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Investing with the Government : A Field Experiment in China
Colonnelli, Emanuele; Li, Bo; Liu, Ernest - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the demand for government participation in China's venture capital and private equity market. We conduct a large-scale, non-deceptive field experiment in collaboration with the leading industry service provider, through which we survey both sides of the market: the capital investors and...
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Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas; Eifert, Benn; Mahajan, Aprajit; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839149
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Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
Bloom, Nicholas; Genakos, Christos; Sadun, Raffaella; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these … markets are associated with improvements in incentive management practices such as performance based promotion. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399380
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Trading Places: Employers, Unions and the Manufacture of Voice
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Willman, P - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
- especially union-only voice - has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005220075
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Participation in Organisations: Economic Approaches
Cañibano, Almudena; Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
Under the auspices of the debate about high performance work systems, it has been suggested that the evidence of … economics broadly understood. It includes a meta-survey of research on the effects of participation on performance since the … argued that this is due in part to consideration of a wider range of performance outcomes, improved data and methods, and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017018
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Mild Government Failure
Wei, Shang-jin; Xu, Jianhuan; Yin, Ge; Zhang, Xiaobo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A relatively mild form of government failure - for example, bureaucrats can count but do not differentiate quality - can significantly affect the efficacy of industrial policy. We investigate this idea in the context of China's largest pro-innovation industrial policy using a structural model....
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Sectoral Development Multipliers
Buera, Francisco; Trachter, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
How should industrial policies be directed to reduce distortions and foster economic development? We study this question in a multi-sector model with technology adoption, where the production of goods and modern technologies features rich network structures. We provide simple formulas for the...
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Does "Made in China 2025" Work for China? : Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms
Branstetter, Lee; Li, Guangwei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Rising concern over the impact of Chinese industrial policy has led to severe trade tensions between China and some of its major trading partners. In recent years, foreign criticism has increasingly focused on the so-called "Made in China 2025" initiative. In this paper, we use information...
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Picking Winners? Government Subsidies and Firm Productivity in China
Branstetter, Lee; Li, Guangwei; Ren, Mengjia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Are Chinese industrial policies making the targeted Chinese firms more productive? Alternatively, are efforts to promote productivity undercut by efforts to maintain or expand employment in less productive enterprises? In this paper, we attempt to shed light on these questions through the...
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Environmental Policy and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the European Carbon Market
Calel, Raphael; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
This paper investigates the impact of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) on technological change. We exploit installations-level inclusion criteria to estimate the impact of the EU ETS on firms patenting. We find that the EU ETS has increased low-carbon innovation among regulated firms by...
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