This Paper first documents the comparative productivity performance of the United States and Britain since 1870 … management, as a key factor. A model of the interaction between technology, organization and economic performance is then … must be analysed if the major changes in comparative productivity performance among nations are to be understood fully; (2 …

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 …

the valuation for the other product. This provides some foundations for the phenomenon of versioning, which has been … alternative pricing policies: in the partially-discriminatory case, producers make use of the known information only; in the fully …

video version, and has to decide on its versioning and sequencing strategy. In contrast with the previous literature, we … optimal to introduce versioning if the goods are not too substitutes for one anoher, even when production costs are zero (pure …

job creation in the US, is its slower productivity growth. This paper begins with data showing that US productivity growth … has been essentially zero since 1973 outside of manufacturing. In contrast, productivity growth in US manufacturing has …

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …

In this paper, we examine how cross-market price restrictions impact strategic entry and pricing decisions. A …