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The Impact of Plant-level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth
Petrin, Amil - 2011
We build up from the plant level an "aggregate(d)" Solow residual by estimating every U.S. manufacturing plant's contribution to the change in aggregate final demand between 1976 and 1996. Our framework uses the Petrin and Levinsohn (2010) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which...
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Multi Product Firms, Import Competition, and the Evolution of Firm-product Technical Efficiencies
Dhyne, Emmanuel - 2017
We study how increased import competition affects the evolution of firm-product technical efficiencies in the small open economy of Belgium. We observe quarterly firm-product data at the 8-digit level on quantities sold and firm-level labor, capital, and intermediate inputs from 1997 to 2007, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455045
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The Deaths of Manufacturing Plants
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2002
This paper examines the causes of manufacturing plant deaths within and across industries in the U.S. from 1977-1997. The effects of international competition from low wage countries, exporting, ownership structure, product diversity, productivity, geography, and plant characteristics are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469687
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Das (Wasted) Kapital : Firm Ownership and Investment Efficiency in China
Dollar, David - 2007
Based on a survey that we designed and that covers a stratified random sample of 12,400 firms in 120 cities in China … regions and sectors. By our calculation, if China succeeds in allocating its capital more efficiently, it could reduce its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465551
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Monetary and Fiscal Stimuli, Ownership Structure, and China's Housing Market
Deng, Yongheng - 2011
, China's stimulus boosted real GDP growth from an annualized 6.2% in the first quarter of 2009 trough to 11.9% in the first … speed and efficacy of China's stimulus derives from state control over its banking system and corporate sector. Beijing …, fueling a real estate bubble; and that China's seemingly highly effective macroeconomic stimulus package may well have induced …
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Growing Like China : Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position
Chor, Davin - 2020
matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …
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Dynamic Labor Demand in China : Public and Private Objectives
Cooper, Russell - 2010
This paper studies dynamic labor demand by private and public manufacturing plants in China. It contributes along two …
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The Behavioralist Visits the Factory : Increasing Productivity Using Simple Framing Manipulations
Hossain, Tanjim - 2009
Recent discoveries in behavioral economics have led to important new insights concerning what can happen in markets. Such gains in knowledge have come primarily via laboratory experiments--a missing piece of the puzzle in many cases is parallel evidence drawn from naturally-occurring field...
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Creative Accounting or Creative Destruction? Firm-level Productivity Growth in Chinese Manufacturing
Brandt, Loren - 2009
We present the first comprehensive set of firm-level total factor productivity estimates for China's manufacturing …
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Contractual Versus Generic Outsourcing : The Role of Proximity
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2005
We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions. Proximity expands the variety of products sourced through...
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