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Temperature and Local Industry Concentration

Ponticelli, Jacopo; Xu, Qiping; Zeume, Stefan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use plant-level data from the US Census of Manufacturers to study the short and long run effects of temperature on manufacturing activity. We document that temperature shocks significantly increase energy costs and lower the productivity of small manufacturing plants, while large plants are...

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Mark-up and Cost Dispersion across Firms : Direct Evidence from Producer Surveys in Pakistan

Atkin, David - 2015

Researchers typically invoke theoretical assumptions to estimate mark-ups. Instead, we directly obtain mark-ups by surveying Pakistani soccer-ball producers. We document six facts: (1) Mark-ups are more dispersed than costs; (2) Mark-ups and costs increase with firm size; (3) The mark-up...

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Bank Liquidity Provision Across the Firm Size Distribution

Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2020

's prediction that small firms may be unable to access liquidity when large shocks arrive using data on drawdowns in the COVID … large firms on pre-committed lines of credit. Differences in demand for liquidity cannot fully explain the differences in … and 125 percent of the amount of their PPP funds, suggesting that government-sponsored liquidity can overcome private …

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Monetary Policy, Business Cycles and the Behavior of Small Manufacturing Firms

Gertler, Mark - 1991

We present evidence on the cyclical behavior of small versus large manufacturing firms, and on the response of the two classes of firms to monetary policy. Our goal is to take a step toward quantifying the role of credit market imperfections in the business cycle and in the monetary transmission...

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The Information Content of Dividends : Safer Profits, Not Higher Profits

Michaely, Roni - 2018

opposite direction from that of dividend changes, and larger changes in volatility come with larger announcement returns. We …

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European Pharmaceutical Price Regulation, Firm Profitability, and R&D Spending

Golec, Joseph H. - 2006

affect the profitability, stock returns, and R&D spending of EU and U.S. firms. Compared to EU firms, U.S. firms are more …

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Assessing job flows across countries : the role of industry, firm size and regulations

Haltiwanger, John C. - 2008

"This paper analyzes job flows in a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade, exploiting a harmonized firm-level dataset. It shows that industry and firm size effects (and especially firm size) account for a large fraction in the overall variability in job flows....

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The Firm as a Dedicated Hierarchy : A Theory of the Origin and Growth of Firms

Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2000

A fundamental problem entrepreneurs face in the formative stages of their businesses is how to provide incentives for employees to protect, rather than steal, the source of organizational rents. We study how the entrepreneur's response to this problem will determine the organization's internal...

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Estimating Exchange Rate Exposures : Some "Weighty" Issues

Bodnar, Gordon M. - 2000

From a sample of 910 U.S. firms over the period 1977 1996, we find that structure of the empirical model has significant impacts on resulting estimates of exchange rate exposures from equity returns. While lengthening the return horizon has minimal impact on exposure estimates, the inclusion of...

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Size and Growth of Japanese Plants in the United States

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 1999

Using a unique database on all Japanese manufacturing plants in the United States, we examine the relationship between plant size and growth for these foreign-owned plants. These plants average sizes are three times larger than comparable U.S. plants and experienced 30 percent growth from 1987...

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