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Dutch Disease or Agglomeration? The Local Economic Effects of Natural Resource Booms in Modern America

Allcott, Hunt - 2014

Do natural resources benefit producer economies, or is there a “Natural Resource Curse,”0 perhaps as the crowd-out of manufacturing productivity spillovers reduces long-term growth? We combine new data on oil and gas endowments with Census of Manufactures microdata to estimate how oil and...

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Buy Local? the Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion

Chen, Henry C. - 2014

We document geographic concentration by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three cities - San Francisco, Boston, and New York. We find that firms open new satellite offices based on the success rate of venture capital-backed investments in an area. Geography is...

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Industrial Clusters, Networks and Resilience to the Covid-19 Shock in China

Dai, Ruochen; Mookherjee, Dilip; Quan, Yingyue; Zhang, … - 2021

dummies in the entry data. Reliance of clusters on informal entrepreneur hometown networks and closer proximity to suppliers …

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Oil and Gas Revenue Allocation to Local Governments in Eight States

Newell, Richard G. - 2015

This report examines how oil and gas production generates revenue for local governments in eight states through four key mechanisms: (i) state taxes or fees on oil and gas production; (ii) local property taxes on oil and gas property; (iii) leasing of state-owned land; and (iv) leasing of...

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The Impact of Removing Tax Preferences for U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Production : Measuring Tax Subsidies by an Equivalent Price Impact Approach

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2016

This paper presents a novel methodology for estimating impacts on domestic supply of oil and natural gas arising from changes in the tax treatment of oil and gas production. It corrects a downward bias when the ratio of aggregate tax expenditures to domestic production is used to measure the...

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Seeking Alpha : Excess Risk Taking and Competition for Managerial Talent

Acharya, Viral V. - 2013

We present a model in which managers are risk-averse and firms compete for scarce managerial talent ("alpha"). When managers are not mobile across firms, firms provide efficient compensation, which allows for learning about managerial talent and for insurance of low-quality managers. When...

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From Russia with Love : The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival

Falck, Oliver - 2014

effects are due to increased competition for local resources …

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Sears Roebuck in the Twentieth Century : Competition, Complementarities, and the Problem of Wasting Assets

Raff, Daniel M. G.; Temin, Peter - 2021

Sears Roebuck and Co. faced similar challenges in the 1920s and the 1980s. On the strength of the early period's strategic investment decisions, the company grew into the nation's largest retailer and a pervasive factor in the economy. In the later period, unanswered challenges nearly destroyed...

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Why is Productivity Correlated with Competition?

Backus, Matthew - 2019

The correlation between productivity and competition is an oft–observed but ill–understood result. Some suggest that … there is a treatment effect of competition on measured productivity, e.g. through a reduction of managerial slack. Others … argue that greater competition makes unproductive establishments exit by reallocating demand to their productive rivals …

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What Drives Differences in Management?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2017

: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of …

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