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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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infrastructure on economic performance in terms of gains in profits, cost savings, as well as in terms of productivity growth … productivity growth reveals that the economic performance could be enhanced by investing in infrastructure capital …
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firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …
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within Japan, we find that the measures of sectoral productivity do not behave in the way suggested by the Balassa …
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tech cluster to form. Not only is the productivity of the final sector higher when intermediate firms cluster, but a tech …
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Technological innovations facilitating e-commerce have well-documented effects on consumer behavior and firm organization in the retail sector, but the effects of these new transaction technologies on fiscal systems remain unknown. By extending models of commodity tax competition to include...
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productivity advantage fully eroded in the subsequent period. We explore the nature of local spillovers responsible for this …
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Larger cities typically give rise to two opposite effects: tougher competition among firms and higher production costs. Using an urban model with substitutability of production factors and pro-competitive effects, I study the response of the market outcome to city size, land-use regulations, and...
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price shocks. Following a migrant inflow, labor costs decline and employment expands. Labor productivity decreases sharply … migration mostly benefits low- productivity firms within locations. As migrants select into high-productivity destinations …, migration however strongly contributes to the equalization of factor productivity across locations …
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This paper assesses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexican manufacturing plants’ prices and markups. We distinguish between Mexican goods that are exported and those sold domestically, and decompose their prices separately into markups and marginal costs. We then...
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