IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5133

Productivity under Large Pay Increases: Evidence from Professional Baseball

Kerry L. Papps

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5037

Predictability of Asset Returns and the Efficient Market Hypothesis

M. Hashem Pesaran

published in: Aman Ullah and David E. Giles (eds.), Handbook of Empirical Economics and Finance, Taylor & Francis. 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4841

Identification and Estimation of Distributional Impacts of Interventions Using Changes in Inequality Measures

Sergio Firpo

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(3), 457-486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4834

Excess Leverage and Productivity Growth in Emerging Economies: Is There A Threshold Effect?

Fabrizio Coricelli, Nigel Driffield, Sarmistha Pal, Isabelle Roland

revised version published as 'When does leverage hurt productivity growth? A firm-level analysis' in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2012, 31 (6), 1674-1694

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4799

Education and the Welfare Gains from Employment Protection

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet

published as 'Education and Employment Protection' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 20, 3-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4657

Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency: Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors

Subal C. Kumbhakar, Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Lesley Potters, Marco Vivarelli, Peter Voigt

published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2012, 37, 125-140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4630

Produce or Speculate? Asset Bubbles, Occupational Choice and Efficiency

Pierre Cahuc, Edouard Challe

published in: International Economic Review, 2012, 53 (4), 1005-1035.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4400

Do Better Paid Politicians Perform Better? Disentangling Incentives from Selection

Stefano Gagliarducci, Tommaso Nannicini

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (2), 369-398

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4344

Employment Fluctuations with Downward Wage Rigidity: The Role of Moral Hazard

James Costain, Marcel Jansen

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, special issue: "Price and Wage Dynamics", 2010, 112(4), 782-811

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4261

The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives

Benoit Dostie, Rajshri Jayaraman

published as 'Do Higher Costs Spur Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives? Evidence from a Natural Experiment' in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (3), 529–550

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4199

A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index

Donghyun Oh, Almas Heshmati

published as 'A sequential Malmquist–Luenberger productivity index: Environmentally sensitive productivity growth considering the progressive nature of technology ' in: Energy Economics, 2011, 32 (6), 1345 - 1355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4097

Efficiency in a Search and Matching Model with Endogenous Participation

James Albrecht, Lucas Navarro, Susan Vroman

published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (1), 48-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3998

New Evidence on the Finite Sample Properties of Propensity Score Matching and Reweighting Estimators

Matias Busso, John DiNardo, Justin McCrary

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (5), 885-897

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3953

The Financial and Operating Performance of Privatized Firms in Sweden

Motasam Tatahi, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3923