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Affiliate Activity in Japanese and U.S. Multinationals and Japanese Exports, 1986-1995
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2001
This study examines the relationship between Japan's manufactured exports to individual markets and the economic … in the context of a typical gravity model explaining the cross-country variation of Japan's manufacturing exports. Second … analyzes the relation of changes in Japanese exports to levels of and changes in employment in Japanese and U.S. MNC affiliates …
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents
Autor, David - 2016
The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze or stifle innovation. Using three distinct sources of variation to identify rising trade exposure, we provide a causal analysis of the effect of surging import competition on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455801
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The Impact of Plant-level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth
Petrin, Amil - 2011
We build up from the plant level an "aggregate(d)" Solow residual by estimating every U.S. manufacturing plant's contribution to the change in aggregate final demand between 1976 and 1996. Our framework uses the Petrin and Levinsohn (2010) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461957
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Does the Structure of Banking Markets Affect Economic Growth? Evidence from U.S. State Banking Markets
Mitchener, Kris James - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between the structure of banking markets and economic growth using a new dataset on manufacturing industry-level growth rates and banking market concentration for U.S. states during 1899-1929--a period when the manufacturing sector was expanding rapidly and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462942
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Structural Change Within versus Across Firms : Evidence from the United States
Ding, Xiang; Fort, Teresa C.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document the role of intangible capital in manufacturing firms' substantial contribution to non-manufacturing employment growth from 1977-2019. Exploiting data on firms' "auxiliary" establishments, we develop a novel measure of proprietary in-house knowledge and show that it is associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334346
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Exports and Foreign Investment in Manufacturing Industries
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1976
One of the main purposes of our studies of U.S.-based multinational firms has been to examine the relationship between direct investment by U.S. firms and the export trade of the United States, a subject of bitter controversy for at least the last fifteen years. Changes over time in trade flows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478996
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Venting Out : Exports During a Domestic Slump
Almunia, Miguel - 2018
could well have accounted for around one-half of the spectacular increase in Spanish goods exports (the so-called 'Spanish …
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Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size
Holmes, Thomas J. - 2010
The fact that large manufacturing plants export relatively more than small plants has been at the foundation of much work in the international trade literature. We examine this fact using Census micro data on plant shipments from the Commodity Flow Survey. We show the fact is not entirely an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462606
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The Contribution of Trade to Wage Inequality : The Role of Skill, Gender, and Nationality
Klein, Michael W. - 2010
high-skilled workers represents up to one third of their overall skill premium. But, while an increase in exports increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462668
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R&D Investment, Exporting, and Productivity Dynamics
Aw, Bee Yan - 2009
A positive correlation between productivity and export market participation has been well documented in producer micro data. Recent empirical studies and theoretical analyses have emphasized that this may reflect the producer's other investment activities, particularly investments in R&D or new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463977