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Products and Productivity
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - 2021
Firms' decisions about which goods to produce are often made at a more disaggregate level than the data observed by empirical researchers. When products differ according to production technique or the way in which they enter demand, this data aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard...
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2015
States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments in organizational innovation. Past profits tend to be positively associated with organizational innovation. Employers … being part of a multi-establishment firm) are more likely to invest in organizational innovation. Investments in human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750369
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Theories of Heterogeneous Firms and Trade
Redding, Stephen J. - 2010
This paper reviews the recent theoretical literature on heterogeneous firms and trade, which emphasizes firm selection into international markets and reallocations of resources across firms. We discuss the empirical challenges that motivated this research and its relationship to traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135411
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The Organization of Firms Across Countries
Bloom, Nicholas - 2012
We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity through facilitating greater firm decentralization. We collect original data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production and sales decisions from Corporate Head Quarters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116932
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The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization
Bloom, Nicholas - 2012
Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the "information" and "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that these have very different effects on the empowerment of employees, and by extension on wage inequality. If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117035
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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2011
This paper reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical findings from micro data on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of international trade and inspired the development of new theories emphasizing firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118121
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The Organization of R&D in American Corporations : The Determinants and Consequences of Decentralization
Arora, Ashish - 2011
We study the relationship between decentralization of R&D, innovation and firm performance using a novel dataset on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124858
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Incomplete Contracts and the Internal Organization of Firms
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
We survey the theoretical and empirical literature on decentralization within firms. We first discuss how the concept of incomplete contracts shapes our views about the organization of decision-making within firms. We then overview the empirical evidence on the determinants of decentralization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064452
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Does Trade Globalization Induce or Inhibit Corporate Transparency? Unbundling the Growth Potential and Product Market Competition Channels
Tong, Hui - 2014
How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents different facets and in theory has ambiguous effects on corporate transparency. On the one hand, by exposing firms to more product market competition, it could discourage discretionary disclosure. On the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067063
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Organization Structure and Credibility : Evidence from Commercial Bank Securities Activities Before the Glass-Steagall Act
Kroszner, Randall - 2008
This paper investigates how organizational structure can affect a firm's ability to compete. In particular, we examine the two ways in which U.S. commercial banks organized their investment banking operations before the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act forced the banks to leave the securities business:...
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