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period leading up to and following the global financial crisis. We find little evidence of spillovers from macroeconomic … and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country …-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers from financial variables. We consider cycles in macroeconomic aggregates …
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We implement a new approach for the identification of news shocks about future technology. In a VAR featuring a measure of aggregate technology and several forward-looking variables, we identify the news shock as the shock orthogonal to technology innovations that best explains future variation...
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magnitude and direction of FDI spillovers. We examine these spillover effects across the diverse ownership structure of China … FDI spillovers. During 1998-2007, the span of our Chinese firm-level data set, both tariffs and FDI tax holidays changed … dramatically. Our results highlight the efficacy of vertical FDI spillovers. We find that tariff reforms, particularly tariff …
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of social spillovers. Individuals are either 'high' or 'low' types. Own outcomes may vary with the fraction of high types … study sorting in the presence of social spillovers by incorporating unobserved individual- and group-level heterogeneity. We …
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appears to depend on the intensity of parent firm R&D (R&D per plant), not on the total amount; and (3) spillovers of research …&D. These results suggest that, despite the externalities created by spillovers of R&D, the `dilution' of R&D across multiple … target plants reduces its potency sufficiently that spillovers may not be a source of industry-wide or economy …
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This paper builds a theory of the distribution of TFP across countries. The theory is based on the hypothesis that TFP improvements in a given country follow a Nelson-Phelps specification: they derive from past investments in the country itself and, through a spillover term, from past...
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There has been an increased interest in the efficacy of industrial policy. We show that policy design for vertically-related industries hinges on the nature of market interactions as well as technological linkages. Using a model in which final-good producers realize productivity gains from...
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The literature on the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on host-countries has been almost exclusively focused on issues of productivity, growth and wages. We argue that this leaves quite a bit of important unexplored areas of inquiry,...
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Our paper investigates spillover effects across different business segments of publicly traded mutual fund management companies. We find that the prior stock price performance of the management company has a significant impact on the money flows and the management turnover of the affiliated...
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I develop a model in which a child's acquisition of a given form of human capital incentivizes adults in his household to either learn from him (if children act as teachers then adults' cost of learning the skill falls) or lean on him (if children's human capital substitutes for that of adults...
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