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Growing Like China : Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2022
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...
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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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Making the Numbers? "Short Termism" & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
Repenning, Nelson - 2010
industry to the low penetration of techniques such as TQM and continuous improvement. Yet a vigorous tradition in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138087
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Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance
Guzman, Jorge - 2015
A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial quality across firms. This paper develops a new approach for estimating entrepreneurial quality by linking the probability of a growth outcome (e.g., achieving an IPO or a...
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Technology and Production Fragmentation : Domestic Versus Foreign Sourcing
Fort, Teresa - 2016
This paper provides direct empirical evidence on the relationship between technology and firms' global sourcing strategies. Using new data on U.S. firms' decisions to contract for manufacturing services from domestic or foreign suppliers, I show that a firm's adoption of communication technology...
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Production Chains
Levine, David K. - 2010
More advanced technologies demand higher degrees of specialization - and longer chains of production connecting raw inputs to final outputs. Longer production chains are subject to a "weakest link" effect: they are more fragile and more prone to failure. Optimal chain length is determined by the...
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Supply Chain Resilience : Evidence from Indian Firms
Khanna, Gaurav; Morales, Nicolas; Pandalai-Nayar, Nitya - 2022
-to-firm transactions from an Indian state, we identify firms with larger supplier risk following the Covid-19 lockdowns. Using an event …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241293
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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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