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drives low-productivity firms from the small country's home market, replacing them with high-productivity exporters from … abroad. This endogenous policy response creates a selection effect that increases the average productivity of home firms when …
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We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and …
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elsewhere) can be used by multinational firms which have different productivity to serve the market abroad when product chains … abroad by either horizontal or vertical FDI. Upon opening a market to trade, firms with the lowest productivity will exit …, those with intermediate productivity will export, and those with higher productivity will choose fragmentation. Among the …
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Heterogeneous firm productivity seems to provide an argument for governments to pursue ‘pick-the-winner' strategies by …, favoring high-productivity firms is indeed the optimal policy. When tax competition is aggressive and profit taxes are low …, however, the optimal tax policy is reversed and low-productivity firms are tax-favored …
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A growing recent literature relies on a precautionary pricing motive embedded in representative agent DSGE models with sticky prices and wages to generate negative output effects of uncertainty shocks. We assess whether this theoretical model channel is consistent with the data. Building a New...
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output and average productivity, with stronger positive productivity effects for newly imported intermediate inputs. However …
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This paper identifies the mechanism through which financial crises exert long-term negative effects on output. Theory … suggests that a shortfall in productivity-enhancing investments temporarily slows technological progress, creating a gap … the Global Financial Crisis, I show that tight credit reduced investments in productivity-enhancement, and significantly …
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aggregate productivity, resource allocation, and industry export activity along both the extensive and intensive margins. Using … productivity and shipping costs using Chilean plant-level data for a set of manufacturing industries. The estimated model is … consistent with the key features of the data regarding productivity, exporting, and importing. We perform a variety of …
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This paper examines the link between a firm's ownership of productive assets and its choice of foreign-market entry strategy. We find that, controlling for industry - and country-specific characteristics, the most productive firms (i.e., those owning the most assets) will enter through...
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While the output of a team is evident, the productivity of each team member is typically not readily identifiable. In … this paper we consider the problem of measuring the productivity of team members. We propose a new concept of coworker … productivity, which we refer to as eigenvalue productivity (EVP). We demonstrate the existence and uniqueness of our concept and …
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