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Ten facts on declining business dynamism and lessons from endogenous growth theory

Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T. - 2019

explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …

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Big tech acquisitions and innovation : an empirical assessment

Barsy, Laureen de; Gautier, Axel - 2024

this analysis, we use patent citations as a proxy for the innovation effort by the acquirer. Our main result is to show … that acquisition increases the innovation effort of the acquirer but only temporarily. After 1.5 year, there is no longer a … significant impact of the acquisition on the acquirer’s innovation effort. This decline is relatively larger when the acquired …

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Robots and firms

Koch, Michael; Manuylov, Ilya; Smolka, Marcel - 2019

We study the implications of robot adoption at the level of individual firms using a rich panel data-set of Spanish manufacturing firms over a 27-year period (1990-2016). We focus on three central questions: (1) Which firms adopt robots? (2) What are the labor market effects of robot adoption at...

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The dynamics of automation adoption : firm-level heterogeneity and aggregate employment effects

Bisio, Laura; Cuzzola, Angelo; Grazzi, Marco; … - 2023

We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian … of Italian importing firms and estimate the effects on adopters' outcomes within a difference-indifferences design … exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption …

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Levelized product cost : concept and decision relevance

Reichelstein, Stefan; Rohlfing-Bastian, Anna - 2014

This paper examines a life-cycle cost concept that applies to both manufacturing and service industries in which upfront capacity investments are essential. Borrowing from the energy literature, we refer to this cost measure as the levelized product cost (LC). Per unit of output, the levelized...

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An inquiry into the north-south management gap in China

Yong, Soo Keong; Sen, Partha; Cao, Jing - 2024

We identify a puzzling management practice gap in China. In the South, a one standard deviation increase in firms' management competency is associated with a 7.5 percent improvement in sales productivity and a 29.2 increase in profitability. But such associations are muted for firms located in...

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Do mergers among multimarket firms create value?

Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2016

information on mergers and firm-level multimarket production and innovation within the semiconductor industry. Using the pairwise …

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Growing productivity without growing wages : the micro-level anatomy of the aggregate labor share decline

Kehrig, Matthias; Vincent, Nicolas - 2017 - First version: November 2015, this version: March 29, 2017

The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing...

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Productivity, price- and wage-markups : an empirical analysis of the Dutch manufacturing industry

Amoroso, Sara; Melenberg, Bertrand; Plasmans, Joseph E. J. - 2015

This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage bargaining power. Our study contributes to several strands of literatures. First, we examine a monopolistic framework which accounts for wage bargaining. In addition to the...

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A model of heterogeneous firm matches in cross-border mergers & acquisitions

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Gerritse, Michiel; … - 2018 - This version: May 2018

In contrast to empirical evidence, recent theories of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) assume perfect knowledge transfers - from high to low productivity firms - between acquirer and target. Using the Melitz (2003) model of heterogeneous firms, we develop a matching model of...

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