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Vertical Integration and Technology: Theory and Evidence
Acemoglu, Daron; Griffith, Rachel; Zilibotti, Fabrizio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
This paper investigates the determinants of vertical integration using data from the UK manufacturing sector. We find that the relationship between a downstream (producer) industry and an upstream (supplier) industry is more likely to be vertically integrated when the producing industry is more...
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How Does Outsourcing Affect Performance Dynamics? Evidence from the Automobile Industry
Novak, Sharon; Stern, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
vertical integration and different performance margins. Outsourcing facilitates access to cutting-edge technology and the use …. Together, these effects highlight a crucial tradeoff: while outsourcing is associated with higher levels of initial performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778968
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Securing Their Future? Entry And Survival In The Information Security Industry
Arora, Ashish; Nandkumar, Anand - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
In this paper we study how the existence of a functioning market for technology differentially conditions the entry strategy and survival of different types of entrants, and the role of scale, marketing ability and technical assets. Markets for technology facilitate entry of firms that lack...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084640
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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity
bloom, nicholas; van Reenen, John; Draca, Mirko - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million firms over 1996-2007 across twelve European countries. We correct for endogeneity using the removal of product-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805026
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Exporting and Plant-Level Efficiency Gains: It's in the Measure
Marin, Alvaro Garcia; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
While there is strong evidence for productivity-driven selection into exporting, previous research has mostly failed to … identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. This non-result is derived from revenue productivity (TFPR), thus also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969319
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Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing
Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950745
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Exploring Reallocation's Apparent Weak Contribution to Growth
Nishida, Mitsukuni; Petrin, Amil; Polanec, Sašo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
recent robust growth in Aggregate Labor Productivity (ALP) across twenty-five countries is due to lower barriers to input … reallocation. They find weak gains from measured reallocation and strong within-plant productivity gains. We show these findings … product of labor and changes in OL as a proxy for changes in plant-level productivity. We provide simple examples to show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969274
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Do Large Modern Retailers Pay Premium Wages?
Lafontaine, Francine; Cardiff-Hicks, Brianna; Shaw, Kathryn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
With malls, franchise strips and big-box retailers increasingly dotting the landscape, there is concern that middle-class jobs in manufacturing in the U.S. are being replaced by minimum wage jobs in retail. Retail jobs have spread, while manufacturing jobs have shrunk in number. In this paper,...
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Matching Capital and Labor
Berk, Jonathan B.; Binsbergen, Jules H. van; Liu, Binying - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We establish an important role for the firm by studying capital reallocation decisions of mutual fund firms. At least 30% of the value mutual fund managers add can be attributed to the firm's role in efficiently allocating capital amongst its mutual fund managers. We find no evidence of a...
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How Does Information Technology Really Affect Productivity? Plant-Level Comparisons of Product Innovation, Process Improvement and Worker Skills
Bartel, Ann P.; Ichniowski, Casey; Shaw, Kathryn L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
technology (IT) and productivity by investigating several plant-level mechanisms through which IT could promote productivity … estimation of longitudinal models eliminate many sources of unmeasured heterogeneity that could confound productivity comparisons …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085156