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The Determinants of National Competitiveness

Delgado, Mercedes; Ketels, Christian; Porter, Michael E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We define foundational competitiveness as the expected level of output per working-age individual that is supported by the overall quality of a country as a place to do business. The focus on output per potential worker, a broader measure of national productivity than output per current worker,...

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What Do We Learn From Schumpeterian Growth Theory?

Howitt, Peter; Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Schumpeterian growth theory has "operationalized" Schumpeter''s notion of creative destruction by developing models based on this concept. These models shed light on several aspects of the growth process which could not be properly addressed by alternative theories. In this survey, we focus on...

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How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Productivity? Evidence from India

Allcott, Hunt; Collard-Wexler, Allan; O'Connell, Stephen D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We estimate the effects of electricity shortages on Indian manufacturers, instrumenting with supply shifts from hydroelectric power availability and power plant construction. We estimate that India’s average reported level of shortages reduces the average plant’s revenues and producer...

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Forecasting Profitability

Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Osei, Robert Darko; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The investment decisions of small‐scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana...

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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development

Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Knight, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...

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Firm-level Evidence on Productivity Differentials, Turnover, and Exports in Taiwanese Manufacturing

Roberts, Mark J.; Aw, Bee Yan; Chen, Xiaomin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

show that low sunk entry and exit costs act to speed firm turnover by facilitating entry and increasing the pressure on … inefficient firms to exit. As a result, low cost entry and exit may help improve aggregate productivity by allowing for the rapid … entering, exiting, and continuing firms, and quantify the contribution of firm turnover to industry productivity improvements …

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Productivity and the Welfare of Nations

Basu, Susanto; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Servén, Luis; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We show that the welfare of a country's infinitely-lived representative consumer is summarized, to a first order, by total factor productivity (TFP) and by the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare changes within a country, as well as welfare differences across...

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Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics: Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects

Kueng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung; Hong, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

What determines firm growth over the life-cycle? Exploiting unique firm panel data on internal organization, balance sheets and innovation, representative of the entire Canadian economy, we study recent theories that examine life-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include...

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Productivity, Efficiency, Scale Economies and Technical Change: A New Decomposition Analysis

Nemoto, Jiro; Goto, Mika - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted to explore the sources of the productivity change. In...

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