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restructuring process and that this is associated with the tight financial-market conditions that follow. This productivity cost of …
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The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older...
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, to economically and statistically significant declines in domestic output and productivity. Tariff increases also result …. The effects on output and productivity tend to be magnified when tariffs rise during expansions, for advanced economies …
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of climate change on sectoral reallocation and aggregate productivity. First, I use firm-level data from a wide range of … countries to estimate the effect of temperature on productivity in manufacturing and services. Estimates suggest that extreme … heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to …
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The effects of geography and productivity on the global pattern of production are captured here in a specific factors … gravity model. Simple enough for sharp results, the model is yet rich enough to contain the high dimensional productivity … productivity frictions inferred from gravity. Sellers' and buyers' incidence both reduce real income. Sellers' incidence shocks …
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We examine how credit constraints affect the cyclical behavior of productivity-enhancing investment and thereby … a long-term productivity-enhancing one. Because it takes longer to complete, long-term investment has a relatively less …
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productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 14% of … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for imports-related spillovers, but it …
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of international patents, country-level R&D productivity increases proportionally with the stock of ideas already …). Second, we find that ideas productivity in a given country is constant or declining in the worldwide stock of ideas. Ideas … effects of international knowledge spillovers. Finally, ideas productivity is concave in the size of the R&D workforce and the …
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Monte Carlo based robustness test is proposed which compares the elasticity of domestic productivity with respect to foreign … larger and explain more of the variation in productivity across countries than if true' bilateral trade patterns are employed …
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that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects domestic productivity via imports is probably incorrect. We provide …
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