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"Using plant-level data from the Plant Capacity Utilization (PCU) Survey, we examine how a manufacturing plant's use of …
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We study the implications of microeconomic heterogeneity for aggregate technology, showing that the aggregate … manufacturing sector, and estimate an aggregate elasticity of approximately 0.72 in 1987. We find that the aggregate elasticity has …
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's comparative advantage remained the same as in the 1960s, and technology in all sectors grew at the same country-specific average … rate, trade volumes would be higher, cross-country export patterns more dissimilar, and intra-industry trade lower than in …
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reducing the relative price of manufacturing to services, and sectoral trade integration is important for industry polarization …We add to recent evidence on deindustrialization and document a new pattern: increasing industry polarization over time …
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This paper examines the relationship between real estate prices during the home price boom from the late 1990s into 2005 and competition among mortgage lenders. The mortgage lending business, especially with the rise of the originate-to-distribute model, had competitors with very different...
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