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We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
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Uncertainty varies strongly over time, rising by 50% to 100% in recessions and by up to 200% after major economic and political shocks. This paper shows that higher uncertainty reduces the responsiveness of R&D to changes in business conditions - a "caution-effect" - making it more persistent...
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When will reducing trade barriers against a low wage country cause innovation to increase in high wage regions like the … cost of innovating falls. Interestingly, the "China shock" is more likely to induce innovation than liberalization with … be faster long-run growth through innovation in the US and that, in the short run, this is magnified by the trapped …
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innovation. …
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long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated … inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional "trapped factor" effect. Starting …
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discuss some implications of the big shift for pay, productivity, and the pace of innovation. Over the next five years, U …
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The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art languageprocessing framework that we fit, test, and refine...
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We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better managed firms are significantly...
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, higher rates of innovation and faster employment growth. Second, there is a substantial dispersion of management practices …
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some evidence it may stimulate longer-run innovation. Finally, in terms of the Great Recession, the large jump in …
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