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evolution over time of four fundamental aspects of their productivity: i) training duration; ii) time to a first publication …; iii) productivity over the training period; and iv) collaboration with other scientists. We identified four main trends …
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productivity. Within a given teamwork setting, it is not obvious how group member diversity affects the performance of the …
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This article reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than one country while others do not? Second, what determines in which countries production facilities are...
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We provide theoretical and empirical evidence on the evolution and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Heterogeneity in innovation, given a cost of commercialization, results in NPEs that choose to act as "patent trolls" that chase operating firms'...
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knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues like the evolution of wage inequality, the growth and productivity of firms …
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This paper studies the distribution of employment growth when firms adjust asymmetrically to dispersed but correlated signals. If hiring decisions respond more to bad news than to good news, both aggregate conditional volatility ("macro-volatility") and the cross sectional dispersion of...
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This paper is a study of the shape and structure of the distribution of prices at which an identical good is sold in a given market and time period. We find that the typical price distribution is symmetric and leptokurtic, with a standard deviation between 19% and 36%. Only 10% of the variance...
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What determines firm growth over the life-cycle? Exploiting unique firm panel data on internal organization, balance sheets and innovation, representative of the entire Canadian economy, we study recent theories that examine life-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include...
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We explore how changes in ownership and managerial control affect the productivity and profitability of producers … century, we find a more nuanced picture than the straightforward "higher productivity buys lower productivity" story commonly … gains in capacity utilization that raised both their productivity and profitability levels, consistent with acquiring owner …
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Over the last decade, generic penetration in the U.S. pharmaceutical market has increased substantially, providing significant gains in consumer surplus. What impact has this rise in generic penetration had on the rate and direction of early stage pharmaceutical innovation? We explore this...
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