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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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Growth and Risk : A View from International Trade

Krishna, Pravin; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ma, Lin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies the cross-country patterns of risky innovation and growth through the lens of international trade. We use a simple theoretical framework of risky quality upgrading by firms under varying levels of financial development to derive two predictions. First, the mean rate of quality...

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Electoral Violence and Supply Chain Disruptions in Kenya's Floriculture Industry

Ksoll, Christopher; Macchiavello, Rocco; Morjaria, Ameet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Violent conflicts, particularly at election times in Africa, are a common cause of instability and economic disruption. This paper studies how firms react to electoral violence using the case of Kenyan flower exporters during the 2008 post-election violence as an example. The violence induced a...

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The Production and Inventory Behavior of the American Automobile Industry

Blanchard, Olivier J. - 1982

Understanding inventory movements is central to an understanding of business cycles. This paper presents an empirical study of the behavior of inventories in the automobile industry. It finds that inventory behavior is well explained by the assumption of intertemporal optimization with rational...

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Using Payroll Tax Variation to Unpack the Black Box of Firm-Level Production

Benzarti, Youssef - 2020

This paper uses quasi-experimental variation in payroll taxes to estimate their incidence and investigate how firms use their input factors. We find that higher payroll tax rates lead to large employment responses and have no effects on employee earnings. As payroll taxes increase, firms...

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Misallocation in the Market for Inputs : Enforcement and the Organization of Production

Boehm, Johannes - 2018

Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with …

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Railroads and the Rise of the Factory : Evidence for the United States, 1850-70

Atack, Jeremy - 2008

Over the course of the nineteenth century manufacturing in the United States shifted from artisan shop to factory … of extensive railroad network. Using a newly created data set of manufacturing establishments linked to county level data … on rail access from 1850-70, we ask whether the coming of the railroad increased establishment size in manufacturing …

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The Antebellum U.S. Iron Industry : Domestic Production and Foreign Competition

Davis, Joseph H. - 2007

This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to 1827. These estimates are used to assess the vulnerability of the antebellum iron industry to foreign competition and the role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early...

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Aggregate Shocks or Aggregate Information? Costly Information and Business Cycle Comovement

Veldkamp, Laura - 2006

Synchronized expansions and contractions across sectors define business cycles. Yet synchronization is puzzling because productivity across sectors exhibits weak correlation. While previous work examined production complementarity, our analysis explores complementarity in information...

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Cheap Labor Meets Costly Capital : The Impact of Devaluations on Commodity Firms

Forbes, Kristin J. - 2002

This paper examines how devaluations affect the relative costs of labor and capital and therefore influence production, profitability, investment, and stock returns for firms in the 'crisis' country as well as competitors in the rest of the world. After developing these ideas in a small,...

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