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International risk-sharing and the transmission of productivity shocks

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Dedola, Luca; Leduc, Sylvain - 2004

A central puzzle in international finance is that real exchange rates are volatile and, in stark contradiction to effcient risk-sharing, negatively correlated with cross-country consumption ratios. This paper shows that incomplete asset markets and a low price elasticity of tradables can account...

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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, HOST COUNTRY PRODUCTIVITY AND EXPORT: THE CASE OF U.S. AND JAPANESE MULTINATIONAL AFFILIATES

Lemi, Adugna - In: Journal of Economic Development 29 (2004) 1, pp. 163-187

The literature on the transfer of technology from FDI to host country firms is growing rapidly. Most of the studies find that there are positive spillover effects from FDI flow to host country firms in advanced economies. The result for the case of FDI recipient developing economies is mixed....

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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity: Evidence from US Cities

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2004

We use data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of city residents. We show that US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born...

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Cities and Cultures

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2004

We investigate the existence of wage premium due to cultural diversity across US cities. Using census data from 1970 to 1990, we find that at the urban level richer diversity is systematically associated with higher average nominal wages for white US-born males. We measure cultural diversity in...

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The relationship among innovative output, productivity, and profitability: a test comparing USPTO and EPO data

Santarelli, Enrico; Lotti, Francesca - 2007

The aim of this paper is to test whether patent-based indicators are still reliable measures of innovativeness in light of organizational changes in the field of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and the regulatory reforms already under way respectively at the U.S. Patent and...

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City air or city markets: productivity gains in urban areas

Krupka, Douglas J. - 2007

Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills in cities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result, however, is that...

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Organizational redesign, information technologies and workplace productivity

Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2008

Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of a production function, augmented to account for technology use and...

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Schools, skills, and synapses

Heckman, James Joseph - 2008

This paper discusses (a) the role of cognitive and noncognitive ability in shaping adult outcomes, (b) the early emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the role of families in creating these abilities, (d)...

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Productivity, investment in ICT and market experimentation: micro evidence from Germany und the US

Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron; Schank, Thorsten - 2003

Kenngrößen wie der Produktivität, der Qualifikationsstruktur und den Löhnen, wobei Mikrodaten für die USA und Deutschland … verwendet wurden. Dabei kann die Hypothese unterstützt werden, dass in den USA Betriebe stärker experimentieren - gemessen … durchschnittlichen Einfluss der Einführung neuer Technologien auf die Produktivität und die Löhne in den USA als in Deutschland. …

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Building new plants or entering by acquisition? Estimation of an entry model for the U.S. cement industry

Perez-Saiz, Hector - 2011

In many industries, firms usually have two choices when expanding into new markets: They can either build a new plant (greenfield entry) or they can acquire an existing incumbent. In the U.S. cement industry, the comparative advantage (e.g., TFP or size) of entrants versus incumbents and...

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