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IT Investment and Firm Performance in U.S. Retail Trade

Klimek, Shawn D; Jarmin, Ron S; Doms, Mark E - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2002

We examine the relationships between investments in information technology (IT) and two measures of retail firm …

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Gort, Michael; Jensen, J. Bradford; Lee, Seong-Hoon - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2002

The study seeks to explain the attrition rate of new manufacturing plants in the United States in terms of three vectors of variables. The first explains how survival of the fittest proceeds through learning by firms (plants) about their own relative efficiency. The second explains how...

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Energy Intensity, Electricity Consumption, and Advanced Manufacturing Technology Usage

Doms, Mark E - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1993

consumption patterns in manufacturing plants. Using data from the Survey of Manufacturing Technology and the 1987 Census of …

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Decomposing Learning By Doing in New Plants

Bahk, Byong-Hyong; Gort, Michael - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1992

The paper examines learning by doing in the context of a production function in which the other arguments are labor, human capital, physical capital, and vintage as a proxy for embodied technical change in physical capital. Learning is further decomposed into organization learning, capital...

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The Life Cycles of Industrial Plants

Lee, Seong-Hoon; Gort, Michael - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2001

The paper presents a dynamic programming model with multiple classes of capital goods to explain capital expenditures on existing plants over their lives. The empirical specification shows that the path of capital expenditures is explained by (a) complementarities between old and new capital...

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Managerial Efficiency, Organizational Capital and Productivity

Gort, Michael; Lee, Seong-Hoon - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2003

The paper focuses on the impact of managerial efficiency on output. Three sources of managerial efficiency are identified: (a) superior initial managerial endowments, (b) the accumulation of managerial knowledge and skills through learning and (c) the impact of an effective market for managerial...

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The Effect Of Technology Use On Productivity Growth

Mcguckin, Robert H; Streitwieser, Mary L; Doms, Mark E - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1996

rates. We use data from the 1993 and 1988 Survey of Manufacturing Technology (SMT) to examine the use of advanced (computer … Research Database (LRD) to examine the relationships between plant performance, plant characteristics, and the use of advanced … technology use with changes in plant productivity performance. The main findings of the study are as follows. First, diffusion is …

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Decomposing Technical Change

Bahk, Byong-Hyong; Gort, Michael; Wall, Richard A - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1991

A production function is specified with human capital as a separate argument and with embodied technical change proxied by a variable that measures the average vintage of the stock of capital. The coefficients of this production function are estimated with cross section data for roughly 2,150...

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The Demand for Human Capital: A Microeconomic Approach

Gort, Michael; Lee, Seong-Hoon - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2001

the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Research Database. The results show strong complementarity between physical and human … capital. Moreover, the complementarity is greater in high than in low technology industries. The results also show that … low technology industries. …

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Inter Fuel Substitution And Energy Technology Heterogeneity In U.S. Manufacturing

Doms, Mark E - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1993

This paper examines the causes of heterogeneity in energy technology across a large set of manufacturing plants. This …'s energy technology adoption decision. Additionally, plant characteristics, such as size and energy intensity, are shown to … greatly impact the energy technology adoption decision. A model of the energy technology adoption is developed and the …

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