's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

, Chinese firm-level data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBSC), and Chinese customs data strongly supports the …

results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …

analysis reveals a rising low-income country trade share around and after China's accession to the World Trade Organization … evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …

improving production efficiency and product quality in both countries, but it matters more in China than in the US, especially …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … industry. Using firm level data from China, we document that wholesalers play no such role for direct importers. However, other …

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 …

This paper challenges established claims of comparable degrees of market integration in Europe and China on the eve of … process of market disintegration in 221 prefectures of Qing China. Comparing our results with those for grain price panels …