Maurice Kugler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3710381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurice Kugler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurice |
| FAMILY NAME | Kugler |
| SIGNATURE | KUGLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Invention complexity, latent innovation capabilities, and economic development in upper middle-income countries
This paper examines how upper middle-income countries (UMICs) transition from imitation- to innovation-led growth, and whether sustained innovation capabilities drive long-run economic development. Building on the World Bank's World Development Report 2024 (WDR 2024), we develop a unified theoretical and methodological framework integrating endogenous growth, Schumpeterian growth, economic complexity, and entrepreneurial self-discovery approaches…
Long Covid: The evolution of household welfare in developing countries during the pandemic
This study examines household welfare dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic, using harmonized data from over 300 phone surveys in 80 countries during 2020 and 2021, representing more than 2.5 billion people. The analysis traces out the evolution of employment and income across and within countries as restrictions on economic activity were relaxed. We show some groups initially experiencing higher rates of employment loss - including women, inform…
How did the Covid-19 crisis affect different types of workers in the developing world
Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows
Migration facilitates the flow of information between countries, thereby reducing informational frictions that potentially hamper cross-country financial flows. Using a gravity model, migration is found to be highly correlated with financial flows from the migrant's host country to her home country. The correlation is strongest where information problems are more acute (e.g., between culturally more distant countries), for asset types that are mo…
Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows
Prices, Plant Size, and Product Quality
Drawing on uncommonly rich and representative data from the Colombian manufacturing census, this paper documents new empirical relationships between input prices, output prices, and plant size and proposes a model of endogenous input and output quality choices by heterogeneous firms to explain the observed patterns. The key empirical facts are that, on average within narrowly defined sectors, (1) larger plants charge more for their outputs and (2…
Factor Adjustments after Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants
We analyze nonlinear adjustments of capital and labor using plant data from the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey, allowing for interdependence in adjustments of the two factors. We find nonlinear employment and capital adjustments. We also find that capital shortages reduce hiring, and labor surpluses reduce capital shedding. Moreover, we find that job destruction and capital formation increased after factor market deregulation in Colombia. …
Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombia
We use a panel of manufacturing plants from Colombia to analyze how the rise in payroll tax rates over the 1980s and 1990s affected the labor market. Our estimates indicate that formal wages fall by between 1.4% and 2.3% as a result of a 10% rise in payroll taxes. This “less‐than‐full shifting” is likely to be the result of weak linkages between benefits and taxes and the presence of downward wage rigidities in Colombia. Because the costs of taxa…
Migrations et investissements directs étrangers dans l'espace européen (ue-15)
Dans la théorie standard du commerce international, migrations et investissements directs étrangers (ide) se substituent l’un à l’autre dans le processus d’appariement entre travailleurs et firmes. Cependant, la littérature socio-économique récente suggère que les travailleurs migrants peuvent à la fois transmettre de l’information sur leur pays d’origine (par exemple, sur la façon d’y pratiquer des affaires, ou sur les caractéristiques de la mai…
International labor and capital flows: Complements or substitutes
Spillovers from foreign direct investment: Within or between industries
Organized crime, corruption and punishment
The effects of structural reforms on productivity and profitability enhancing reallocation: Evidence from Colombia
Manufacturing Growth and Financial Development: Evidence from OECD Countries
Recent theoretical models conjecture that the development of the financial sector is essential for economic growth. We investigate this hypothesis from a time-series perspective and find that financial sector GDP is cointegrated for many OECD countries not so much with manufacturing GDP but mostly with manufacturing total factor productivity. Moreover, this relation is in some instances characterized by long-run causality in the sense of Granger …
Dinámica de la productividad multisectorial: La Inversión Extranjera Directa Como Canal De Difusión Tecnológica
En este estudio se exploró teóricamente la organización industrial en un país recipiente de inversión extranjera directa (IED), y los nexos estratégicos entre operaciones subsidiarias de corporaciones multinacionales (CMN) y la industria local. El marco analítico derivado de la exploración teórica se aplicó para estimar el efecto tecnológico sectorial y dinámico de la IED sobre la industria manufacturera en Colombia en las dos últimas décadas. Pr…
Spillovers from foreign direct investment: Within or between industries
The effects of structural reforms on productivity and profitability enhancing reallocation: Evidence from Colombia
How did the Covid-19 crisis affect different types of workers in the developing world
Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombia
We use a panel of manufacturing plants from Colombia to analyze how the rise in payroll tax rates over the 1980s and 1990s affected the labor market. Our estimates indicate that formal wages fall by between 1.4% and 2.3% as a result of a 10% rise in payroll taxes. This “less‐than‐full shifting” is likely to be the result of weak linkages between benefits and taxes and the presence of downward wage rigidities in Colombia. Because the costs of taxa…
