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An Engine of (Pay) Growth? Productivity and Wages in the UK Auto Industry
Norris Keiller, Agnes; Obermeier, Tim; Teichgraeber, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, but we estimate that TFP still grew three times as fast in the auto industry than the rest of manufacturing. Examining …-fold increase in manufacturing. Greater foreign ownership, tougher competition and improved industrial relations all likely played a … wage growth than workers in the rest of manufacturing. After controlling for individual fixed effects, the auto wage …
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Intangible Marketing Capital
Bronnenberg, Bart J.; Dubé, Jean-Pierre H.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We present several empirical facts about trends in marketing investment in the US. We also present estimates of the private value of brands to firms and aggregate intangible brand capital stocks created by these investments. These investments include the creation and maintenance of a brand name...
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Algorithmic Pricing : Implications for Consumers, Managers, and Regulators
Spann, Martin; Bertini, Marco; Koenigsberg, Oded; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Over the past decade, an increasing number of firms have delegated pricing decisions to algorithms in consumer markets such as travel, entertainment, and retail; business markets such as digital advertising; and platform markets such as ride-sharing. This trend, driven primarily by the increased...
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Spatial Competition, Strategic Entry Responses, and the North Dakota Railroad War of 1905
Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The North Dakota Railroad War of 1905, which pitted a potential entrant (the Soo Line) against an established monopolist incumbent (the Great Northern Railway), offers a lucid empirical example of strategic behavior, and in particular the potential for entry deterrence through product...
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Stress Testing Structural Models of Unobserved Heterogeneity : Robust Inference on Optimal Nonlinear Pricing
Bodoh-Creed, Aaron L.; Hickman, Brent R.; List, John A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In this paper, we provide a suite of tools for empirical market design, including optimal nonlinear pricing in intensive-margin consumer demand, as well as a broad class of related adverse-selection models. Despite significant data limitations, we are able to derive informative bounds on demand...
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Foreign Competition and Innovation
Helpman, Elhanan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Empirical studies have found that enhanced foreign competition can encourage or discourage innovation. To address this relationship, I examine a market structure in which a small number of large multi-product oligopolists compete with a large number of small single-product firms in the same...
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Accounting for the Evolution of China's Production and Trade Patterns
Huang, Hanwei; Ju, Jiandong; Yue, Vivian Z. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the evolution of China's production and trade patterns during its integration into the global economy. We document and explain new facts concerning changes in production and exports at the industry and firm levels using microdata and a quantitative Ricardian and...
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The Changing Firm and Country Boundaries of US Manufacturers in Global Value Chains
Fort, Teresa C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
perform physical transformation tasks in-house using foreign manufacturing plants in 2007 also own US manufacturing plants …; moreover manufacturing comprises their main domestic activity. By contrast, "factoryless goods producers" outsource all … distinct firm type is missing from standard analyses of manufacturing, growing in importance, and increasingly reliant on …
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Automation, Career Values, and Political Preferences
Petrova, Maria; Schubert, Gregor; Taska, Bledi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Career opportunities and expectations shape people's decisions and can diminish over time. In this paper, we study the career implications of automation and robotization using a novel data set of resumes from approximately 16 million individuals from the United States. We calculate the lifetime...
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Globalization and Profitability of US Firms : The Role of Intangibles
Chintha, Bullipe R.; Jagannathan, Ravi; Sridhar, Sri S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
China's admission into the WTO in 2001 heralded a new era of globalization, increasing both import competition in domestic markets and foreign opportunities for US firms. In the aggregate, the average annual profitability of US public firms during the post globalization period (2003-2019)...
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