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We show that supply networks are inefficiently, and insufficiently, resilient. Upstream firms can expand their production capacity to hedge against supply and demand shocks. But the social benefits of such investments are not internalized due to market power and market incompleteness. Upstream...
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that capital deepening made China's production and exports more capital-intensive, although labor-biased productivity …
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of substitution between capital and labor is greater than one. However, the vast majority of micro-level estimates shows … that capital and labor are complements (elasticity less than one). Using firm- and establishment-level data from Korea, we … divide capital into equipment and software, as they may interact with labor in different ways. Our estimation shows that …
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current output and containing capital inflows to lower the likelihood of a future recession, but leaning against the wind is … not necessarily optimal. Finally, contrary to emerging policy concerns, capital controls can enhance global stability …
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We show that firms' nominal required returns to capital (i.e., their discount rates) are sticky with respect to …
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This paper estimates that the macroeconomic damages from climate change are six times larger than previously thought. We exploit natural variability in global temperature and rely on time-series variation. A 1°C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world GDP. Global...
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We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large employer-employee panel dataset spanning 2009-2020. Our firm-level results confirm previous findings, with positive effects on value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms...
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National industrial concentration in the U.S. has risen sharply since the early 1980s, but there remains dispute over whether local geographic concentration has followed a similar trend. Using near population data from the Economic Censuses, we confirm and extend existing evidence on national...
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effects between five and eight years. R&D spending and capital investment display hump-shaped responses while hours worked and …
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Aggregate data show a large and decades-long decline in construction sector productivity. This decline in such a large sector has had a material effect on secular productivity growth for the economy as a whole. Prior work has focused on the role of potential measurement problems in construction,...
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