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discussion on the limitations and challenges related to different port types and their specific needs. …
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Root-cause identification for quality and productivity related problems are key issues for manufacturing processes. It …
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This paper examines endogenous quality provision by firms with market power when social influence plays a role in consumers' purchasing decisions. A monopolist chooses price and quality of a single product to sell to consumers with unit mass. Quality has two dimensions: m-quality, which...
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switch sites. In this paper, we look at the productivity and quality implications of multi-site work. To estimate the effect … productivity. Specifically, for each additional site at which a physician works, we observe a 2% increase in patient length of stay …
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We first develop techniques for identifying the configuration of a body assembly system. These techniques are essential because of the increasingly sophisticated hardware adopted in modern automotive assembly plants. Then we use these techniques to benchmark the system configurations of three...
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This paper proposes a novel method to estimate productivity and quality at the firm-product level, together with … between observed data and unobserved productivity and quality. It has the advantage of allowing for heterogeneous unobserved … relying on productivity evolution. We apply this method to a set of Mexican manufacturing industries. We find that multi …
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Production functions provide a mapping from the firms' input quantity and productivity to output quantity. This mapping …
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This study uses a new dataset to provide comparative gaps, benchmarking with best performers and policy syndromes of …
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