Long Covid: The evolution of household welfare in developing countries during the pandemic
This study examines household welfare dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic, using harmonized data from over 300 phone surveys in 80 countries during 2020 and 2021, representing more than 2.5 billion people. The analysis traces out the evolution of employment and income across and within countries as restrictions on economic activity were relaxed. We show some groups initially experiencing higher rates of employment loss - including women, inform…
Manufacturing Growth and Financial Development: Evidence from OECD Countries
Recent theoretical models conjecture that the development of the financial sector is essential for economic growth. We investigate this hypothesis from a time-series perspective and find that financial sector GDP is cointegrated for many OECD countries not so much with manufacturing GDP but mostly with manufacturing total factor productivity. Moreover, this relation is in some instances characterized by long-run causality in the sense of Granger …
Dinámica de la productividad multisectorial: La Inversión Extranjera Directa Como Canal De Difusión Tecnológica
En este estudio se exploró teóricamente la organización industrial en un país recipiente de inversión extranjera directa (IED), y los nexos estratégicos entre operaciones subsidiarias de corporaciones multinacionales (CMN) y la industria local. El marco analítico derivado de la exploración teórica se aplicó para estimar el efecto tecnológico sectorial y dinámico de la IED sobre la industria manufacturera en Colombia en las dos últimas décadas. Pr…
Organized crime, corruption and punishment
The effects of structural reforms on productivity and profitability enhancing reallocation: Evidence from Colombia
International labor and capital flows: Complements or substitutes
Spillovers from foreign direct investment: Within or between industries
Migrations et investissements directs étrangers dans l'espace européen (ue-15)
Dans la théorie standard du commerce international, migrations et investissements directs étrangers (ide) se substituent l’un à l’autre dans le processus d’appariement entre travailleurs et firmes. Cependant, la littérature socio-économique récente suggère que les travailleurs migrants peuvent à la fois transmettre de l’information sur leur pays d’origine (par exemple, sur la façon d’y pratiquer des affaires, ou sur les caractéristiques de la mai…
Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombia
We use a panel of manufacturing plants from Colombia to analyze how the rise in payroll tax rates over the 1980s and 1990s affected the labor market. Our estimates indicate that formal wages fall by between 1.4% and 2.3% as a result of a 10% rise in payroll taxes. This “less‐than‐full shifting” is likely to be the result of weak linkages between benefits and taxes and the presence of downward wage rigidities in Colombia. Because the costs of taxa…
Factor Adjustments after Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants
We analyze nonlinear adjustments of capital and labor using plant data from the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey, allowing for interdependence in adjustments of the two factors. We find nonlinear employment and capital adjustments. We also find that capital shortages reduce hiring, and labor surpluses reduce capital shedding. Moreover, we find that job destruction and capital formation increased after factor market deregulation in Colombia. …
Prices, Plant Size, and Product Quality
Drawing on uncommonly rich and representative data from the Colombian manufacturing census, this paper documents new empirical relationships between input prices, output prices, and plant size and proposes a model of endogenous input and output quality choices by heterogeneous firms to explain the observed patterns. The key empirical facts are that, on average within narrowly defined sectors, (1) larger plants charge more for their outputs and (2…
Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows
Migration facilitates the flow of information between countries, thereby reducing informational frictions that potentially hamper cross-country financial flows. Using a gravity model, migration is found to be highly correlated with financial flows from the migrant's host country to her home country. The correlation is strongest where information problems are more acute (e.g., between culturally more distant countries), for asset types that are mo…
Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows
Long Covid: The evolution of household welfare in developing countries during the pandemic
This study examines household welfare dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic, using harmonized data from over 300 phone surveys in 80 countries during 2020 and 2021, representing more than 2.5 billion people. The analysis traces out the evolution of employment and income across and within countries as restrictions on economic activity were relaxed. We show some groups initially experiencing higher rates of employment loss - including women, inform…
How did the Covid-19 crisis affect different types of workers in the developing world
Invention complexity, latent innovation capabilities, and economic development in upper middle-income countries
This paper examines how upper middle-income countries (UMICs) transition from imitation- to innovation-led growth, and whether sustained innovation capabilities drive long-run economic development. Building on the World Bank's World Development Report 2024 (WDR 2024), we develop a unified theoretical and methodological framework integrating endogenous growth, Schumpeterian growth, economic complexity, and entrepreneurial self-discovery approaches…
Economics (11 works) · Global trade and economics (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Macroeconomics (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Labour economics (4 works) · Monetary economics (4 works) · Developing country (3 works)