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In this paper we calculate and analyze the automobile industries cost and productivity experience during the 1970 's in … factor productivity (TFP) gross. This is achieved through a novel application of the Viner-Wng envelope theorem, which allows … correct for this source of productivity change would have led to a 31% under estimate of long-run TFP growth in Canada arid a …
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innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and … changing technological regulations--let alone increase productivity. Great potential exists for innovation in crop and …
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We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel - the minimill - on the aggregate productivity of … industry's productivity is linked to this new technology, and operates through two distinct mechanisms. First, minimills … third of the increase in the industry's productivity. Second, increased competition, due to the expansion of minimills …
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Opioid addiction and mortality skyrocketed over the past decade. A casual look at the geographic incidence of opioid mortality shows sharply higher mortality rates in the Appalachian region, especially in coal-mining areas. This has led observers to make a link that was characterized by one...
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future. This paper summarizes the key themes emerging from a conference on de-industrialization. De-industrialization is a …
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allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study … economic growth in the 1980s. Our empirical results indicate that productivity was significantly enhanced by the recent …
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We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain … number of cities was able to adapt to the negative shock caused by deindustrialization. The U.S. has the lowest share … then seek to understand why some former manufacturing hubs recovered while others didn't. We find that deindustrialization …
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This paper examines the impact of government-sponsored venture capitalists (GVCs) on the success of enterprises. Using international enterprise-level data, we identify a surprising non-monotonicity in the effect of GVC on the likelihood of exit via initial public offerings (IPOs) or third party...
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This paper investigates the relative performance of enterprises backed by government-sponsored venture capitalists and private venture capitalists. While previous studies focus mainly on investor returns, this paper focuses on a broader set of public policy objectives, including value-creation,...
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productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated across sectors. In this paper, we draw on new micro evidence to ask …
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