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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition : The Effect of Trade Liberalization
Guadalupe, Maria - 2008
This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. We exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i)...
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Indian Manufacturing Industry : Elephant or Tiger? New Evidence on the Asian Miracle
Hulten, Charles R. - 1999
We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and compare the results to those obtained by Young for the East Asian Tigers. We then interpret our results in light of Krugman's hypothesis that, because the Asian Miracle was...
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Infrastructure Investment and Labor Monopsony Power
Brooks, Wyatt; Kaboski, Joseph Paul; Kondo, Illenin O.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
using an expansion of the national highway system in India. Using panel data on manufacturing firms, we find that monopsony …
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2011
, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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Factor Utilization in Indian Manufacturing : A Look at the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys Data
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2008
We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian manufacturing. We focus on disparities among states in manufacturing employment patterns, and provide reduced form evidence of their relationship to both (i) institutional...
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The Unequal Effects of Liberalization : Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India
Aghion, Philippe - 2006
We study the effects of the progressive elimination of the system of industrial regulations on entry and production, known as the "license raj," on registered manufacturing output, employment, entry and investment across Indian states with different labor market regulations. The effects are...
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India's Patterns of Development : What Happened, What Follows
Kochhar, Kalpana - 2006
India seems to have followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared to other fast-growing Asian … economies. While the emphasis on services rather than manufacturing has been widely noted, within manufacturing India has … they stem from the idiosyncratic policies adopted soon after India's independence. We then look to the future, using the …
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Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations and Labor-Demand Elasticities : Empirical Evidence from India
Hasan, Rana - 2003
Using industry-level data disaggregated by states, this paper finds a positive impact of trade liberalization on labor-demand elasticities in the Indian manufacturing sector. These elasticities turn out to be negatively related to protection levels that vary across industries and over time....
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Energy Productivity and Energy Demand : Experimental Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Plants
Ryan, Nicholas - 2018
This paper studies a field experiment among energy-intensive Indian manufacturing plants that offered energy consulting to raise energy productivity, the amount plants can produce with each unit of energy. Treatment plants, after two years and relative to the control, run longer hours, demand...
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How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Industry? Evidence from India
Allcott, Hunt - 2014
hydroelectric power availability. We estimate that India's average reported level of shortages reduces the average plant's revenues …
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