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The Causal Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions on Macroeconomic Outcomes : Evidence and Theory
Bai, Xiwen; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Li, Yiliang; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the causal effects and policy implications of global supply chain disruptions. We construct a new index of supply chain disruptions from the mandatory automatic identification system data of container ships, developing a novel spatial clustering algorithm that determines real-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486190
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Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa
McMillan, Margaret S. - 2013
This paper addresses the role of tropical disease in rural demography and land use rights, using data from Onchocerciasis (river blindness) control in Burkina Faso. We combine a new survey of village elders with historical census data for 1975-2006 and geocoded maps of treatment under the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459417
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War in Iraq versus Containment
Davis, Steven J. - 2006
According to our analysis, pre-invasion views about the likely course of the Iraq intervention imply present value costs for the United States in the range of $100 to $870 billion. Our estimated present value cost for the containment policy is nearly $300 billion and ranges upward to $700...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466576
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Effects of Product Availability : Experimental Evidence
Conlon, Christopher T. - 2010
Product availability impacts many industries such as transportation, events, and retail, yet little empirical evidence documents the importance of stocking decisions for firm profits, vertical relationships, or consumers. We conduct several experiments, exogenously removing top-selling products...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462151
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Determinants of Firm Boundaries : Empirical Analysis of the Japanese Auto Industry from 1984 to 2002
Nagaoka, Sadao - 2007
We have assessed the determinants of the choice of integration, relational contracting (keiretsu sourcing) and market sourcing by seven Japanese automobile manufacturers (OEMs) with respect to 54 components in light of contract economics. Our major findings are the following. First, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465591
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Time as a Trade Barrier
Hummels, David - 2012
A large and growing share of international trade is carried on airplanes. Air cargo is many times more expensive than maritime transport but arrives in destination markets much faster. We model firms' choice between exporting goods using fast but expensive air cargo and slow but cheap ocean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460901
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Deals versus rules : policy implementation uncertainty and why firms hate it
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2010
"Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that … often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions that can be … uncorrelated with ex-post firm-level responses, further evidence that deals rather than rules prevail in Africa. Strikingly, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394615
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Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa
McMillan, Margaret Stokes; Zeufack, Albert G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These employment gains have been … (iii) robust labor productivity growth in Africa's large firms. Limited employment growth in Africa's large manufacturing … manufacturing to raise living standards in Africa depends on indirect job creation by large firms through backward and forward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794598
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Time Use and Gender in Africa in Times of Structural Transformation
Dinkelman, Taryn; Ngai, Liwa Rachel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
about women's time use in Africa. First, in North Africa, women spend very few hours in market work and female labor force … participation overall is extremely low. Second, although extensive margin participation of women is high in sub-Saharan Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794599
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Intergenerational Mobility in Africa
Alesina, Alberto - 2019
We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence, using census data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479489