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Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance
Bernard, Andrew B.; Moxnes, Andreas; Saito, Yukiko U. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper examines the importance of buyer-supplier relationships, geography and the structure of the production network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262884
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A Note on the Empirical Implementation of the Lens Condition
Robertson, Raymond; Schott, Peter K.; Bernard, Andrew B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Deardorff [Journal of International Economics 36 (1994) 167-175] offers an intuitively appealing test for factor price equality (FPE). He demonstrates that FPE is impossible if the set (i.e., lens) of points defined by regional factor abundance vectors does not lie within the set of points...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830512
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Testing for Factor Price Equality with Unobserved Differences in Factor Quality or Productivity
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012
We develop a method for identifying departures from relative factor price equality that is robust to unobserved variation in factor productivity. We implement this method using data on the relative wage bills of non-production and production workers across 170 local labor markets comprising the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010859539
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Factor price equality and the economies of the United States
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
We develop a methodology for identifying departures from relative factor price equality across regions that is valid under general assumptions about production, markets and factors. Application of this methodology to the United States reveals substantial and increasing deviations in relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745203
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The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach
Bernard, Andrew B.; Dhyne, Emmanuel; Magerman, Glenn; … - 2019
This paper quantifies the origins of firm size heterogeneity when firms are interconnected in a production network. Using the universe of buyer-supplier relationships in Belgium, the paper develops a set of stylized facts that motivate a model in which firms buy inputs from upstream suppliers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018138
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Understanding Increasing and Decreasing Wage Inequality
Jensen, J. Bradford; Bernard, Andrew B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998
This paper uses data on inequality within U.S. states to test hypotheses about the sources of rising wage inequality during the 1970s and 1980s. State labor markets are found to respond to local demand shocks in the short and medium run and to national (industry) demand shocks only after long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050356
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Importers, Exporters, and Multinationals: A Portrait of Firms in the U.S. that Trade Goods
Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, Peter K.; Bernard, Andrew B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
U.S. international trade transactions to longitudinal data on U.S. enterprises. These data permit examination of a … number of new dimensions of firm activity, including how many products firms trade, how many countries firms trade with, the … characteristics of those countries, the concentration of trade across firms, whether firms transact at arms length or with related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050403
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The origins of firm heterogeneity: A production network approach
Bernard, Andrew B.; Dhyne, Emmanuel; Magerman, Glenn; … - 2019
This paper quantifies the origins of firm size heterogeneity when firms are interconnected in a production network. Using the universe of buyer-supplier relationships in Belgium, the paper develops a set of stylized facts that motivate a model in which firms buy inputs from upstream suppliers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141552
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Factor Price Equality and the Economies of the United States
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We develop a methodology for identifying departures from relative factor price equality across regions that is valid under general assumptions about production, markets and factors. Application of this methodology to the United States reveals substantial and increasing deviations in relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662030
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Factor Price Equality and the Economies of the United States
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005
We develop a methodology for identifying departures from relative factor price equality across regions that is valid under general assumptions about production, markets and factors. Application of this methodology to the United States reveals substantial and increasing deviations in relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670455