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India Transformed? Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005
Alfaro, Laura - 2009
Using firm-level data this paper analyzes the transformation of India's economic structure following the implementation …
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Improving Management through Worker Evaluations : Evidence from Auto Manufacturing
Cai, Jing - 2020
Using a randomized experiment with an automobile manufacturing firm in China, we measure the effects of letting workers evaluate their managers on worker and firm outcomes. In the treatment teams, workers evaluate their supervisors monthly. We find that providing feedback leads to significant...
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How Does Outsourcing Affect Performance Dynamics? Evidence from the Automobile Industry
Novak, Sharon - 2007
This paper examines the impact of vertical integration on the dynamics of performance over the automobile product development lifecycle. Building on recent work in organizational economics and strategy, we evaluate the relationship between vertical integration and different performance margins....
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A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2015
This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America : Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2018
We study immigrant entrepreneurship and firm ownership in 2007 and 2012 using the Survey of Business Owners (SBO). The survival and growth of immigrant-owned businesses over time relative to native-founded companies is evaluated by linking the 2007 SBO to the Longitudinal Business Database...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2016
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...
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Estimating Cross-Industry Cross-Country Interaction Models Using Benchmark Industry Characteristics
Ciccone, Antonio - 2016
Empirical cross-industry cross-country models are applied widely in economics, for example to investigate the determinants of economic growth or international trade. Estimation generally relies on US proxies for unobservable technological industry characteristics, for example industries'...
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The New Empirical Economics of Management
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has...
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Indian Manufacturing Industry : Elephant or Tiger? New Evidence on the Asian Miracle
Hulten, Charles R. - 1999
We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and compare the results to those obtained by Young for the East Asian Tigers. We then interpret our results in light of Krugman's hypothesis that, because the Asian Miracle was...
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Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality rate
Philip, Minu - 2020
least partly due to India's younger age distribution. In this paper, we use age-specific fatality rates from 14 comparison …India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, trending from 3% or more, to a current level of … countries, coupled with India's distribution of covid-19 cases to "predict" what India's CFR would be with those age …
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