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Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs

Mukherjee, Arijit - 2016

Recent theoretical research shows that exporters are more productive than nonexporters. We show that this result holds almost trivially for the case of constant marginal cost of production, as mainly assumed in the literature, but it may not hold true if the marginal cost is not constant. Our...

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Productivity differences in OECD countries

Pascual, Antonio I. Garcia - 2000

This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests …

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Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity : evidence from China

Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019

We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …

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Robots and firms

Koch, Michael; Manuylov, Ilya; Smolka, Marcel - 2019

robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. …

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The turnaround of the Swedish economy : lessons from large business sector reforms

Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2019

How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during …

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Net capital flows and portfolio diversification

Bürgi, Constantin; Bobić, Vida; Wu, Min - 2019

This paper presents a new explanation for the sustained pattern of international net capital flows by modifying the standard consumption capital asset pricing model (CCAPM) to create net capital flows beyond the initial period. In addition to the well established link between asset returns and...

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Growing productivity without growing wages : the micro-level anatomy of the aggregate labor share decline

Kehrig, Matthias; Vincent, Nicolas - 2017 - First version: November 2015, this version: March 29, 2017

The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing...

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Industrial espionage and productivity

Glitz, Albrecht; Meyersson, Erik - 2017

's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …

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Railways and the productivity gap in Italy : persistence and divergence after unification

Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015

productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial …

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Import competition, heterogeneous preferences of managers, and productivity

Chen, Cheng; Steinwender, Claudia - 2019

may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has … competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially … unproductive. Productivity improvements are driven by family management as opposed to family ownership or non-managing family …

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