Agglomeration in FDI is typically attributed to location-specific characteristics such as natural resource advantages or production related spillovers between multinational firms. The increasing collocation of the largest global firms in the cement industry since the 1980s is not easily...

This paper uses a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms (1990-2006) and a propensity score reweighting estimator to show that multinational firms acquire the most productive domestic firms, which, on acquisition, conduct more product and process innovation (simultaneously adopting...

Uncertainty about the level of demand is thought to influence irreversible capacity decisions. This paper examines some implications of the theory literature on this topic in an empirical study of the US cement industry between 1994 and 2006. Firms in this sector have the ability to deliver...

Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract with each other directly. Despite this, intermediaries -- called outsourcing agencies -- have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers are high quality....

This paper estimates the magnitude and distribution of surplus from the knowledge worker gig economy using data from an online labor market. Labor demand elasticities determine workers’ wages, and buyers’ past market experience shapes both their job posting frequency and hiring rates. We...