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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition : The Effect of Trade Liberalization
Guadalupe, Maria - 2014
This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. We exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i)...
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Computerizing Industries and Routinizing Jobs : Explaining Trends in Aggregate Productivity
Aum, Sangmin - 2018
Aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. has slowed down since the 2000s. We quantify the importance of differential productivity growth across occupations and across industries, and the rise of computers since the 1980s, for the productivity slowdown. Complementarity across occupations and...
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Globotics and Development : When Manufacturing is Jobless and Services are Tradable
Baldwin, Richard; Forslid, Rikard - 2022
service-led development path may become the norm rather than the exception; think India, not China. Since success in the …
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Knowledge Management, Innovation, and Productivity : A Firm Level Exploration Based on French Manufacturing Cis3 Data
Kremp, Elisabeth; Mairesse, Jacques - 2021
In modern knowledge driven economies, firms are increasingly aware that individual and collective knowledge is a major factor of economic performance. The larger the firms and the stronger their connection with technology intensive industries, the more are they likely to set up knowledge...
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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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