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Vertical Networks and US Auto Parts Exports : Is Japan Different?
Head, Keith - 2002
, while Japan is a large parts importer, the composition of its imports is shifted away from parts where vertical keiretsu are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469548
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Quantitative Tightening Around the Globe : What Have We Learned?
Du, Wenxin; Forbes, Kristin; Luzzetti, Matthew N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
central bank balance sheets. We analyze the experience in seven advanced economies (Australia, Canada, Euro area, New Zealand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528361
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Complementarity and Cost Reduction : Evidence from the Auto Supply Industry
Helper, Susan - 1997
United States and Canada between 1988 and 1992. The main result is that the determinants of cost reduction differ markedly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472784
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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2015
This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' international mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar" inventors, those with the most abundant and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457644
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What Can Stockouts Tell Us About Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data
Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2021 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in shortages in nearly all sectors early in the pandemic. Over time, the composition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629429
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Productivity Growth in the Automobile Industry, 1970-1980 : A Comparisonof Canada, Japan and the United States
Fuss, Melvyn A. - 1985
Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology, we are able to isolate the major source of … correct for this source of productivity change would have led to a 31% under estimate of long-run TFP growth in Canada arid a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477344
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Cost of Capital for the United States, Japan, and Canada : An Attempt at Measurement Based on Individual Company Records and Aggregate National Acccoun
Ando, Albert - 1997
countries such as the US, Canada, and Japan. Attempts are made to carry out the measurement based both on the accounting records … depreciation and before taxes is found to fluctuate around 10-11% without a persistent trend. For Canada, the indivi- dual company … Canada supple- mented by some unpublished data supplied by Statistics Canada suggest that the cost of capital in Canada is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472944
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Unraveling the Productivity Growth Slowdown in the U.S., Canada and Japan : The Effects of Subequilibrium, Scale Economies and Markup
Morrison, Catherine J. - 1989
Measures of productivity growth typically include in the Productivity "residual" the impacts of subequilibrium from fixity of factors, costs of adjustment, returns to scale and markups. This paper proposes a general two part framework for adjusting the residual measure to take these impacts into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476055
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Implementing Results-Oriented Trade Policies : The Case of the US-Japanese Auto Parts Dispute
Krishna, Kala - 1996
Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473162
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Will China Eat Our Lunch or Take Us Out to Dinner? Simulating the Transition Paths of the U.S., EU, Japan, and China
Fehr, Hans - 2005
fall, the West and Japan see it rise by one fifth by 2030 and by three fifths by 2100. These wage increases are over and …, and economic transition paths of China, Japan, the U.S., and the EU. Each of these countries/regions is entering a period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467008