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firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect". Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and … evidence is in line with the results from the theoretical model. -- multi-product firms ; productivity ; optimal product scope …
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manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …
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-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent … study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in … exports is much higher among exporters from the lower end of the productivity distribution than among highly productive …
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Using a new consumer survey dataset, we study the role of macroeconomic preferences for expectations and economic decisions. While household expectations are inversely related to preferences, households with the same in ation expectations can differently assess whether the level of expected in...
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By providing numerical inflation projections. Many central banks currently face inflation well above their targets and … with that the challenge to prevent spillovers on inflation expectations. We study the effect of different communication … about the 2021 inflation surge on German consumers' inflation expectations using a randomized control trial. We show that …
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economy. While about half of all studies for the United States find a significant effect of unemployment and inflation on … choice of the sample period is of crucial importance. While in the very long run we find unemployment, inflation and the …. -- presidential popularity ; approval ; unemployment ; inflation …
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This paper investigates social preferences towards unemployment and inflation in the United States. Estimating a … unemployment and inflation. However, reducing unemployment is more important to society as voters would trade off 1 point of … unemployment against 2.5 points of inflation. One point of unemployment costs the president about 4 points, one point inflation …
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Economic theory suggests both positive and negative relationships between intra-firm wage inequality and productivity … relative minor influence of intra-firm wage inequality on firm productivity. If anything, they provide some support for a view … suggesting that some inequality may be beneficial, while too much leads to a detrimental effect on productivity. …
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While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than nonexporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the...
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Anschließend an die breite Literatur zur Untersuchung von Produktivitätsdifferentialen zwischen international aktiven und nicht international aktiven Unternehmen liefert der vorliegende Beitrag erstmals Ergebnisse für Deutschland die sowohl Export- als auch Importaktivitäten...
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