organizational structure and technology of rival banks in the vicinity influence local banking competition. …Recent theoretical models argue that a bank’s organizational structure reflects its lending technology. A …. We investigate theoretically and empirically how bank organization shapes banking competition. Our theoretical model …

We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel, the minimill, on the aggregate productivity of U …'s productivity is linked to this new technology, and operates through two distinct mechanisms. First, minimills displaced the older … technology, called vertically integrated production, and this reallocation of output was responsible for a third of the increase …

technology (like R&D). Technologies can account for up to a quarter of the growth in demand for the college educated in the …

differences, unobserved region-industry factor quality differences and variation in production technology across industries. We … findings, including multiple cones of diversification, region-industry technology differences, agglomeration, and increasing …

relationship between technology intensity and vertical integration from a simple incomplete contracts model. Then, we investigate … find that the technology intensities of downstream (producer) and upstream (supplier) industries have opposite effects on … measures of technology intensity, with alternative estimation strategies, and with or without controlling for a number of firm …

computerization instead of R&D as a measure of technology; (iv) in the Anglo-Saxon countries a maximum of one-third of the aggregate …

management, as a key factor. A model of the interaction between technology, organization and economic performance is then … adjustment in technology-using sectors if it is not suited to the social capabilities of the society; (4) reversal of …