production and the working capital demands associated with offshoring and vertical specialization of production. We explore a … model of manufacturing production chains with offshoring where firms choose their time profile of production and where …

model in which different types of capital are interrelated in both the production and adjustment cost technologies. Our … ignored estimates of the adjustment costs are biased upward, and estimates of factor substitution in production are biased …

Convex output set is a common hypothesis in production theory and especially in empirical applications. This often … and production functions exhibiting variable returns to scale depends on the difference between relative variation … marginal products of production functions. Local concavity or convexity of output frontier are determined through several …

increasing pressure of the development of the international production sharing and production cooperation. The final result of …

This paper studies the evolution of China's production and trade patterns during its integration into the global … economy. We document and explain new facts concerning changes in production and exports at the industry and firm levels using … that capital deepening made China's production and exports more capital-intensive, although labor-biased productivity …

concern about weakened competition and resulting harm to consumers. Calls for tougher antitrust enforcement have become louder …

of these data limitations estimates of returns to scale at the firm level are for the revenue function, not production … rather than production functions and demonstrates that the profit share in revenue is a robust non-parametric economic …

This paper investigates competition in the Dutch manufacturing sector. We look at various indicators that have been … productivity growth are calculated at both the firm and industry level. This enables us to investigate differences in competition … and in its relation with productivity for both aggregation levels. Our results indicate that contemporaneous competition …