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supply chains reduced donations. The impacts of corruption and logistics performance likely persisted from pre-COVID times …
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importance, formal research on the contribution of supply chain logistics, including the relative impacts across different … logistics dimensions, is less. The importance of supply chains has been recently been brought to the forefront in the wake of … examine the relative effects of the different aspects of supply chain logistics on economic growth. Placing the empirical …
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Many policymakers view power outages as a major constraint on firm productivity in developing countries. Yet empirical studies find modest short-run effects of outages on firm performance. This paper builds a dynamic macroeconomic model to study the long-run general-equilibrium effects of power...
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Exploiting minimum-wage variation within multi-state commuting zones, we document a negative relationship between minimum wages and firm variety in the U.S. restaurant and retail-trade industries. To explain this finding, we construct a heterogeneous-firm model with a monopsonistic labor market...
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We analyze monetary policy in a New Keynesian model with heterogeneous firms and financial frictions. Firms differ in their productivity and net worth and face collateral constraints that cause capital misallocation. TFP endogenously depends on the time-varying distribution of firms. Although a...
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Chinese firms faced an all-around trade liberalization process during the early 2000s: lower barriers from other countries on Chinese goods, and lower Chinese barriers on other countries' goods and inputs. Using novel firm-level tariff data for trading Chinese manufacturing firms, this paper...
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Sticky price models featuring heterogeneous firms and systematic firm-level productivity trends deliver radically different predictions for the optimal inflation rate than their popular homogenous-firm counterparts: (1) the optimal steady-state inflation rate generically differs from zero and...
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