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What Inventory Behavior Tells Us About Business Cycles
Bils, Mark; Kahn, James A. - 2021
Manufacturers' finished goods inventories move less than shipments over the business cycle. We argue that this requires marginal cost to be more procyclical than is conventionally measured. We construct, for six manufacturing industries, alternative measures of marginal cost that attribute...
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Components of Manufacturing Inventories
Auerbach, Alan J.; Green, Jerry - 2021
This paper presents a structural model of production and inventory accumulation based on the hypothesis of cost minimization. It differs from previous attempts in several respects. First, it integrates the analysis of input inventories with output inventories, treating the two stocks separately....
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2011
, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size : Evidence from India
Alfaro, Laura - 2014
This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics …
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Highway to Success : The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014
using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference …
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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014
the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. While the secular trend for India's manufacturing …
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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014
We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …
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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...
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How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Industry? Evidence from India
Allcott, Hunt - 2014
hydroelectric power availability. We estimate that India's average reported level of shortages reduces the average plant's revenues …
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The Link between Manufacturing Growth and Accelerated Services Growth in India
Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2014
-level data from India, we find a positive spillover from manufacturing growth to gross value added, wages, employment, and worker …
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