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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents
Autor, David H. - 2019
Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how...
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Comparative Advantage in (Non-)Routine Production
Archanskaia, Liza - 2020
We illustrate a new source of comparative advantage that is generated by countries' different ability to adjust to technological change. Our model introduces substitution of workers in codifiable (routine) tasks with more efficient machines, a process extensively documented in the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836713
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Import Competition, Heterogeneous Preferences of Managers, and Productivity
Chen, Cheng - 2020
may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has … competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially … unproductive. Productivity improvements are driven by family management as opposed to family ownership or non-managing family …
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What Happened to U.S. Business Dynamism?
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019
In the past several decades, the U.S. economy has witnessed a number of striking trends that indicate a rising market concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind these empirical regularities through the lens of...
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The Impact of the Spatial Population Distribution on Economic Growth : Evidence from the United States
Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2022
We look at a part of the spatial angle of economic growth. We introduce a new measure Spatial Population Concentration (SPC) that captures the weighted average population surrounding every person within a geographic area. The weights are a function of the distance between the person in question...
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Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Europe - Past, Present and Future
Duernecker, Georg; Sanchez-Martinez, Miguel - 2021
This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …
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The Impact of Product and Labour Market Reform on Growth : Evidence for OECD Countries Based on Local Projections
de Haan, Jakob - 2020
This paper examines the impact of labour and product market reforms on economic growth in 25 OECD countries between 1985 and 2013, and tests whether this impact is conditioned by the fiscal policy stance, i.e. whether there are fiscal expansions or adjustments. Our local projection results...
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Heavyweights - The Impact of Large Businesses on Productivity Growth
Falck, Oliver - 2021
globalized world has become, again, en vogue among European politicians. The only apparent controversy about the idea revolves … business size in an industry fosters growth in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). The results suggest that the overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316793
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Structural Change in Production Networks and Economic Growth
Gaggl, Paul; Gorry, Aspen; vom Lehn, Christian - 2023
stemming from reallocation induced by structural change. At the same time, productivity growth within the input-output network …
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Does Drawing Down the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Help Stabilize Oil Prices?
Kilian, Lutz - 2019
We study the efficacy of releases from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) within the context of fully specified models of the global oil market that explicitly allow for storage demand as well as unanticipated changes in the SPR. Using novel identifying strategies and evaluation methods,...
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