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valuation of firms in the transition as technology changes, and whether or not share prices are always increasing when … technology improves. We find that there can be a U-shaped transition dynamic, so that an initial boom in share price is followed … by a temporary fall in share price even though the underlying technology is improving. …
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Diversified firms often trade at a discount with respect to their focused counterparts. The literature has tried to explain the apparent misallocation of resources with lobbying activities or power struggles. We show that diversification can destroy value even when resources are efficiently...
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the complex role played by technology in affecting the relationship between … technology is analysed by taking into account both the technological intensity of offshoring industries and that of their GVC …
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Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production steps....
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In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...
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We study how technology adoption and changes in global value chain (GVC) integration jointly affect labor shares and …
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In the nineties, average firm size decreased, organisations decentralized, and workers preferences shifted from large to small firms. Our model identifies the economic forces behind this trend. Small firms with little capital at risk are subject to risk-shifting. They realize more of their...
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Many of the exports of developing countries are channeled through global value chains (GVCs), which also act as conduits for new technologies. However, new capabilities and productive employment remain limited so far to a tiny sliver of globally integrated firms. GVCs and new technologies...
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reduced emission abatement in the US, but also the spillover effects on technology and countries relative bargaining power … induced by the US decision. Therefore, it is crucial to analyse whether an incentive strategy exists that could induce the US … strategy, and on the other hand the incentives for the US to join a coalition which cooperates both on climate change control …
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This paper analyses an open economy Ramsey model with an endogenous labour supply without capital. The technology … technology shocks, both anticipated and unanticipated. …
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