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Information, Decisions, and Productivity : On-Board Computers and Capacity Utilization in Trucking

Hubbard, Thomas N. - 2022

(OBC) adoption has affected capacity utilization in the trucking industry. Estimates using 1997 data indicate that capacity … utilization has increased by an average of 13% among trucks for which advanced OBCs have been adopted. The average benefits to … capacity utilization in the industry, which translates to billions of dollars of annual benefits. The commercialization of …

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Business Cycle Accounting

Chari, Varadarajan V.; Kehoe, Patrick J.; McGrattan, … - 2022

We propose a simple method to help researchers develop quantitative models of economic fluctuations. The method rests on the insight that many models are equivalent to a prototype growth model with time-varying wedges which resemble productivity, labor and investment taxes, and government...

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Investment, Capacity, and Uncertainty : A Putty-Clay Approach

Gilchrist, Simon; Williams, John C. - 2022

We embed the microeconomic decisions associated with investment under uncertainty, capacity utilization, and machine …

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Are Technology Improvements Contractionary?

Basu, Susanto; Fernald, John G.; Kimball, Miles S. - 2022

Yes. We construct a measure of aggregate technology change, controlling for varying utilization of capital and labor …

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Robust real-time estimates of the German output gap based on a multivariate trend-cycle decomposition

Berger, Tino; Ochsner, Christian - 2022

The German economy is an important economic driver in the Euro-area in terms of gross domestic product, labour force and international integration. We provide a state of the art estimate of the German output gap between 1995 and 2022 and present a nowcasting scheme that accurately predicts the...

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Capacity utilization, factor substitution, and productivity growth in Canadian food processing sector

Gamtessa, Samuel - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 10 (2022), pp. 1-16

industry and potential coping techniques. This study estimates capacity utilization, which is a measurement that is well …-suited to identify how input prices affect productivity in the short-run. The results show that capacity utilization decreased … factor substitution. Another conclusion is that capacity utilization has a positive elasticity with respect to the cost of …

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Measuring TFP : The Role of Profits, Adjustment Costs, and Capacity Utilization

Comin, Diego; Quintana, Javier; Schmitz, Tom; Trigari, … - 2022

accounts for profits and adjustment costs, and uses firm surveys to proxy for changes in factor utilization. Using it to … substantially differ from the ones obtained with standard methods (i.e., Solow growth accounting and the utilization-adjusted method …

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Collusion sustainability with a capacity constrained firm

Madio, Leonardo; Pignataro, Aldo - 2022

We study an infinitely repeated oligopoly game in which firms compete on quantity and one of them is capacity constrained. We show that collusion sustainability is non-monotonic in the size of the capacity constrained firm, which has little incentive to deviate from a cartel. We also present...

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Capacity constraints as a trigger for high growth

Coad, Alexander; Domnick, Clemens; Flachenecker, Florian; … - In: Small business economics : an international journal 59 (2022) 3, pp. 893-923

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The role of slack resources and managerial capabilities in early and late internationalization : a configurational approach

Vuorio, Anna; Faroque, Anisur Rahman; Kuivalainen, Olli - In: Small enterprise research 29 (2022) 3, pp. 227-249

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