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Exporting and Plant-Level Efficiency Gains: It's in the Measure
Marin, Alvaro Garcia; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
While there is strong evidence for productivity-driven selection into exporting, previous research has mostly failed to … identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. This non-result is derived from revenue productivity (TFPR), thus also … from trade are substantially larger than previously documented. Evidence suggests that a complementarity between exporting …
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What is 'Firm Heterogeneity' in Trade Models? The Role of Quality, Scope, Markups, and Cost
Redding, Stephen James; Weinstein, David; Hottman, Colin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
firms, and the fact that larger firms supply more products than smaller firms, implies that standard productivity measures … are not independent of demand system assumptions and probably dramatically understate the relative productivity of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951335
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Cross-country Conversion Factors for Sectoral Productivity Comparisons
Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
International comparisons of the level of labor or total factor productivity have used exchange rates or purchasing … persistent, raising the need for disaggregate price measures to make disaggregate productivity comparisons. Sectoral differences …
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The Limits of Reputation in Platform Markets: An Empirical Analysis and Field Experiment
Nosko, Chris; Tadelis, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We argue that reputation mechanisms used by platform markets suffer from two problems. First, buyers may draw conclusions about the quality of the platform from single transactions, causing a reputational externality across sellers. Second, for a variety of reasons we discuss, reputations will...
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How do Hospitals Respond to Negative Financial Shocks? The Impact of the 2008 Stock Market Crash
Dranove, David; Garthwaite, Craig; Ody, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The theory of cost-shifting posits that nonprofit hospitals respond to negative financial shocks by raising prices for privately insured patients. We examine how hospitals responded to the sharp reductions in their endowments caused by the 2008 stock market collapse. We find that the average...
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Fettered Consumers and Sophisticated Firms: Evidence from Mexico's Privatized Social Security Market
Duarte, Fabian; Hastings, Justine S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper brings new evidence from the privatized social security system in Mexico, offering insight into investment behavior and the efficacy of government "nudges" in the context of profit maximizing firms. We use administrative data from the social security system surrounding the government...
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Management Practices, Relational Contracts, and the Decline of General Motors
Helper, Susan; Henderson, Rebecca - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the US market fell from 62.6 to 19.8 percent, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this paper we argue that the conventional explanation for this decline -...
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The Importance (or not) of Patents to UK Firms
Hall, Bronwyn H; Helmers, Christian; Rogers, Mark; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
A surprisingly small number of innovative firms use the patent system. In the UK, the share of firms patenting among those reporting that they have innovated is about 4%. Survey data from the same firms support the idea that they do not consider patents or other forms of registered IP as...
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Advertising and Competition in Privatized Social Security: The Case of Mexico
Syverson, Chad; Hastings, Justine S.; Hortaçsu, Ali - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper examines how advertising impacts competition and equilibrium prices in the context of a privatized pension market. We use detailed administrative data on fund manager choices and worker characteristics at the inception of Mexico's privatized social security system, where fund managers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951291
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The Effect of Uncertainty on Investment: Evidence from Texas Oil Drilling
Kellogg, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Despite widespread application of real options theory in the literature, the extent to which firms actually delay irreversible investments following an increase in the uncertainty of their environment is not empirically well-known. This paper estimates firms' responsiveness to changes in...
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