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Multinationals' productivity advantage : scale or technology?

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 45 (2007) 2, pp. 350-362

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The impact of high-tech capital on productivity : evidence from Australia

Connolly, Ellis; Fox, Kevin J. - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 44 (2006) 1, pp. 50-68

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Technology and Local State Capacity : Evidence from Ghana

Dzansi, James; Jensen, Anders; Lagakos, David; Telli, Henry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first … conduct a new census of all local governments in Ghana to document a strong association between technology use and property … tax billing, collection and enforcement. We then randomize the use of a new revenue collection technology within one large …

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Programming FPGAs for Economics : An Introduction to Electrical Engineering Economics

Cheela, Bhagath; DeHon, André; Fernández-Villaverde, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We show how to use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and their associated high-level synthesis (HLS) compilers to solve heterogeneous agent models with incomplete markets and aggregate uncertainty (Krusell and Smith, 1998). We document that the acceleration delivered by one single FPGA is...

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Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency : Selection on Productivity or Profitability?

Foster, Lucia - 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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Transition Dynamics in Vintage Capital Models : Explaining the Postwar Catch-Up of Germany and Japan

Gilchrist, Simon - 2004

-up mechanism through capital accumulation where technology is embodied in new capital goods. Using a putty-clay model of production …

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Plant Vintage, Technology, and Environmental Regulation

Gray, Wayne B. - 2001

Does the impact of environmental regulation differ by plant vintage and technology? We answer this question using … annual Census Bureau information on 116 pulp and paper mills' vintage, technology, productivity, and pollution abatement … include our technology, vintage, and renovation variables. Sample calculations of the impact of pollution abatement on …

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Macroeconomics of Persistent Slumps

Hall, Robert E. - 2016

In modern economies, sharp increases in unemployment from major adverse shocks result in long periods of abnormal unemployment and low output. This chapter investigates the processes that account for these persistent slumps. The data are from the economy of the United States, and the discussion...

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The Micro and Macro Productivity of Nations

Ayerst, Stephen; Nguyen, Duc; Restuccia, Diego - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

-enhancing investments (technology). Empirically, less developed countries feature higher distortions and larger dispersion in firm …-thirds of cross-country labor productivity differences. Both selection and technology channels are important. Variation in …

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Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...

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