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The Adoption of Non-Rival Inputs and Firm Scope
Jiang, Xian; Rubinton, Hannah - 2024
Custom software is distinct from other types of capital in that it is non-rival—once a firm makes an investment in custom software, it can be used simultaneously across its many establishments. Using confidential U.S. Census data, we document that while firms with more establishments are more...
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Information and Communication Technology and Firm Geographic Expansion
Jiang, Xian - 2023
This paper studies how information and communication technology (ICT) affects the firm geographic organization and its implications on aggregate efficiency. ICT can widen firms' geographic span of control by reducing their internal communication costs. Empirical evidence from confidential US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377427
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Information and Communication Technology and Firm Geographic Expansion
Jiang, Xian - 2023
This paper studies how information and communication technology (ICT) affects the firm geographic organization and its implications on aggregate efficiency. ICT can widen firms’ geographic span of control by reducing their internal communication costs. Empirical evidence from confidential US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348140
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Trade Liberalization, Input Intermediaries and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019
We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179786
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Cloud Computing and Firm Growth
DeStefano, Timothy; Kneller, Richard; Timmis, Jonathan - 2020
Cloud computing enables a shift in the costs of ICT adoption from investment in fixed capital to pay-on-demand services allowing firms to scale and reorganize. Using new firm-level data we examine the impact of cloud on firm growth, using zip-code-level instruments of the timing of high-speed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227646
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Trade Liberalization, Input Intermediaries and Firm Productivity : Evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice - 2019
We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857766