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In collaboration with a state environmental regulator in India, we conducted a field experiment to raise the frequency … these results and recover the full costs of environmental regulation, we model the regulatory process as a dynamic discrete … costs of environmental regulation are largely reserved for extremely polluting plants. Applying the cost estimates to the …
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and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both … the insurance market (which is the current regulatory practice in India and other developing countries), makes wage …
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results suggest reformed incentives for third-party auditors can improve their reporting and make regulation more effective …
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This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...
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This paper examines two potential channels of knowledge acquisition that underlie firm productivity growth in the Taiwanese electronics industry: participation in the export market and investments in R&D and/or worker training. We focus on the argument that a firm's own investments in R&D are...
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This paper estimates the relative price sensitivity of individuals' choice of whether to buy computers online versus in retail stores using a new data source on the computer purchase behavior of more than 20,000 people. To estimate the degree of competition between the two channels, the paper...
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This paper examines possible consequences of subsidies to R&D and to volume production proposed under the Clinton administration's flat panel display initiative. We do this in the context of a model in which firms behave competitively in the short run, while realizing that their choices of...
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propose a structural estimation framework to evaluate the hypothesis, and estimate the parameters based on the customs data of …
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dropping. The lack of product dropping is consistent with the role of industrial regulation in India, which, like in many other … detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent …
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Most conventional accounts of India's recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the …
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