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Kerr, William R. - 2010

We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...

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Market Potential, Increasing Returns, and Geographic Concentration

Hanson, Gordon H. - 1998

In this paper, I examine the relationship between increasing returns to scale and the geographic concentration of economic activity. Using data on U.S. counties, I estimate the structural parameters of the Krugman (1991) model of economic geography. The specification I use, which is derived from...

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The U.S. Left Behind : The Rise of IPO Activity Around the World

Doidge, Craig - 2011

During the past two decades, there has been a dramatic change in IPO activity around the world. Though vibrant IPO … the U.S. has fallen compared to the rest of the world and U.S. firms go public less than expected based on the economic …

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In a World Without Borders : The Impact of Taxes on Internet Commerce

Goolsbee, Austan - 1998

The rapid rise in sales over the Internet has generated debate over the taxation of such transactions since the buyers … the effects that local sales taxes have on Internet commerce. The results show that, controlling for many observable … characteristics, people who live in locations with high sales taxes are significantly more likely to buy things over the Internet. The …

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Internet Rising, Prices Falling : Measuring Inflation in a World of E-Commerce

Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2018

We use Adobe Analytics data on online transactions for millions of products in many different categories from 2014 to 2017 to shed light on how online inflation compares to overall inflation, and to gauge the magnitude of new product bias online. The Adobe data contain transaction prices and...

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Online Syndicates and Startup Investment

Catalini, Christian - 2018

Early crowdfunding platforms were based on a premise of complete disintermediation from traditional experts. This approach becomes problematic when equity is involved because of asymmetric information between entrepreneurs and investors. Moreover, it favors regions that already attract a...

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Measuring the Location of Production in a World of Intangible Productive Assets, FDI, and Intrafirm Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2008

As production comes to depend more on intangible productive assets, the location of production by multinational firms becomes increasingly ambiguous. The reason is that, within the firm, these assets have no clear geographical location, but only a nominal location determined by the firm's tax or...

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Distributional Impacts of the Changing Retail Landscape

Cao, Yue; Chevalier, Judith A.; Handbury, Jessie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

A common tactic to estimate willingness-to-travel exploits variation in the relative proximity of consumers to supplier locations. The validity of these estimates relies on the exogeneity of that consumer-supplier distance. We argue that distance to suppliers is endogenous because suppliers...

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Would You Buy a Honda Made in the U.S.? The Impact of Production Location on Manufacturing Quality

Lacetera, Nicola - 2012

Are location-specific factors--such as the education and attitude of the local workforce, supplier networks, institutional infrastructure, and local "culture"--important for understanding persistent heterogeneities among firms? We address this question in the context of the automobile industry....

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U.S. Worker Mobility Across Establishments within Firms : Scope, Prevalence, and Effects on Worker Earnings

Carballo, Jeronimo; Mansfield, Richard; Pfander, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Multi-establishment firms account for around 60% of U.S. workers' primary employers, providing ample opportunity for workers to change their work location without changing their employer. Using U.S. matched employer-employee data, this paper analyzes workers' access to and use of such...

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