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Trade liberalization along the firm size distribution : the case of the EU-South Korea FTA
Chowdhry, Sonali; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2021
In 2011, the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (EUKFTA) entered into force. With its focus on non-tariff barriers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489630
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Firm-specific characteristics and the timing of foreign direct investment projects
Raff, Horst (contributor); Ryan, Michael (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003462031
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Productivity, place, and plants : revisiting the measurement
Schoefer, Benjamin; Ziv, Oren - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418448
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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018
We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First,...
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Immigration and business dynamics : evidence from U.S. firms
Mahajan, Parag - 2022
establishment entry and exit drive immigrant-induced job creation and a rightward shift of the productivity distribution in U ….S. local industries. High-productivity establishments are more likely to enter and less likely to exit in high immigration … environments, whereas low-productivity establishments are more likely to exit. These dynamics result in productivity growth. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332159
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Security of property as a public good : institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis G.; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012
Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683449
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Evaluating real world income distributions behind the veil of ignorance : how risk averse do you have to be to prefer Europe over the US?
Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Zafar, Tasneem - 2011
The paper uses a veil of ignorance approach and income distribution data of developed countries to arrive at inequality corrected income rankings. While a risk neutral individual (based on year 2000 data) would have preferred to be born into the US rather than any European country in our sample...
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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016
Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524624
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Inequality and economic growth : European versus U.S. experiences
Foellmi, Reto; Zweimüller, Josef - 2003
This paper discusses long-term trends in the macroeconomic growth performance and in income distribution in Europe and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509368
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The economics of pending patents
Koenen, Johannes; Peitz, Martin - 2011
We provide a treatment of a number of questions pertaining to pending patents – a subject that has so-far mainly been discussed en-passant in the existing literature. We present the underlying institutional and legal framework that governs pending patents and some basic facts related to them....
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