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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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Performance Evaluation of Zero Net-Investment Strategies

Jorda, Oscar - 2011

This paper introduces new nonparametric statistical methods to evaluate zero-cost investment strategies. We focus on directional trading strategies, risk-adjusted returns, and the investor's decisions under uncertainty as the core of our analysis. By relying on classification tools with a long...

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Offshore Hedge Funds : Survival and Performance 1989-1995

Brown, Stephen J. - 2010

We examine the performance of the offshore hedge fund industry over the period 1989 through 1995 using a database that includes defunct as well as currently operating funds. The industry is characterized by high attrition rates of funds and little evidence of differential manager skill. We...

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Unconditional Convergence

Rodrik, Dani - 2011

Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The paper documents this finding for 4-digit manufacturing sectors for a large group of developed and developing countries over the period since 1990. The coefficient of unconditional...

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The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Manufacturing : Evidence from Microdata

Martin, Ralf - 2011

We estimate the impacts of the Climate Change Levy (CCL) on manufacturing plants using panel data from the UK production census. Our identification strategy builds on the comparison of outcomes between plants subject to the CCL and plants that were granted an 80% discount on the levy after...

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The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies

Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2014

We use a comprehensive dataset of French manufacturing firms to study their internal organization. We first divide the employees of each firm into `layers' using occupational categories. Layers are hierarchical in that the typical worker in a higher layer earns more, and the typical firm...

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Plant-Level Productivity and Imputation of Missing Data in U.S. Census Manufacturing Data

White, Kirk - 2014

Within-industry differences in measured plant-level productivity are large. A large literature has been devoted to explaining the causes and consequences of these differences. In the U.S. Census Bureau's manufacturing data, the Bureau imputes for missing values using methods known to result in...

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Intermediaries in International Trade : Direct Versus Indirect Modes of Export

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2012

This paper examines the factors that give rise to intermediaries in exporting and explores the implications for trade volumes. Export intermediaries such as wholesalers serve different markets and export different products than manufacturing exporters. In particular, high market-specific fixed...

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Trade Reforms and Market Selection : Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia

Eslava, Marcela - 2009

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark-ups and input costs. We find that each of these market fundamentals are important in explaining plant exit. We then use variation across sectors in tariff changes after the...

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What Drives Differences in Management?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of “structured” management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts...

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