School, Department of Economics], [Canberra]

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    Series: Discussion paper / Monash Business School, Department of Economics ; 16, 41
    Subjects: political connection; firm performance; access to bank credit; private firms in China
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  16. Employee wellbeing, productivity and firm performance
    Author: Krekel, Christian; Ward, George; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

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    Series: CEP discussion paper ; no 1605 (March 2019)
    Subjects: employee satisfaction; engagement; employee productivity; firm performance; wellbeing; meta-analysis
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  17. Design, innovation and performance in European firms
    Author: Montresor, Sandro; Vezzani, Antonio
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  European Commission, Seville, Spain

    This paper provides some new theoretical speculations and empirical evidence on the relationship between design, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity of... more

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    This paper provides some new theoretical speculations and empirical evidence on the relationship between design, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity of introducing product/process innovations, but that the ensuing economic performance is rather associated to the role of design within the firm. Moreover, once controlled for the firm's non-technological innovativeness and other knowledge-production inputs, the role of design does also relate to the introduction of innovative products and/or processes. We provide a systematic empirical test for these arguments on a sample of more than 12,000 European firms from the last EC Innobarometer survey. The econometric estimates are consistent with our expectations. However, while a higher innovativeness is also associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more central role of design, providing this is at least non-occasional. Innovations do actually look "design-led" overall, but innovating successfully apparently requires the firm to retain such a driver central to its business model.

     
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  18. Favoritism and firms
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    Author: Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; Gomtsyan, David
    Published: June 2022
    Publisher:  CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany

    We study the economic implications of regional favoritism, a form of distributive politics that redistributes resources geographically within countries. Using enterprise surveys from low- and middle-income countries, we document that firms located... more

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    We study the economic implications of regional favoritism, a form of distributive politics that redistributes resources geographically within countries. Using enterprise surveys from low- and middle-income countries, we document that firms located close to leaders' birthplaces grow substantially in sales and employment after leaders assume office. Firms in favored areas also experience increases in sales per worker, wages, and measured total factor productivity. These effects are short-lived, and operate through rising (public) demand for the non-tradable sector. We calibrate a simple structural model of resource misallocation on our estimates. This exercise implies that favoritism reduces output by 0.5% annually.

     
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    Series: CESifo working paper ; no. 9797 (2022)
    Subjects: regional favoritism; firm performance; enterprise surveys; resource misallocation
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  19. Harnessing foreign technology to improve firm performance
    evidence from Philippine manufacturing enterprises
    Author: Gaspar, Raymond
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan

    The paper examines the impact of foreign-licensed technology and identifies channels to effectively leverage such technology to improve the performance of manufacturing firms in the Philippines. Using the fixed effects approach to World Bank... more

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    The paper examines the impact of foreign-licensed technology and identifies channels to effectively leverage such technology to improve the performance of manufacturing firms in the Philippines. Using the fixed effects approach to World Bank Enterprise Survey panel data for the Philippines covering 2009 and 2015, the paper finds no statistically significant impact of introducing foreign-licensed technology to manufacturing firms in terms of annual sales, employment, and energy intensity. Interestingly, the impact is more pronounced and significant among manufacturing firms that conduct workforce trainings, thereby improving absorptive capacity through better quality of labor. The empirical findings call for the Philippine government to bolster skills training and human capital formation initiatives, further incentivizing in-house training, to support the advancement of local absorptive capacity and better assimilate the use of foreign technologies.

     
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    Subjects: technology transfer; technology licensing; firm performance; local absorptive capacity; Philippines
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  20. The impact of foreign sanctions on firm performance in Russia
    Author: Toan Luu Duc Huynh; Hoang, Khanh; Ongena, Steven
    Published: 30 June 2022
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

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  21. Who wins and who loses from state subsidies?
    Author: Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Stepanok, Ignat
    Published: April 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    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... more

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    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 receive subsidies experience a boost for productivity. However, our approach highlights the importance of indirect effects, which are generally neglected in the literature. We find that, in general but not always, non-subsidized firms experience reductions in their productivity growth if they operate in a cluster where other firms are subsidized. These negative externalities depend on the share of firms that receive subsidies in the cluster. Aggregating direct and indirect effects into a (weighted) total effect shows that this negative indirect effect tends to dominate. We interpret our results in the light of a simple heterogenous firm type model, which highlights that subsidization, in a competitive environment of firms, may potentially harm non-subsidized firms.

