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An Economic Analysis of Platform Sharing
Morita, Hodaka; Ghosh, Arghya - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We explore the managerial implications and economic consequences of platform sharing under models of horizontal and vertical product differentiation. By using a common platform across different products, firms can save on fixed costs for platform development. At the same time, platform sharing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084694
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Multi-Product Firms and Product Quality
Manova, Kalina; Zhang, Zhiwei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper proposes that quality differentiation is an important feature of the operations of multi-product firms. We develop a model in which manufacturers vary product quality across their product range by using inputs of different quality levels. Firms' core competency is in varieties of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951043
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Market Entry Costs, Producer Heterogeneity, and Export Dynamics
Roberts, Mark J.; Das, Sanghamitra; Tybout, James R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
As the exchange rate, foreign demand, production costs and export promotion policies evolve, manufacturing firms are continually faced with two issues: Whether to be an exporter, and if so, how much to export. We develop a dynamic structural model of export supply that characterizes these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084475
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Markups and firm-level export status
De Loecker, Jan K.; Warzynski, Frederic - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
productivity, ii) exporters charge on average higher markups and iii) firms' markups increase (decrease) upon export entry (exit …).We see these findings as a first step in opening up the productivity-export black box, and provide a potential explanation … for the big measured productivity premia for firms entering export markets. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087481
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A Structural Approach to Identifying the Sources of Local-Currency Price Stability
Goldberg, Pinelopi; Hellerstein, Rebecca - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
The inertia of the local-currency prices of traded goods in the face of exchange-rate changes is a well-documented phenomenon in International Economics. This paper develops a structural model to identify the sources of this local-currency price stability and applies it to micro data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828568
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The Smart Grid, Entry, and Imperfect Competition in Electricity Markets
Allcott, Hunt - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Most US consumers are charged a near-constant retail price for electricity, despite substantial hourly variation in the wholesale market price. The Smart Grid is a set of emerging technologies that, among other effects, will facilitate "real-time pricing" for electricity and increase price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271447
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Gravity, Productivity and the Pattern of Production and Trade
Anderson, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The effects of geography and productivity on the global pattern of production are captured here in a specific factors … gravity model. Simple enough for sharp results, the model is yet rich enough to contain the high dimensional productivity … productivity frictions inferred from gravity. Sellers' and buyers' incidence both reduce real income. Sellers' incidence shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718383
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Exporting and Firm Performance: Chinese Exporters and the Asian Financial Crisis
Park, Albert; Yang, Dean; Shi, Xinzheng; Jiang, Yuan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
unanticipated and large, they are a plausible instrument for identifying the impact of exporting on firm productivity and other … that export growth leads to increases firm productivity and other firm performance measures. Consistent with "earning …-by-exporting", the productivity impact of export growth is greater when firms export to more developed countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778908
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A Theory of the Firm based on Partner Displacement
Hellmann, Thomas; Thiele, Veikko - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We develop a new theory of the firm where asset owners sometimes want to change partners ex-post. The model identifies a fundamental trade-off between (i) a "displacement externality" under non-integration, where a partner leaves a relationship even though the benefit is worth less than the loss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950631
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Vertical Integration and Market Structure
Bresnahan, Timothy; Levin, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Contractual theories of vertical integration derive firm boundaries as an efficient response to market transaction costs. These theories predict a relationship between underlying features of transactions and observed integration decisions. There has been some progress in testing these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652759