This paper exploits a short-lived cooperation program between the U.S.S.R. and China, which led to the construction of 156 "Million-Rouble plants" in the 1950s. We isolate exogenous variation in location decisions due to the relative position of allied and enemy airbases and study the long-run...

Gerade kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen bietet überbetriebliche Zusammenarbeit in Produktionskooperationen oder Produktionsnetzwerken Chancen, um auch zukünftig am Markt erfolgreich zu sein. In den Kernbereichen des Verarbeitenden Gewerbes arbeitet immerhin die Hälfte der Betriebe bereits in...

"A firm's production activities are often supported by non-production activities. Among these activities are administrative units including headquarters, which process information both within and between firms. Often firms physically separate such administrative units from their production...

This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...