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How Fast are Semiconductor Prices Falling?
Byrne, David M. - 2015
The Producer Price Index (PPI) for the United States suggests that semiconductor prices have barely been falling in … implications for gauging the rate of innovation in the semiconductor sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024503
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High Tech R&D Subsidies : Estimating the Effects of Sematech
Irwin, Douglas A.; Klenow, Peter J. - 2021
Sparked by concerns about their shrinking market share, 14 leading U.S. semiconductor producers, with the financial … -- in 1987. Using Compustat data on all U.S. semiconductor firms, we estimate the effects of Sematech on members' R …
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Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021
A coalition of well-organized semiconductor producers along with compliant government agencies (USTR and the Commerce … in all world markets and to help secure 20 percent of the Japanese semiconductor market for foreign firms within five … protectionism.' This paper examines how the U.S. semiconductor industry became the beneficiary of this unique and unprecedented …
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Transnational Activity and Market Entry in the Semiconductor Industry
Lake, Arthur W. - 2021
This paper has examined the factors that affect the pattern of introduction of semiconductor innovations into the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229148
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Fiscal Policy in Debt Constrained Economies
Aguiar, Mark - 2011
We study optimal fiscal policy in a small open economy (SOE) with sovereign and private default risk. The SOE's government uses linear taxation to fund exogenous expenditures and uses public debt to inter-temporally allocate tax distortions. We characterize a class of environments in which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120194
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Capital and Labor Reallocation Inside Firms
Giroud, Xavier - 2012
We document how a plant-specific shock to investment opportunities at one plant of a firm ("treated plant") spills over to other plants of the same firm--but only if the firm is financially constrained. While the shock triggers an increase in investment and employment at the treated plant, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096857
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap
Gollin, Douglas - 2013
According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the non-agricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073187
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Secular Labor Reallocation and Business Cycles
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2016
We study the effect of mean-preserving labor reallocation on business cycle outcomes. We develop an empirical methodology using a local area's exposure to industry reallocation based on the area's initial industry composition and employment trends in the rest of the country over a full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001764
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Exploitation of Labor? Classical Monopsony Power and Labor's Share
Brooks, Wyatt - 2019
How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We examine this in the context of China and India – two large, rapidly-growing developing economies. Using theory, we develop a novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by...
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Factor Utilization in Indian Manufacturing : A Look at the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys Data
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2010
We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian manufacturing. We focus on disparities among states in manufacturing employment patterns, and provide reduced form evidence of their relationship to both (i) institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758574