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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - 2009
this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by visiting selected paper mills in Finland, the U.S., Germany and …-efficiency gains from better management of the production processes, inventories, supply-chain, product distribution, and timing of … investments ; competitive advantage ; production management ; supply-chain management …
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Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States
Amiti, Mary; Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - 2021
The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies that have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249187
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Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Apologies : Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment
Halperin, Basil - 2019
We use a theory of apologies to design a nationwide field experiment involving 1.5 million Uber ridesharing consumers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889706
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Monetary Policy in Japan, Germany and the United States : Does One Size Fit All?
Chinn, Menzie David; Dooley, Michael P. - 2021
We study the post-war evidence for Japan to see if the same specification for both the economy and the monetary policy rule is useful for understanding Japan's economy and monetary policy. A recurrent theme in the literature on Japanese monetary policy is that there are significant differences...
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Cities and the structure of social interactions : evidence from mobile phone data
Büchel, Konstantin; Ehrlich, Maximilian von - 2017
Social interactions are considered pivotal to agglomeration economies. We explore a unique dataset on mobile phone calls to examine how distance and population density shape the structure of social interactions. Exploiting an exogenous change in travel times, we show that distance is highly...
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How far away is an intangible? : services FDI and distance
Davies, Ronald B.; Guillin, Amélie - 2011
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years. Evidence of spatial relationships in FDI decisions have been provided for goods manufacturing by utilizing physical distance-based measures of trade costs. This paper investigates spatial interactions for...
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U.S. Firms in Latin American Service Industries
Blomstrom, Magnus; Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021
The participation of U.S. service industry firms in Latin American markets for services consists mainly of the activities of U.S.-owned affiliates operating in Latin America and very little of direct exports of ser- vices from the U.S. The important policy issues thus involve barriers to the...
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The Service Industries and U.S. Economic Growth Since World War Ii
Fuchs, Victor R. - 2021
During the past 15 years employment and current dollar gross product continued to shift to the Service sector at about the same rate as in the early post-World War II period, while the Service sector's share of gross product in constant dollars remained relatively constant. Productivity (as...
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Horizontal versus vertical interdependence in multinational activity
Badinger, Harald (contributor); Egger, Peter (contributor) - 2008
Recent research in international economics highlights the role of interdependencies of investment decisions and sales of multinational firms. Previous work focused on and provided evidence for aggregate flows or stocks of foreign direct investment, showing that interdependence declines in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003720587
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Supplier Relations and Adoption of New Technology : Results of Survey Research in the U.S. Auto Industry
Helper, Susan - 2021
Using an original data source, this paper investigates the circumstances under which firms adopt computer numerical control (CNC), an important type of flexible automation which can significantly increase productivity, product variety and quality. The paper shows that arms'-length...
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