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Growing Like China : Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position
Chor, Davin - 2020
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...
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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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Making the Numbers? "Short Termism" & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
Repenning, Nelson P. - 2010
industry to the low penetration of techniques such as TQM and continuous improvement. Yet a vigorous tradition in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462289
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Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance
Guzman, Jorge - 2015
A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial quality across firms. This paper develops a new approach for estimating entrepreneurial quality by linking the probability of a growth outcome (e.g., achieving an IPO or a...
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Technology and Production Fragmentation : Domestic versus Foreign Sourcing
Fort, Teresa C. - 2016
This paper provides direct empirical evidence on the relationship between technology and firms' global sourcing strategies. Using new data on U.S. firms' decisions to contract for manufacturing services from domestic or foreign suppliers, I show that a firm's adoption of communication technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456129
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Production Chains
Levine, David K. - 2010
More advanced technologies demand higher degrees of specialization - and longer chains of production connecting raw inputs to final outputs. Longer production chains are subject to a "weakest link" effect: they are more fragile and more prone to failure. Optimal chain length is determined by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462086
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The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions : Evidence from the Training Within Industry Program
Bianchi, Nicola; Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper examines the long-term and spillover effects of management interventions on firm performance. Under the Training Within Industry (TWI) program, the U.S. government provided management training to firms involved in war production between 1940 and 1945. Using a newly collected panel...
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Weathering the Storm : Supply Chains and Climate Risk
Castro-Vincenzi, Juanma; Khanna, Gaurav; Morales, Nicolas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
-to-firm transactions from an Indian state, we show that firms diversify sourcing locations, and suppliers exposed to climate risk charge … climate shock against higher input costs. We quantify the model using data on 271 Indian districts, showing real wages vary …
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Supply Chain Resilience : Evidence from Indian Firms
Khanna, Gaurav; Morales, Nicolas; Pandalai-Nayar, Nitya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-to-firm transactions from an Indian state, we identify firms with larger supplier risk following the Covid-19 lockdowns. Using an event …
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Management and Misallocation in Mexico
Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...
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