     
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    Subjects: Subvention; Unternehmenserfolg; Externer Effekt; Kausalanalyse; China; subsidies; firm performance; treatment effects; externalities; China
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  22. Gender quota on corporate boards in Italy
    spillover effects and financial performance
    Author: Pistoresi, Barbara; Poma, Erica; Rinaldi, Alberto
    Published: February 2022
    Publisher:  nUnimore, Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di economia Marco Biagi, [Modena]

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    Series: DEMB working paper series ; n. 208
    Subjects: Gender quotas; firm performance; panel data; women directors; spillover effects; female executives
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  23. Nobody's gonna slow me down?
    the effects of a transportation cost shock on firm performance and behavior
    Author: Branco, Catarina; Dohse, Dirk; Santos, João Pereira dos; Tavares, José
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen, Germany

    This paper takes a deep and comprehensive look into the firm-level behavioral reactions to a massive transportation cost shock. Exploiting rich data encompassing the universe of Portuguese private firms and a natural experiment we find that the... more

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    This paper takes a deep and comprehensive look into the firm-level behavioral reactions to a massive transportation cost shock. Exploiting rich data encompassing the universe of Portuguese private firms and a natural experiment we find that the introduction of tolls on previously toll-free highways caused a substantial decrease of turnover and firm profits. In response to the tolls, firms reduced expenses, cutting employment-related expenses and purchases of other inputs in a similar magnitude. Labor costs were reduced by employment cuts rather than by wage cuts. We find evidence for increased firm exit in treated municipalities, but not for increased re-location. In diesem Papier werden die Verhaltensreaktionen auf Unternehmensebene auf einen massiven Transportkostenschock untersucht. Auf der Grundlage umfangreicher Daten portugiesischen Privatunternehmen und eines natürlichen Experiments finden wir heraus, dass die Einführung von Mautgebühren auf zuvor mautfreien Autobahnen zu einem erheblichen Rückgang des Umsatzes und der Unternehmensgewinne führte. In Reaktion auf die Maut senkten die Unternehmen ihre Ausgaben, indem sie beschäftigungsbezogene Ausgaben und Käufe anderer Vorleistungen in ähnlicher Größenordnung zurückfuhren. Dabei wurden die Arbeitskosten eher durch Beschäftigungsabbau als durch Lohnkürzungen reduziert. Wir finden Belege für vermehrte Firmenaustritte in den untersuchten Gemeinden, aber nicht für eine verstärkte Verlagerung.

     
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    Subjects: Road tolls; infrastructure; firm performance; firm behavior; location; Portugal
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  24. Employee health and firm performance
    Author: Rettl, Daniel A.; Schandlbauer, Alexander; Trandafir, Mircea
    Published: March 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    When workers are in bad health, their productivity declines. We investigate whether the health of employees affects firm performance, taking advantage of the severity of the seasonal influenza seasons as a source of exogenous variation. We find that... more

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    When workers are in bad health, their productivity declines. We investigate whether the health of employees affects firm performance, taking advantage of the severity of the seasonal influenza seasons as a source of exogenous variation. We find that firms whose employees are particularly affected by influenza experience reductions in their return on assets and in net income. These results are not driven by firm-specific characteristics, as we find the same relationship between influenza severity and firm performance within firms, at the establishment level. We also document substantial heterogeneity in the effects, with small firms and labor-intensive firms driving our findings. This suggests that labor is an important driver of firm performance and that capital-intensive and larger firms are better able to shift resources in response to temporary shocks to their workforce. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that smaller firms may be better off subsidizing vaccination programs for their employees.

     
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    Subjects: seasonal influenza; health shock; firm performance
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  25. Nobody's gonna slow me down?
    effects of a transportation cost shock on firm performance and behavior
    Author: Branco, Catarina Lebre; Dohse, Dirk; Santos, João Pereira dos; Tavares, José
    Published: 16 April 2022
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

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    Subjects: Road tolls; infrastructure; firm performance; Firm behavior; Location; Portugal
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