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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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Total Factor Productivity (TFP), the empirical evidence on agglomeration externalities rests on measures obtained using firm … suggests that the revenue productivity advantage of denser areas is mainly driven by higher prices charged rather than …-level differences in productivity across space …
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this paper, we investigate whether higher productivity causally leads to lower tax evasion. We first present stylized facts … emerging and developing economies. Our results suggests that productivity improvements by firms can lead to lower tax evasion …
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We use transaction-level US import data to compare firms from virtually all countries in the world competing in a single destination market. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we decompose countries. market shares into the contribution of the number of firm-products, their average...
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We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of … Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for the distributions of productivity and sales to have the same form …
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We study the nature of peer effects in the market for new cell phones. Our analysis builds on de-identified data from Facebook that combine information on social networks with information on users’ cell phone models. To identify peer effects, we use variation in friends’ new phone...
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productivity differences and internal trade frictions. We show that even in the absence of the typical externalities studied in the … relative to that chosen by a planner. In particular, optimal urbanization exceeds decentralized levels when productivity … closer to optimal policies than decentralized allocations whenever productivity differences in non-traded sectors are either …
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marriage premium within a given productivity group, as well as a clear ranking of premia across different groups. We find …
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This paper analyzes how exporters are affected by corporate tax reforms in destination markets. We introduce tax policy in a trade model of multi-product firms and show that producers face tougher competition in export markets with lower corporate tax rates. This competitive effect induces firms...
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How do exporters expand their product scope and geographical presence? We argue that new exporters are uncertain about their profitability in different countries and products, but learn it as they start to export. As a consequence, exporters add products and countries sequentially, in an...
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