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The Complementary Role of Exports and R&D Investments as Sources of Productivity Growth

Roberts, Mark J.; Aw, Bee Yan; Winston, Tor - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper examines two potential channels of knowledge acquisition that underlie firm productivity growth in the Taiwanese electronics industry: participation in the export market and investments in R&D and/or worker training. We focus on the argument that a firm's own investments in R&D are...

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Firm-level Evidence on Productivity Differentials, Turnover, and Exports in Taiwanese Manufacturing

Roberts, Mark J.; Aw, Bee Yan; Chen, Xiaomin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

The manufacturing sector in Taiwan has a market structure composed of large numbers of small firms, a focus on less capital-intensive industries, and a dense network of firms specializing in subcontracting and trading services. It has been argued that these features lower the start-up costs of...

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Productivity and the Decision to Export: Micro Evidence from Taiwan and South Korea

Roberts, Mark J.; Aw, Bee Yan; Chung, Sukkyun - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

While there is widespread empirical evidence indicating exporting producers have higher productivity than nonexporters, the mechanisms that generate this pattern are less clear. One view is that exporters acquire knowledge of new production methods, inputs, and product designs from their...

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The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments

Rosenzweig, Mark; Munshi, Kaivan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Parochial politics is typically associated with poor leadership and low levels of public good provision. This paper explores the possibility that community involvement in politics need not necessarily worsen governance and, indeed, can be efficiency-enhancing when the context is appropriate....

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Co-residence, Life-Cycle Savings and Inter-generational Support in Urban China

Rosenzweig, Mark; Zhang, Junsen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We use unique data characterizing individual savings for twins and non-twins in urban China to examine why the savings … necessary to take into account inter-generational co-residence, an important phenomenon in China and in many developing … China, but also indicate that in urban China neither old-age support by the young nor the one-child policy are major factors. …

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Forecasting Profitability

Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...

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Networks, Commitment, and Competence: Caste in Indian Local Politics

Rosenzweig, Mark; Munshi, Kaivan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper widens the scope of the emerging literature on economic networks by assessing the role of caste networks in Indian local politics. We test the hypothesis that these networks can discipline their members to overcome political commitment problems, enabling communities to select their...

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