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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions

Ghosal, Vivek - 2009

this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by visiting selected paper mills in Finland, the U.S., Germany and … relatively similar firms lends credence to the insights provided by Denrell, Fang and Winter (2003) and Zott (2003), among others … innovative activity in traditional industries such as pulp and paper. -- incremental innovation, ICT investments, modernization …

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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US

Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First,...

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Innovation network

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

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Bounds of unfair inequality of opportunity : theory and evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2012

illustrate our approach by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant, sizeable and robust …

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Assessing the macroeconomic forecasting performance of boosting : evidence for the United States, the Euro Area, and Germany

Buchen, Teresa; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013

to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …

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Cyclicality of real wages in the USA and Germany : new insights from wavelet analysis

Marczak, Martyna; Gómez, Víctor - In: Economic modelling 47 (2015), pp. 40-52

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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003

Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...

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