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The Shrinking Advantage of Market Potential

Brülhart, Marius; Desmet, Klaus; Klinke, Gian-Paolo - 2021

How does a country's economic geography evolve along the development path? This paper documents recent employment growth in 18,961 regions in eight of the world's main economies. Overall, market potential is losing importance, and local density is gaining importance, as correlates of local...

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Productivity, Output, and Failure : A Comparison of Taiwanese and Korean Manufacturers

Aw, Bee Yan - 2012

Industry cost and demand conditions can vary across countries leading to differences in industry market structure, including the distribution of output and productivity across firms and the magnitude of entry and exit flows. It has been argued that despite many outward similarities, two of the...

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Market Structure and Cyclical Fluctuations in U.S. Manufacturing

Domowitz, Ian; Petersen, Bruce C.; Hubbard, R. Glenn - 2021

for the notion that markups are importantly related to differences in industry concentration, though the effect of … unionization is important. Concentration effects are important only in industries producing durable goods or differentiated …

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Product Choice and Product Switching

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - 2021

This paper develops a model of endogenous product selection by firms. The theory is motivated by new evidence we present on the importance of product switching by U.S. manufacturers. Two-thirds of continuing firms change their product mix every five years, and product switches involve more than...

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Does the Structure of Banking Markets Affect Economic Growth? Evidence from U.S. State Banking Markets

Mitchener, Kris James - 2010

on manufacturing industry-level growth rates and banking market concentration for U.S. states during 1899-1929--a period … geographically. Unlike studies of modern developing and developed countries, we find that banking market concentration had a positive … that banking market concentration boosted industrial growth. In addition, we find evidence that a greater prevalence of …

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Investment-Less Growth : An Empirical Investigation

Gutierrez Gallardo, German - 2019

. Industries with more concentration and more common ownership invest less, even after controlling for current market conditions … with more concentration and more common ownership. These firms spend a disproportionate amount of free cash flows buying …

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Are Chinese Markets for Manufactured Products More Competitive than in the Us? : A Comparison of China -Us Industrial Concentration Ratios

Wang, Jun - 2014

We present estimates of 4 and 8 firm concentration ratios by industry and in weighted aggregate form for the … concentration ratios, in the order of one half of the US for 4 firm ratios. One possible implication is that markets for Chinese …

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Heterogeneous Productivity Response to Tariff Reduction : Evidence from Brazilian Manufacturing Firms

Schor, Adriana - 2021

This paper studies the effects of trade liberalization on the evolution of firm productivity. The productivity of each firm was estimated using an unbalanced panel data of 4,484 Brazilian manufacturing firms from 1986 to 1998, following the procedure first proposed by Olley and Pakes (1996) and...

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The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in Gdp/Capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization

Wang, Jing - 2012

This paper focuses on the contribution to recent narrowing of the gap between Northern and Southern economies in GDP/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three currently largest rapidly growing Southern...

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Big BRICS, Weak Foundations : The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

Chaudhary, Latika - 2014

Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50 percent of the world's population in 1910, but remarkably few...

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