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's comparative advantage remained the same as in the 1960s, and technology in all sectors grew at the same country-specific average …
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sensitive to changes in import prices. Although import price fluctuations had a much greater impact on U.S. production than …This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to … role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early development. Domestic pig iron production is found to be highly …
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productivity across sectors exhibits weak correlation. While previous work examined production complementarity, our analysis … production and a low marginal cost of replication, sectors can share the cost to forecast their sector-specific productivity …
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The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organize production. Using microdata on … Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with … of input use. The equilibrium organization of production and the network structure of input-output linkages arise …
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production. At the same time United States experienced a quot;transportation revolutionquot;, a key component of which was the … extent of the market …
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existing production network plays a crucial role in the diffusion of inputs and the evolution of technology …The adoption and diffusion of inputs in the production network is at the heart of technological progress. What …
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and solar energy and revenue risk are computed using the actual market portfolio and the risk-adjusted expected hourly …
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market of the host country and to export to other markets outside the host country. In this paper, I examine the determinants … of multinational firms' location and production decisions and the welfare implications of multinational production. The … costs of foreign investment are large. Second, I calibrate the model to data on trade and multinational production for …
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costs of changing production as well as substantial costs of being away from target inventory, the latter being a function … characteristics of the demand process. In the automobile industry, inventory behavior is destabilizing: the variance of production is …
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This paper examines how devaluations affect the relative costs of labor and capital and therefore influence production …
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