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A retrospective look at rescuing and restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
Goolsbee, Austan; Krueger, Alan B. - 2015
This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
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Detecting mortgage delinquencies
Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
Economic hardship is strongly reflected by the housing market. It is the concern of much research, but its analysis is often obstructed by insufficient lagged data. This paper evaluates search intensity for "hardship letter" from Google Insights to detect ensuing mortgage delinquencies. Such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312194
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Give me your wired and your highly skilled : measuring the impact of immigration policy on employers and shareholders
Lin, Carl - 2011
The paper links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration policy. Most research treating the impact of immigration has focused on the consequences for employees as measured by wages, earnings, and employment. Less is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308050
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Say pays! : shareholder voice and firm performance
Cuñat, Vicente; Giné, Mireia; Guadalupe, Maria - 2014
: profitability and labor productivity increase, while overheads and investment fall. In contrast, we find limited effects on pay …
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Reallocation, firm turnover, and efficiency : selection on productivity or profitability?
Foster, Lucia (contributor);  … - 2005
There is considerable evidence that producer-level churning contributes substantially to aggregate (industry) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the fact that producer-level prices are typically unobserved;...
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Elasticity of supply to the firm and the business cycle
Depew, Briggs; Sorensen, Todd - 2011
A body of recent empirical work has found strong evidence that the labor elasticity of supply to the firm is finite, implying that firms may have wage setting power. However, these studies capture only snapshots of the parameter. We study this parameter over a period that provides substantial...
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Sluggish institutions in a dynamic world : can unions and industrial competition coexist?
Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2007
During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...
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Services outsourcing and innovation : an empirical investigation
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2009
activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as … outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … instrumental variables analysis. -- Services outsourcing ; offshoring ; innovation ; R&D …
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The home market shadow
Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2005
The home market effect (HME) is a distinguishing feature of the newʺ theory of international trade, but it is uncertain whether this effect survives if one moves beyond the simplifying setup with only two countries. We present a three-country version of the seminal model by Krugman (1980) and...
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"Make-or-buy" of peripheral services in manufacturing : evidence from Spanish plant-level data
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2013
In this paper we empirically explore the "make-or-buy" decisions of peripheral services in manufacturing plants using detailed information on a data set from a new plant-level survey from 926 plants distributed in all manufacturing industries in Spain. In particular, survey respondents are asked...
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