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World War I and the Restructuring of International Business
Fertik, Ted - 2020
This paper considers the effect of the First World War on large-scale businesses in Second … the construction of massive steel works in Brazil and other industrializing countries around the world. These investments … would provide the foundation for the import-substituting policies of the post-World War II era …
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The Long-Term Effects of Industrial Policy
Choi, Jaedo; Levchenko, Andrei A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper provides causal evidence of the impact of industrial policy on firms' long-term performance and quantifies industrial policy's long-term welfare effects. Using a natural experiment and unique historical data during the Heavy and Chemical Industry (HCI) Drive in South Korea, we find...
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Implications for Energy Innovation from the chemical industry
Arora, Ashish - 2010
The history of innovation in the chemical industry offers many insights for accelerating energy innovation. In this chapter, we begin by laying out the early history of the chemical industry for an overview of the role innovation has played in its development. We then explore three noteworthy...
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Costs of Air Quality Regulation
Becker, Randy A. - 1999
This paper explores some costs associated with environmental regulation. We focus on regulation pertaining to ground-level ozone (O3) and its effects on two manufacturing industries -- industrial organic chemicals (SIC 2865-9) and miscellaneous plastic products (SIC 308). Both are major emitters...
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Market Entry Costs, Producer Heterogeneity, and Export Dynamics
Das, Sanghamitra - 2001
As the exchange rate, foreign demand, production costs and export promotion policies evolve, manufacturing firms are continually faced with two issues: Whether to be an exporter, and if so, how much to export. We develop a dynamic structural model of export supply that characterizes these two...
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Is Pollution Value-Maximizing? The DuPont Case
Shapira, Roy - 2017
DuPont, one of the most respectable U.S. companies, caused environmental damage that ended up costing the company around a billion dollars. By using internal company documents disclosed in trials we rule out the possibilities that this bad outcome was due to ignorance, an unexpected realization,...
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The Structure of Firm R&D and the Factor Intensity of Production
Adams, James D. - 1997
This paper studies the influence of the structure of firm R&D, industry R&D spillovers, and plant level physical capital on the factor intensity of production. By the structure of firm R&D we mena its distribution across states and products. By factor intensity we mena the cost shares of...
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Investment in Capital Assets and Economic Performance : The U.S. Chemicals and Primary Metals Industries in Transition
Morrison, Catherine J. - 1991
The effects of market and technological conditions on the investment and markup behavior of firms, and their resulting impacts on economic performance, are closely interrelated and complex. In this paper determinants of and linkages among these are explored for two industries with very different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475165
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Chemical Fertilizer and Migration in China
Ebenstein, Avraham - 2011
This paper examines a possible connection between China's massive rural to urban migration and high chemical fertilizer use rates during the late 1980s and 1990s. Using panel data on villages in rural China (1987-2002), we find that labor out-migration and fertilizer use per hectare are...
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Could the U.S. Iron Industry Have Survived Free Trade After the Civil War?
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2000
An unresolved question concerning post-Civil War U.S. industrialization is the degree to which import tariffs protected domestic manufacturers from foreign competition. This paper considers the impact of import tariffs on the domestic pig iron industry, the basic building block of the entire...
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