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Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency : Selection on Productivity or Profitability?

Foster, Lucia - 2005

There is considerable evidence that producer-level churning contributes substantially to aggregate (industry) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the fact that producer-level prices are typically unobserved;...

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Transition Dynamics in Vintage Capital Models : Explaining the Postwar Catch-Up of Germany and Japan

Gilchrist, Simon - 2004

-up mechanism through capital accumulation where technology is embodied in new capital goods. Using a putty-clay model of production …

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Plant Vintage, Technology, and Environmental Regulation

Gray, Wayne B. - 2001

Does the impact of environmental regulation differ by plant vintage and technology? We answer this question using … annual Census Bureau information on 116 pulp and paper mills' vintage, technology, productivity, and pollution abatement … include our technology, vintage, and renovation variables. Sample calculations of the impact of pollution abatement on …

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Science and the Market for Technology

Arora, Ashish; Belenzon, Sharon; Suh, Jungkyu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Well functioning Markets for Technology (MFT) allow inventors to sell their inventions to others that may derive more …

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Macroeconomics of Persistent Slumps

Hall, Robert E. - 2016

In modern economies, sharp increases in unemployment from major adverse shocks result in long periods of abnormal unemployment and low output. This chapter investigates the processes that account for these persistent slumps. The data are from the economy of the United States, and the discussion...

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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Kerr, William R. - 2013

This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has … between productivity and exports, and exploiting heterogeneous technology diffusion from immigrant communities in the United …

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Long-Term Barriers to Economic Development

Spolaore, Enrico - 2013

What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world's technological frontier? In this paper, we seek to shed light on this question by quantifying the geographic and human barriers to the transmission of technologies. We argue that...

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The Micro and Macro Productivity of Nations

Ayerst, Stephen; Nguyen, Duc; Restuccia, Diego - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

-enhancing investments (technology). Empirically, less developed countries feature higher distortions and larger dispersion in firm …-thirds of cross-country labor productivity differences. Both selection and technology channels are important. Variation in …

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Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...

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