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This paper analyzes the evolution of the distributions of output and employment across firms in U.S. manufacturing industries from 1963 until 1997. The evolutions of the employment and output distributions differ, but display strong inter-industry regularities, including that the nature of the...
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This paper examines the relationship between employer-sponsored offers of health insurance and establishments’ labor productivity. Our empirical work is based on unique plant level data that links the 1997 and 2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component with the 1992, 1997, and...
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In part due to the popular perception that Big-Boxes displace smaller, often family owned (a.k.a. Mom-and-Pop) retail establishments, several empirical studies have examined the evidence on how Big-Boxes’ impact local retail employment but no clear consensus has emerged. To help shed light on...
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This study investigates whether institutional bond blockholders (i.e., bond funds that hold more than 5% of a firm’s outstanding bonds) impede firm innovative activities, and if they do, through which channels. We find that long-term bond blockholders do not discourage firms from conducting...
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We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
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Economic interest in innovation policy largely arises from the fundamental importance of innovation to social welfare … and from inefficiencies in innovation in a competitive market environment. As a result, a wide variety of public … innovation policies are used in practice. This study reviews the economic justifications for public innovation policies and …
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framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations …
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This paper uses new business micro data from the Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) for … the years 2008-2011 to relate the discrete innovation choices made by U.S. companies to features of the company that have … long been considered to be important correlates of innovation. We use multinomial logit to model those choices. Bloch and …
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The innovation activities of companies has long been a topic of interest in economics. Game theory models of oligopoly … have since the start of the 1980s played a central role in the economics of innovation. In this study three game theory … model is used to study patenting decisions by a company that has made an innovation. A company can monopolize its innovation …
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. The main contribution of this paper is to model the innovation channel of finance explicitly. The paper focuses … particularly on the interaction term between the measure of own innovation and financial development. As countries approach the … technological frontier, own innovation becomes more important to sustain a high growth rate. An adequate level of financial …
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