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In a dynamic environment where underlying competition is "for the market," this paper examines what happens when … entrants and incumbents can instead negotiate for the market. For instance, this might arise when an entrant innovator can …
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introduce a model of the market for advertising on news media outlets whereby news outlets are modeled as competing two … equilibrium outcomes in the advertising market. One consequence is that multi-homing on the part of advertisers is heterogeneous …
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This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...
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We consider a tractable model of heterogeneous production units that features endogenous entry and productivity investment to assess the quantitative impact of policy distortions on aggregate output and establishment size. Relative to the standard factor misallocation framework, policy...
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strategy to world shipbuilding, a classic target of industrial policy. I find strong evidence consistent with China having … subsidies led to substantial reallocation of ship production across the world, with Japan, in particular, losing significant … market share. They also misaligned costs and production, while leading to minor surplus gains for shippers …
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Casual empiricism suggests that additive trade costs, such as quotas, per-unit tariffs, and, in part, transportation costs, are prevalent. In spite of this, we have no broad and systematic evidence of the magnitude of these costs. We develop a new empirical framework for estimating additive...
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Two recent meta-analyses use variants of the Baily, Hulten, and Campbell (1992) (BHC) decompositions to ask whether recent robust growth in Aggregate Labor Productivity (ALP) across twenty-five countries is due to lower barriers to input reallocation. They find weak gains from measured...
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portfolios concentrated in sectors exposed to competition from China face an increase in non-performing loans after China's entry … into the World Trade Organization. As a result, they reduce the supply of credit to firms, irrespective of the firm … financial channel amplifies the shock to firms already hit by import competition from China and passes it on to firms in sectors …
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The expansion of U.S. universities after World War II gained from the arrival of immigrant scientists and graduate … convergence in world science and engineering and a falling U.S. share. But the slowdown of U.S. publication rates in the late 1990 …
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Competition between opposing lobbies is an important factor in the endogenous determination of trade policy. This paper … investigates empirically the consequences of lobbying competition between upstream and downstream producers for trade policy. The … with lobbying competition. Importantly, accounting for lobbying competition also alters substantially estimates of the …
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