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The Impact of Plant-level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth

Petrin, Amil; White, T. Kirk; Reiter, Jerome P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We build up from the plant level an "aggregate(d)" Solow residual by estimating every U.S. manufacturing plant's contribution to the change in aggregate final demand between 1976 and 1996. Our framework uses the Petrin and Levinsohn (2010) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which...

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Counterfeiters: Foes or Friends? How Do Counterfeits Affect Different Product Quality Tiers?

Qian, Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

A key concern about counterfeits and weak intellectual property protection is that they may hamper innovation by …

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Competitors, Complementors, Parents and Places: Explaining Regional Agglomeration in the U.S. Auto Industry

Cabral, Luis M B; Wang, Zhu; Xu, Daniel Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Taking the early U.S. automobile industry as an example, we evaluate four competing hypotheses on regional industry agglomeration: intra-industry local externalities, inter-industry local externalities, employee spinouts, and location fixed-effects. Our findings suggest that inter-industry...

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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing

Greenstone, Michael; list, john; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant observations drawn from the 1972-1993 Annual Survey of Manufactures, we estimate...

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International Differences in Lean Production, Productivity and Employee Attitudes

Helper, Susan; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

The study examines US-European productivity and worker attitude differences, focusing on changes in incentive structures. We analyze productivity and worker attitudes in five plants in the UK and US belonging to the same multinational producer of automotive sensors and actuators. We examine the...

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U.S. v. Microsoft: Did Consumers Win?

Evans, David A.; Schmalensee, Richard; Nichols, Albert L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

U.S. v. Microsoft and the related state suit filed in 1998 appear finally to have concluded. In a unanimous en banc decision issued in late June 2004, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to the remedies approved by the District Court in November 2002. The wave of follow-on...

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Productivity Growth and R&D Expenditure in Taiwan's Manufacturing Firms

Wang, Jiann-Chyuan; Tsai, Kuen-Hung - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

This study sets out to estimate the impact of R&D on productivity within the private sector, with further analysis of the different impacts of R&D in high-tech and conventional firms. The study also aims to estimate the rates of return on R&D investment and total factor productivity at firm...

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Are Knowledge Spillovers International or Intranational in Scope? Microeconometric Evidence from the Japan and the United States

Branstetter, Lee - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

relative impact of intranational and international knowledge spillovers on innovation and productivity at the firm level, using …

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Pharmaceutical Innovation, Mortality Reduction, and Economic Growth

Lichtenberg, Frank - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

We perform an econometric investigation of the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to mortality reduction and … pharmaceutical innovation, there would have been no increase and perhaps even a small decrease in mean age at death, and that new … drugs have increased life expectancy, and lifetime income, by about 0.75-1.0% per annum. The drug innovation measures are …

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Re-Assessing the U.S. Quality Adjustment to Computer Prices: The Role of Durability and Changing Software

Feenstra, Robert C.; Knittel, Christopher R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

In the second-half of the 1990s, the positive impact of information technology on productivity growth for the United States became apparent. The measurement of this productivity improvement depends on hedonic procedures adopted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and Bureau of Economic...

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