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Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size, combined with finite plant counts. As a result, economies...
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concentration of establishments along the production chain of the Million-Rouble plants, which limits technological spillovers …
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In last few decades, Asian production networks have contributed significantly toward the rapid trade expansion and …, the ability of the rest of the world to absorb Asia's exports has decreased. Export production in some Asian countries has … standards. This can be done by leveraging production networks to graduate to higher value-added, knowledge-intensive activities …
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West German manufacturing subset of the IFO Business Climate Survey to infer quarterly production changes at the firm level … and combine them with production expectations over a quarterly horizon in the same survey to construct series of … and at most 34 percent of firms systematically over- or underpredict their one-quarter-ahead upcoming production. In a …
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Aggregated output in industrialized countries has become less volatile over the past decades. Whether this Great Moderationʺ can be found in firm level data as well remains disputed. We study the evolution of firm level output volatility using a balanced panel dataset on German firms that...
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With fixed costs of price and quantity adjustment, output effects of inflation depend on the elasticity of the firm's marginal real revenue. If the elasticity always exceeds minus unity, then output decreases with inflation, while if the elasticity is always less than minus unity, then output...
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production processes that are new to them. They introduce these technologies either with the help of suppliers and clients or by …
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This paper aims to help policy makers identify how standards can contribute to the effective and cost-efficient development and deployment of eco-innovations (innovations that result in a reduction of environmental impact). To that end we discuss what standards are, how the process of...
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