-making machines will be denied to China, Russia, and other adversaries. However, the Act will not make a material difference to US … supplies. While collective measures have inflicted considerable short-term pain on China, causing a sharp drop in the fortunes … of its high-tech firms, China will respond by redoubling its self-sufficiency programs. The United States, however …

This paper analyzes the productivity in the US rail industry for the period 1980 - 2006. I propose a value … productivity gains can be attributed to returns to scale and the reshuffling of resources to more efficient firms. However …, productivity slows down for the period 1995 - 2000 after important concentrations. I also look at the correlations between firm …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …