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Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012

We study how exploration versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multiproduct firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new product lines and exploitation R&D to...

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The Industry R&D Survey: Patent Database Link Project

Kerr, William; Fu, Shihe - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2006

&D Survey conducted by the Census Bureau and National Science Foundation. The developed platform offers an unprecedented view of …

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IPO Waves, Product Market Competition, and the Going Public Decision: Theory and Evidence

Chemmanur, Thomas J.; He, Jie - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012

We develop a new rationale for IPO waves based on product market considerations. Two firms, with differing productivity levels, compete in an industry with a significant probability of a positive productivity shock. Going public, though costly, not only allows a firm to raise external capital...

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The Impact of Vintage and Survival on Productivity: Evidence from Cohorts of U.S. Manufacturing Plants

Jensen, J. Bradford; McGuckin, Robert H; Stiroh, Kevin J - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2000

This paper examines the evolution of productivity in U.S. manufacturing plants from 1963 to 1992. We define a “vintage effect” as the change in productivity of recent cohorts of new plants relative to earlier cohorts of new plants, and a “survival effect” as the change in productivity of...

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Evidence on IO Technology Assumptions From the Longitudinal Research Database

Mattey, Joe - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1993

plants from the Census Longitudinal Research Database. Extant empirical research has suggested the rejection of this model …

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IT Spending and Firm Productivity: Additional Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector

Stolarick, Kevin M - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1999

The information systems (IS) "productivity paradox" is based on those studies that found little or no positive relationship between firm productivity and spending on IS. However, some earlier studies and one more recent study have found a positive relationship. Given the large amounts spent by...

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Academic Science, Industrial R&D, and the Growth of Inputs

Adams, James D; Sveikauskas, Leo - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1993

This paper is a theoretical and empirical investigation of the connection between science, R&D, and the growth of … capital. Studies of high technology industries and recent labor studies agree in assigning a large role to science and … science, R&D, and factor markets suggested by these studies. In our theory lagged science increases the returns to R&D, so …

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Exiting Self-Employment: An Analysis of Asian Immigrant-Owned Small Businesses

Bates, Timothy - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1998

Part of the uniqueness of the immigrant Asian business community in the U.S. lies in the fact that many among the highly educated pursue self-employment in small-scale, low-yielding retail and personal service fields. This study analyzes owner departure for a nationwide sample of small...

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A Comparison of Job Creation and Job Destruction in Canada and the United States

Dunne, Timothy; Haltiwanger, John; Baldwin, John - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1994

In recent years a growing number of countries have constructed data series on job creation and job destruction using establishment-level data sets. This paper provides a description and detailed comparison of these new data series for the United States and Canada. First, the Canadian and United...

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Measuring Productivity Dynamics with Endogenous Choice of Technology and Capacity Utilization: An Application to Automobile Assembly

Biesebroeck, Johannes Van - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2000

previous research claim that these transplants are more productive than incumbent plants and that they produce with a …

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