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Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 1-2

This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa-based Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS). The objective of the Monitor is to focus atttention on the importance of productivity for improving living standards and quality of...

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On the examination of non-linear relationship between market structure and performance in the US manufacturing industry

Chen, Chaoyi; Polemis, Michael; Stengos, Thanasēs - In: Economics letters 164 (2018), pp. 1-4

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Returns to Scale, Productivity and Competition : Empirical Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing and Construction Establishments

Gao, Wei - 2017

techniques to establishment-level data from the U.S. Census of Construction and Manufacturing to assess returns to scale and … from 0.86 in Non-metallic Minerals to 1.3 in Semiconductors. Returns to scale tend to be highest in durable manufacturing …, medium in non-durable manufacturing and lowest in the production of housing. An economy characterized by such differences in …

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What Makes a Good Merger? An Analysis of Merger Efficiencies in the U.S. Bottled Water Industry

Zhang, Jun - 2018

I quantify efficiencies that were created following a horizontal merger between Coca-Cola and Glaceau, the manufacturer of Vitaminwater and Smartwater, in the U.S. premium bottled water market. I estimate a structural demand and supply model where manufacturers choose advertising, product...

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Some Observations on Claims That Rising Market Power Is Responsible for US Economy Ills and That Lax Antitrust Is the Villain

Carlton, Dennis W. - 2020

This paper evaluates the recent literature claiming that the US economy has generally become less competitive causing the US economy to perform poorly and that lax antitrust policy is one important reason for the decline in economic performance. Although there certainly are empirical facts...

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Factors Influencing the Magnitude of Cartel Overcharges : An Empirical Analysis of the US Market

Connor, John Murray - 2009

Using the overcharge estimates for 333 cartel episodes, we evaluate the impact of cartel characteristics and changes in the market and legal environment on the magnitude of overcharges imposed by private cartels in the US and other geographic markets as early as the 18th century. The median...

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Competition and Productivity in the UK and U.S. Tobacco Industries, 1879-1939

Zitzewitz, Eric - 2001

the U.S. appeared to have a slight lead resulting from earlier adoption of cigarette manufacturing machines. After the …

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The devil is in the details: assessing early industrial performance across international borders using late nineteenth century North American manufacturers as a case study.

Inwood, Kris; Keay, Ian - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 2 (2008) 2, pp. 85-117

/1871 to derive a series of total factor productivity (TFP) comparisons for a sample of manufacturing establishments located …

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Labor share decline across US manufacturing sub-sectors: 1979-2019

Sarangi, Swayamsiddha - 2023

This paper studies the sub-sectoral contributions to aggregate manufacturing labor share decline in the US between 1979 … and 2019. Using the Log Mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition, the decline in the manufacturing sector's labor share is … manufacturing. Moreover, low labor share sub-sectors (especially Chemical products, Food and Beverage and Tobacco products, and …

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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses

Dinlersoz, Emin Murat - 2014

What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...

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