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This study documents a strong inverse relationship between accident rates and production in a sample of eleven firms in the same narrowly defined industry classification. Given the detailed set of input controls and controls for plant-specific and time-specific factors used in the analysis, the...
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's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements …
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We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the productivity distribution and … balance of adoption and innovation determines the shape of the distribution; innovation stretches the distribution, while … adoption compresses it. Whether and how innovation and diffusion contribute to aggregate growth depends on the support of the …
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Improved health, equity, macro-economic efficiency, efficient provision of care, and client satisfaction are the common …
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Many empirical studies use Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity (FRD) designs to identify treatment effects when the receipt of treatment is potentially correlated to outcomes. Existing FRD methods identify the local average treatment effect (LATE) on the subpopulation of compliers with values of the...
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We analyze government interventions to recapitalize a banking sector that restricts lending to firms because of debt overhang. We find that the efficient recapitalization program injects capital against preferred stock plus warrants and conditions implementation on sufficient bank participation....
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Disparity between control and ownership rights gives rise to the risk of tunneling by the controlling shareholder, and is prevalent in many emerging market economies and present in some developed countries. At the same time, international investors come from different countries whose home...
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This paper analyzes the timing, pace and efficiency of the on- going job reallocation that results from product and … process innovation. There are strong reasons why an efficient economy ought to concentrate both job creation and destruction … policies can restore economic efficiency …
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of creative destruction, we draw a distinction between technological innovation advanced by the firm, or its competitors …. Using administrative data from the United States, we find that own firm innovation is associated with a modest increase in … worker earnings growth, while innovation by competing firms is related to lower future worker earnings. Importantly, these …
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revolutions, the nature of this uncertainty changes from idiosyncratic to systematic. The resulting "bubbles" in stock prices are … observable ex post but unpredictable ex ante, and they are most pronounced for technologies characterized by high uncertainty and …
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