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Krishna, Kala - 1996

Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...

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On the Solvency of Nations : Cross-Country Evidence on the Dynamics of External Adjustment

Durdu, C. Bora - 2012

We test the hypothesis that net foreign asset positions are consistent with external solvency and examine the dynamics of external adjustment using data for 50 countries over the 1970-2006 period. Our analysis adapts Bohn's (2007) error-correction reaction function approach--which tests for a...

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Estimating Matching Games with Transfers

Fox, Jeremy T. - 2008

I explore the estimation of transferable utility matching games, encompassing many-to-many matching, marriage and matching with trading networks (trades). I introduce a matching maximum score estimator that does not suffer from a computational curse of dimensionality in the number of agents in a...

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Complementarity Among Vertical Integration Decisions : Evidence from Automobile Product Development

Novak, Sharon - 2007

This paper examines complementarity among vertical integration decisions in automobile product development. Though most research assumes that contracting choices are independent of each other, contracting complementarity arises when the returns to a single vertical integration decision are...

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Supplier Relations and Adoption of New Technology : Results of Survey Research in the U.S. Auto Industry

Helper, Susan - 1995

Using an original data source, this paper investigates the circumstances under which firms adopt computer numerical control (CNC), an important type of flexible automation which can significantly increase productivity, product variety and quality. The paper shows that arms'-length...

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Sustainability and its Measurement

Heal, Geoffrey - 2011

I present a non-technical high-level review the concept of sustainability and the various approaches to quantifying it …

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What Goes on Under the Hood? How Engineers Innovate in the Automotive Supply Chain

Helper, Susan - 2016

Some highlights from our original survey data include a wide range in terms of size and strategies of supply chain companies; a majority was small- to medium-sized, often family-owned. We observed barriers to patenting for manufacturing firms developing process rather than product innovations....

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Small Changes, Big Impact : Nudging Employees Toward Sustainable Behaviors

Cappellucci, Laura; Ha, Lan; Honig, Jeremy; Knittel, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We designed and conducted three randomized control trials in partnership with a large biopharmaceutical company operating over 160 plasma donation centers, with the aim of promoting sustainable behaviors in a workplace setting. Specifically, we focused on reducing operational errors that led to...

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An Analysis of Puerto Rico's Debt Relief Needs to Restore Debt Sustainability

Gluzmann, Pablo - 2018

was certified in March 2017 for fiscal years 2017-18 to 2026-27. Second, we perform a Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA … that the island's current debt position is unsustainable, and compute the necessary debt relief to restore sustainability …

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What is a Sustainable Public Debt?

D'Erasmo, Pablo - 2015

traditional approach to evaluate debt sustainability, and examine three alternative approaches that provide useful econometric and … model-simulation tools to analyze debt sustainability. The first approach is Bohn's non-structural empirical framework based … three approaches to analyze debt sustainability in the United States and Europe after the recent surge in public debt …

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