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Caliendo, Lorenzo; Parro, Fernando - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during the last decades. We first discuss the origins of the China shock, its measurement, and present methods used to study its economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus...

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The Deaths of Manufacturing Plants

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2002

This paper examines the causes of manufacturing plant deaths within and across industries in the U.S. from 1977-1997. The effects of international competition from low wage countries, exporting, ownership structure, product diversity, productivity, geography, and plant characteristics are...

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Moonshot : Public R&D and Growth

Kantor, Shawn Everett; Whalley, Alexander T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War era Space Race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that leverages US-Soviet rivalry in space technology to isolate windfall R&D spending. Our results demonstrate that public R&D...

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Outsourcing when Investments are Specific and Complementary

Lileeva, Alla - 2008

Using the universe of large Canadian manufacturing firms in 1988 and 1996, we investigate to what extent outsourcing … outsourcing less likely; (ii) complementarities between the investments of the buyer and the seller are also associated with less … outsourcing; (iii) property rights predictions on the link between investment intensities and optimal ownership are only supported …

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Contractual Versus Generic Outsourcing : The Role of Proximity

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2005

We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing …. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions …

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Global Sourcing and Multinational Activity : A Unified Approach

Antràs, Pol; Fadeev, Evgenii; Fort, Teresa C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Multinational firms (MNEs) accounted for 42 percent of US manufacturing employment, 87 percent of US imports, and 84 of US exports in 2007. Despite their disproportionate share of global trade, MNEs' input sourcing and final-good production decisions are often studied separately. Using newly...

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On Average Establishment Size across Sectors and Countriesy

Bento, Pedro - 2018

We construct a new dataset for the average employment size of establishments across sectors and countries from hundreds of sources. Establishments are larger in manufacturing than in services, and in each sector they are larger in richer countries. The cross-country income elasticity of...

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Management and Misallocation in Mexico

Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...

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The Impact of R&D Subsidy on Innovation : a Study of New Zealand Firms

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2015

This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New Zealand. Using a large database that links administrative and tax data with survey data, we are able to control for large number of firm characteristics and thus minimise selection...

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The Link Between Manufacturing Growth and Accelerated Services Growth in India

Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2014

The impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing growth has been widely studied in the literature. What has gone unappreciated is that accelerated manufacturing growth has also been accompanied by accelerated services growth. Using firm-level data from India, we find a positive spillover from...

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