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Using Investment Data to Assess the Importance of Price Mismeasurement

Comin, Diego - 2004

the firm's investment decision to identify the embodied and disembodied components of productivity growth. With a Cobb …

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Taxation and the Sources of Growth : Estimates from United States Multinational Corporations

Cummins, Jason G. - 1998

Capital income tax policy affects investment by the parent and affiliates of multinational corporations (MNCs). In a … model in which technical advances are embodied in new capital, investment will translate directly into productivity gains … 1992, due to productivity growth in MNCs with Canadian affiliates; (3) the investment elasticity of productivity growth is …

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TFPG Controversies, Institutions, and Economic Performance in East Asia

Rodrik, Dani - 1997

when institutional quality is instrumented. Finally, the experience of Hong Kong, which has had a flat investment ratio … since the 1960s, is consistent with the idea that making the transition from a low-investment economy to a high-investment …

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Alternative Compensation Arrangements and Productive Efficiency in Partnerships : Evidence from Medical Group Practice

Gaynor, Martin - 1987

with theoretical work on internal theory of the firm, which predicts that productivity compensation schemes will work well … production, as theory has hypothesized. The number of members in a group decreases both the quantity produced and the efficiency …

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Does EdTech Substitute for Traditional Learning? Experimental Estimates of the Educational Production Function

Bettinger, Eric - 2020

Experimental studies rarely consider the shape and nature of the education production function, which is useful for deriving optimal levels of input substitution in increasingly resource constrained environments. Because of the rapid expansion of EdTech as a substitute for traditional learning...

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Some Unpleasant Markup Arithmetic : Production Function Elasticities and their Estimation from Production Data

Bond, Steve - 2020

The ratio estimator of a firm's markup is the ratio of the output elasticity of a variable input to that input's cost share in revenue. This note raises issues that concern identification and estimation of markups using the ratio estimator. Concerning identification: (i) if the revenue...

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Markups and firm-level export status

De Loecker, Jan - 2009

Estimating markups has a long tradition in industrial organization and international trade. Economists and policy makers are interested in measuring the effect of various competition and trade policies on market power, typically measured by markups. The empirical methods that were developed in...

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Panel Data Estimates Of The Production Function And Product And Labor Market Imperfections

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2008

Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...

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The Shape of Production Function and the Direction of Technical Change

Jones, Charles I. - 2004

This paper views the standard production function in macroeconomics as a reduced form and derives its properties from microfoundations. The shape of this production function is governed by the distribution of ideas. If that distribution is Pareto, then two results obtain: the global production...

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Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogeneous Labor : Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2004

In this paper, we first describe the 1990 DEED, the most recently constructed matched employer-employee data set for the United States that contains detailed demographic information on workers (most notably, information on education). We then use the data from manufacturing establishments in the...

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