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We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor … productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R …
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function, total factor productivity, price markups over marginal costs, output prices, output quantities, a demand system, and …
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productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …
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We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …
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Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal effects is notoriously difficult. Using admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings' college options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile,...
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We analyze the effect and welfare implications of taxing multinational digital platforms on the global online advertising market. Using a novel dataset on advertising prices and product preferences of users from Facebook in OECD countries, jointly with international trade data, we show that an...
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spillover effect on the third main candidate (neither the target nor the attacker). This effect is confirmed in our survey …
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The objective of this paper is to analyze whether successful environmental policies spread across geographical space. We examine the existence of such environmental spatial policy spillovers using the example of wastewater treatment in Mexican municipalities. Untreated wastewater is a key...
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discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from one district in Florida, we find positive spillover … effects from an older to a younger child in less affluent families and negative spillover effects from a younger to an older …
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This article provides a possible explanation for the heterogeneity of tax reaction functions under tax competition. In particular, we assume the existence of three jurisdictions, i, j and z, as well as of spillovers. Given this simple framework, we show that if jurisdictions compete to attract...
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