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What Can Stockouts Tell Us About Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data

Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2021 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in shortages in nearly all sectors early in the pandemic. Over time, the composition of...

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The Link Between Aggregate and Micro Productivity Growth : Evidence from Retail Trade

Foster, Lucia - 2002

Understanding the nature and magnitude of resource reallocation, particularly as it relates to productivity growth, is important both because it affects how we model and interpret aggregate productivity dynamics, and also because market structure and institutions may affect the reallocation's...

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Why are Retail Prices in Japan so High? : Evidence from German Export Prices

Knetter, Michael M. - 1994

-digit German export industries studied here, the data are consistent with this implication. Prices on shipments to Japan …

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Global retail lending in the aftermath of the US financial crisis : Distinguishing between supply and demand effects

Puri, Manju - 2011

This paper examines the broader effects of the US financial crisis on global lending to retail customers. In particular we examine retail bank lending in Germany using a unique data set of German savings banks during the period 2006 through 2008 for which we have the universe of loan...

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The Contribution of Trade to Wage Inequality : The Role of Skill, Gender, and Nationality

Klein, Michael W. - 2010

claim, we find a significant export wage premium for high-skilled workers in German manufacturing and an export wage … discount for lower skilled workers, using matched employer-employee data. Estimates suggest that the export wage premium to …

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Export Entry and Exit by German Firms

Bernard, Andrew B. - 1998

This paper examines the decision to enter the export market by German firms. While exports have played an important … role in recent German business cycle movements, little is known about the export supply response of German firms. This … paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of German manufacturing …

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Are Investment Incentives Blunted by Changes in Prices of Capital Goods?

Hassett, Kevin A. - 1999

Recent research on business investment decisions suggests that real investment in plant and equipment is quite sensitive to changes in the user cost of capital, pointing to the possibility that long-run changes in tax policy may have a significant impact on an economy's capital stock. Indeed,...

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Capital Goods Prices, Global Capital Markets and Accumulation : 1870-1950

Collins, William J. - 1999

Conventional wisdom has it that global financial markets were as well integrated in the 1890s as in the 1990s, but that it took several post-war decades to regenerate the connections that existed before 1914. This view has emerged from a variety of tests for world financial capital market...

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Delayed Creative Destruction : How Uncertainty Shapes Corporate Assets

Campello, Murillo; Kankanhalli, Gaurav; Kim, Hyunseob - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We show how uncertainty shapes the asset allocation, composition, productivity, and value of capital-intensive firms. We do so using detailed, near-universal data on shipping firms' new orders, secondary-market transactions, and demolition of ships. Firms curtail both the acquisition and...

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The Investment Network, Sectoral Comovement, and the Changing U.S. Business Cycle

Lehn, Christian vom - 2019

We argue that the input-output network of investment goods across sectors is an important propagation mechanism for understanding business cycles. First, we show that the empirical network is dominated by a few "investment hubs" that produce the majority of investment goods, are highly volatile,...

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