productivity across sectors exhibits weak correlation. While previous work examined production complementarity, our analysis … production and a low marginal cost of replication, sectors can share the cost to forecast their sector-specific productivity …

Over the course of the nineteenth century manufacturing in the United States shifted from artisan shop to factory … production. At the same time United States experienced a "transportation revolution", a key component of which was the building … of extensive railroad network. Using a newly created data set of manufacturing establishments linked to county level data …

This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to … role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early development. Domestic pig iron production is found to be highly … sensitive to changes in import prices. Although import price fluctuations had a much greater impact on U.S. production than …

what might be called "trade in tasks." We propose a new conceptualization of the global production process that focuses on …

This paper examines how devaluations affect the relative costs of labor and capital and therefore influence production …