We develop a methodology to analyze capital misallocation (dispersion in static marginal products) measure the contributions of technological/informational frictions and a rich class of firm-specific factors. An application to Chinese manufacturing firms reveals that adjustment costs and uncertainty, while significant, generate only a modest amount of MPK dispersion, which stems largely from ot...

We explore the role of the ownership structure of capital in an economy that suffers from barriers to entry and an imperfect financial system. In such an environment, an unequal distribution of capital provides an explanation for trade flows and trade gains even when countries do not differ in relative factor endowments or available technologies. Moreover, an uneven asset distribution is associ...

Twenty-seven Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains were isolated from 207 stx-positive French environmental samples. Ten of these strains were positive for stx(1), and 24 were positive for stx(2) (10 were positive for stx(2vh-a) or stx(2vh-b), 19 were positive for stx(2d), and 15 were positive for stx(2e)). One strain belonged to serotype O157:H7, and the others belonged to sero...

İhracata dayalı büyüme hipotezi iktisat literatüründe en çok test edilen konulardan biri olmasına rağmen birbirinden farklı sonuçlara ulaşıldığı gözlemlenmektedir. Bununla birlikte Türkiye içinde ilgili hipotezin edildiği birçok çalışma mevcut olmakla elde sonuçlar bir o kadar karmaşıktır. Ayrıca üzerine yapılan ampirik çalışmaların azı yapısal kırılmaların varlığını dikkate almıştır. Bu kapsam...

Small-scale fishermen from Watu Ulo, Jember, Indonesia use very simple fishing gear and small boats nets. Thus, they receive a low catch affect their well-being. This study aims to analyze the factors that can income expenditure of fishers’ households. interviewed in Ulo Hamlet, Ambulu District, using random sampling. The analytical method this used Two-stage Least Square (2SLS) estimate parame...

A convergent [3+2] block synthetic strategy was developed for the synthesis of the pentasaccharide repeating unit of the cell wall O-antigen of Escherichia coli O11 strain in excellent yield in a minimum number of steps. Several suitably functionalized thioglycoside derivatives were used as glycosyl donors during the synthesis of the target compound. A thioglycoside was the glycosyl donor used ...

Several studies in recent years have provided evidence that Pseudomonas aeruginosa has a non-clonal population structure punctuated by highly successful epidemic clones or clonal complexes. The role of recombination in the diversification of P. aeruginosa clones has been suggested, but not yet demonstrated using multi-locus sequence typing (MLST). Isolates of P. aeruginosa from five Mediterrane...

The paper surveys the literature on the growth performance of the East Asian economies, evaluates the sustainability of that performance, and provides a preliminary assessment of their long-term growth prospects in the aftermath of the current crisis. It highlights special features of East Asian growth, including unusually high factor accumulation and a favorable demographic transition, but arg...

This paper examines the structural determinants of output volatility in developing countries, and especially the roles of geography and institutions. We investigate the volatility effects of market access, climate variability, the geographic predisposition to trade, and various measures of institutional quality. We find an especially important role for market access: remote countries are more l...