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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 … that capital deepening made China's production and exports more capital-intensive, although labor-biased productivity …
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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
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Committing to Grow : Privatizations and Firm Dynamics in East Germany
Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Diegmann, André; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
% points higher annual productivity growth, and a 3.6% points higher probability of exit for firms with binding employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337877
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Causal Interpretation of Structural IV Estimands
Andrews, Isaiah; Barahona, Nano; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
differentiated goods demand with endogenous prices and models of production with endogenous inputs …
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Are Supply Networks Efficiently Resilient?
Capponi, Agostino; Du, Chuan; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
production capacity to hedge against supply and demand shocks. But the social benefits of such investments are not internalized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512075
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Misallocation in Firm Production : A Nonparametric Analysis Using Procurement Lotteries
Carrillo, Paul E.; Donaldson, Dave; Pomeranz, Dina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How costly is the misallocation of production that we might expect to result from distortions such as market power …
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Techies and Firm Level Productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by using French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation,...
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Concentration, Market Power, and Misallocation : The Role of Endogenous Customer Acquisition
Afrouzi, Hassan; Drenik, Andres; Kim, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper explores how different margins of market share are related to markups. Using merged microdata on producers and consumers, we document that a firm's market share is mainly related to its number of customers, while its price-cost markup is associated only with its average sales per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322802
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Remote Work and City Structure
Monte, Ferdinando; Porcher, Charly; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
CBD allows them to interact with other commuters, which enhances their productivity through a standard production …
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Learning, Sophistication, and the Returns to Advertising : Implications for Differences in Firm Performance
Tadelis, Steve; Hooton, Christopher; Manjeer, Utsav; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Why do establishments exhibit wide variation in their productivity and profitability? Can variation in returns to advertising help answer this question? We present results from a large field experiment on Facebook and Instagram that documents variance in advertisers' ability to generate returns...
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