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Most research on firm financing studies the choice between debt and equity. We model an alternative source -- non … issues equity if the financing need is high. This result is robust to using the cash for an uncertain investment. Second …
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The Paper analyses the funding of an infrastructure project (high speed train line, platform, tunnel, harbor, regional airport, fibre-to-the-home network, etc.) in a situation in which an incumbent operator has private information about market profitability (demand, cost) and the infrastructure...
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We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel, the minimill, on the aggregate productivity of U …'s productivity is linked to this new technology, and operates through two distinct mechanisms. First, minimills displaced the older … technology, called vertically integrated production, and this reallocation of output was responsible for a third of the increase …
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Poor countries must specialize in standardized, labour-intensive commodities. Middle-income countries may have a richer menu of options available to them if their labour force is reasonably well-educated and skilled. This paper is motivated by the possibility that there may exist multiple...
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hours worked rise or fall when technology improves. Recent literature finds that when hours per person enter the VAR in … following a technology improvement. The issue is the common high-low-high pattern of hours per capita and productivity growth …
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observed price patterns. The high volatility results from high uncertainty about the average productivity of a new technology …. Investors learn about this productivity before deciding whether to adopt the technology on a large scale. For technologies that … railroad technology by the late 1850s. …
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We review the literature on the links between technology and international trade. The older literature assumed … relationship between each one of these forms of change in technology with international trade. Apart from integrating much of the …
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This paper builds a model of growth through industrialization, as machines replace workers in a growing number of tasks. This enables the economy to experience long-run growth, as machines become servants of humans, and as their number can grow unboundedly. The mechanism that drives growth is...
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The 1998 reform of the Italy's retail trade sector delegated the regulation of entry of large stores to the regional governments. We use the local variation in regulation to determine the effects of entry barriers on firms' performance for a representative sample of retailers. We address the...
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During the last two decades new research has greatly advanced our understanding of the structure of world trade. This article reviews the empirical literature that grew out of this effort. I emphasize the interplay between theory and empirical research that was an important driving force behind...
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