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Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance

Cai, Jing - 2017

We organized business associations for the owner-managers of randomly selected young Chinese firms to study the effect of business networks on firm performance. We randomized 2,800 firms into small groups whose managers held monthly meetings for one year, and into a “no- meetings” control...

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Defining Clusters of Related Industries

Delgado, Mercedes - 2015

, including job creation, patenting, and new business formation. There is an increasing need for cluster-based data to support … strategies. This paper develops a novel clustering algorithm that systematically generates and assesses sets of cluster … NAICS), and propose a new set of benchmark cluster definitions that incorporates measures of inter-industry linkages based …

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Brand Management and Strategies Against Counterfeits

Qian, Yi - 2014

In this paper I provide a theory for brand-protection strategies to reduce counterfeiting under weak intellectual property rights. My theoretical framework has general implications for endogenous sunk cost investments as a means of deterring counterfeiters. My model incorporates two layers of...

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The Role of Firm Factors in Demand, Cost, and Export Market Selection for Chinese Footwear Producers

Roberts, Mark J. - 2014

In this paper we use micro data on both trade and production for a sample of large Chinese manufacturing firms in the footwear industry from 2002-2006 to estimate an empirical model of export demand, pricing, and market participation by destination market. We use the model to construct indexes...

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Counterfeiters : Foes or Friends? How Do Counterfeits Affect Different Product Quality Tiers?

Qian, Yi - 2011

A key concern about counterfeits and weak intellectual property protection is that they may hamper innovation by displacing legitimate sales. This paper combines a natural policy experiment with randomized lab experiments to estimate the heterogeneous impacts of counterfeiting on the sales and...

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Buy Local? the Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion

Chen, Henry C. - 2014

We document geographic concentration by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three cities - San Francisco, Boston, and New York. We find that firms open new satellite offices based on the success rate of venture capital-backed investments in an area. Geography is...

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Changing Economic Geography and Vertical Linkages in Japan

Tomiura, Eiichi - 2021

In Japan, the manufacturing has become geographically dispersed in the 1990s, when the import share has risen after the historic exchange rate appreciation. As is consistent with the interpretation that import penetration undermines regional input-output linkages, our regressions detect the...

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Do Some Enterprise Zones Create Jobs?

Kolko, Jed - 2014

We study how the employment effects of enterprise zones vary with their location, implementation, and administration, based on evidence from California. We use new establishment-level data and geographic mapping methods, coupled with a survey of enterprise zone administrators. Overall, the...

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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan - 2014

Thomas Piketty's (2014) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a guide...

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How Much of Chinese Exports is Really Made in China? Assessing Domestic Value-Added When Processing Trade is Pervasive

Koopman, Robert - 2010

The rise of China in world trade has brought both benefits and anxiety to other economies. For many policy questions …. By our estimation, the share of domestic content in exports by the PRC was about 50% before China's WTO membership, and …

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