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We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...
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economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been … restrictions on direct foreign investment in service sectors.Also, it may beasked why,if growth is to be the criterion of special … negotiating effort, the commodity-service dichotomy is relevant. Why not search for fast qrowing sectors amonq cammodities as well …
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Digital platforms are increasingly the subject of regulatory scrutiny. In comparison to multiple competitors, a single platform may increase consumer welfare if network effects are large or may decrease welfare due to higher prices or reduction in platform variety. We study the net effect of...
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Between 1973 and 2003, abortion providers in the United States were the targets of over 300 acts of extreme violence. Using unique data on attacks and on abortions, abortion providers, and births, we examine how anti-abortion violence has affected providers' decisions to perform abortions and...
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The basic gains-from-trade theorem makes a stark comparison between completely free trade and complete autarky. This paper is motivated by recent evidence that trade has greatly expanded on the extensive margin (aka fragmentation, offshoring) by adding newly traded goods and services and that...
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pollutants does the service sector account for even four percent of total emissions; for three of the five services account for … less than one percent. Second, those service industries that do pollute are the least likely to be traded internationally … services are not traded. Even if we limit attention to the services that are traded across borders, the service industries most …
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and diversified in their service offerings and are less likely to do so with increasing age and greater geographical scope …
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This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic and structural factors, including trade in business services and foreign direct investment (FDI), using simple descriptive regressions for a panel of OECD economies between 1996...
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