Report NEP-BEC-2025-09-29

This is the archive for NEP-BEC, a report on new working papers in the area of Business Economics. Shuichiro Nishioka issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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The following items were announced in this report:

• Klaus Friesenbichler & Agnes Kügler, 2025. "Short and Medium-term Effects of Intangible Capital on Firm Growth. Firm Level Evidence from Austrian Microdata," WIFO Working Papers 711, WIFO.
• Bryson, Alex & Tanaka, Mari, 2025. "Unions in Developing Countries," IZA Discussion Papers 18128, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Michael Kilumelume & Justice Tei Mensah & Aimable Nsabimana & Kunal Sen, 2025. "Automation, firms, and workers: Evidence from South Africa," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2025-61, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
• Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes & Esther Arenas-Arroyo & Parag Mahajan & Bernhard Schmidpeter, 2025. "Low-Wage Jobs, Foreign-Born Workers, and Firm Performance," Department of Economics Working Papers wuwp384, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Economics.
• Minni, Virginia, 2025. "Making the Invisible Hand Visible: Managers and the Allocation of Workers to Jobs," IZA Discussion Papers 18137, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Celiku, Bledi & Ubfal, Diego Javier & Valdivia, Martin, 2025. "Gender Gaps in the Performance of Small Firms : Evidence from Urban Peru," Policy Research Working Paper Series 111218, The World Bank.
• Margaret S. McMillan & Hundanol A. Kebede, 2025. "Firm Capacity Underutilization and the Measurement of Productivity," NBER Working Papers 34279, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Tuuli Paukkeri & Terhi Ravaska, 2025. "Income Inequality Early in Life: Underage Children as Owners of Privately Held Firms," Working Papers 35, Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research.
• Martins, Ana & Pereira dos Santos, João & Pozzobon, Fernando, 2025. "Sailing Through Troubled Waters: Evidence from Support Discontinuities to Firms in Times of Crisis," IZA Discussion Papers 18136, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Masayuki MORIKAWA, 2025. "Trends and Characteristics of “Manufacturing X†: An empirical analysis using panel data for Japanese firms (Japanese)," Discussion Papers (Japanese) 25022, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
• Christopher Goetz & Henry Hyatt & Zachary Kroff & Kristin Sandusky & Martha Stinson, 2025. "Business Owners and the Self-Employed: 33 Million (and Counting!)," Working Papers 25-60, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
• Razan Amine & Qianqian Zhang & Shushanik Hakobyan & Ankita Goel, 2025. "Bottlenecks to Private Sector Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Firm-Level Analysis," IMF Working Papers 2025/188, International Monetary Fund.
• Lin William Cong & Yao Lu & Hanqing Shi & Wu Zhu, 2025. "Automation-Induced Innovation Shift," NBER Working Papers 34240, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Cirera, Xavier & Cruz, Marcio & Soares Martins Neto, Antonio, 2025. "Higher Education Expansion and Firm Organization," Policy Research Working Paper Series 11216, The World Bank.
• Jens Friedmann & Britta Glennon & Exequiel Hernandez, 2025. "Substituting Talent with Transactions: Acquisitions as Responses to Immigration Restrictions," NBER Working Papers 34248, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Chauvin, Juan Pablo & Chauvin, Jasmina & Chaves, Giovanna, 2025. "Connectivity and Misallocation in Multi-unit Firms," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 14268, Inter-American Development Bank.
• Samuel Kortum & Bernardo S.C. Ribeiro, 2025. "Growth with Firm-to-Firm Trade," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 2459, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
• Anaya Longaric, Pablo & Kostakis, Vasileios & Parisi, Laura & Vinci, Francesca, 2025. "Oil shocks and firm investment on the two sides of the Atlantic," Working Paper Series 3116, European Central Bank.
• Kuosmanen, Natalia & Kuosmanen, Timo & Pajarinen, Mika, 2025. "Are Firms Hiring Enough Workers? Firm-level Evidence from Finland’s Manufacturing and Service Industries," ETLA Working Papers 133, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy.
• Byker, Tanya & Malik, Sara & Patel, Elena & Sandvik, Jason, 2025. "Board Gender Diversity and Workforce Composition, Compensation, and Retention for U.S. Publicly Traded Firms," IZA Discussion Papers 18125, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Richard B. Freeman & Huanan Xu, 2025. "Happier at Work? The Impact of Working at an Employee-Owned Firm and Working from Home on Job Satisfaction," NBER Working Papers 34231, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Subhasish Dugar & Kenju Kamei, 2025. "Pay Inequity and Peer Dynamics: New Field Evidence on Labor Market Sorting," Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series DP2025-020, Institute for Economics Studies, Keio University.
• Djankov, Simeon & Melcarne, Alessandro & Ramello, Giovanni B. & Spruk, Rok, 2025. "Timely justice as a determinant of economic growth," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 129551, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
• Jaedo Choi & George Cui & Younghun Shim & Yongseok Shin, 2025. "The Dynamics of Technology Transfer: Multinational Investment in China and Rising Global Competition," NBER Working Papers 34284, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Kristian Behrens & Yasusada Murata, 2025. "Linear fractional relative risk aversion," Papers 2509.09865, arXiv.org, revised Oct 2025.
• Aaron Chatterji & Thomas Cunningham & David J. Deming & Zoe Hitzig & Christopher Ong & Carl Yan Shan & Kevin Wadman, 2025. "How People Use ChatGPT," NBER Working Papers 34255, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.