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NBER Papers in Productivity

NBER Papers in Productivity

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2009
w15532 Ashish Arora
Anand Nandkumar

Cash-out or flame-out! Opportunity cost and entrepreneurial strategy: Theory, and evidence from the information security industry

w15509 Wolfgang Keller
Stephen R. Yeaple

Gravity in the Weightless Economy

w15508 James B. Davies
Susanna Sandström
Anthony B. Shorrocks
Edward N. Wolff

The Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth

w15507 Giovanni Peri
The Effect of Immigration on Productivity: Evidence from US States

w15501 William Kerr
The Agglomeration of US Ethnic Inventors

w15500 Haizheng Li
Barbara M. Fraumeni
Zhiqiang Liu
Xiaojun Wang

Human Capital In China

w15499 William Kerr
Ramana Nanda

Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Firm Entry Size

w15498 William Kerr
Ramana Nanda

Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

w15490 Eric J. Bartelsman
John C. Haltiwanger
Stefano Scarpetta

Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection

w15489 James D. Adams
J. Roger Clemmons

The Role of Search in University Productivity: Inside, Outside, and Interdisciplinary Dimensions

w15486 Carol McAusland
Peter J. Kuhn

Bidding for Brains: Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers

w15474 James Feyrer
The US Productivity Slowdown, the Baby Boom, and Management Quality

w15468 Margaret Kyle
Anita McGahan

Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS

w15466 Pierre Azoulay
Joshua S. Graff Zivin
Gustavo Manso

Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences

w15443 William R. Kerr
Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

w15442 Wolfgang Keller
International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers

w15437 Ajay K. Agrawal
Iain M. Cockburn
Carlos Rosell

Not Invented Here? Innovation in Company Towns

w15433 Maxim Pinkovskiy
Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income

w15428 Diego A. Comin
Norman Loayza
Farooq Pasha
Luis Serven

Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries

w15423 David Popp
Richard G. Newell

Where Does Energy R&D Come From? Examining Crowding Out from Environmentally-Friendly R&D

w15393 Lee Branstetter
Kamal Saggi

Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development

w15359 Emi Nakamura
Jón Steinsson

Lost in Transit: Product Replacement Bias and Pricing to Market

w15351 Robert J. Gordon
Misperceptions About the Magnitude and Timing of Changes in American Income Inequality

w15349 Klaus Desmet
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Spatial Development

w15346 Tavneet Suri
Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption

w15341 Charles R. Hulten
Growth Accounting

w15325 Bronwyn H. Hall
Josh Lerner

The Financing of R&D and Innovation

w15319 Diego A. Comin
Bart Hobijn

The CHAT Dataset

w15315 Carolin Haeussler
Lin Jiang
Jerry Thursby
Marie C. Thursby

Specific and General Information Sharing Among Academic Scientists

w15312 Robert B. Barsky
Eric R. Sims

News Shocks

w15285 Waverly W. Ding
Sharon G. Levin
Paula E. Stephan
Anne E. Winkler

The Impact of Information Technology on Scientists' Productivity, Quality and Collaboration Patterns

w15278 David Galenson
The Greatest Photographers of the Twentieth Century

w15233 James D. Adams
Is the U.S. Losing Its Preeminence in Higher Education?

w15214 David M. Cutler
Robert S. Huckman
Jonathan T. Kolstad

Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

w15210 Patrick Bajari
Jeremy T. Fox
Kyoo il Kim
Stephen P. Ryan

A Simple Nonparametric Estimator for the Distribution of Random Coefficients

w15198 Jan De Loecker
Frederic Warzynski

Markups and firm-level export status

w15162 Christopher R. Knittel
Automobiles on Steroids: Product Attribute Trade-Offs and Technological Progress in the Automobile Sector

w15152 Loren Brandt
Johannes Van Biesebroeck
Yifan Zhang

Creative Accounting or Creative Destruction? Firm-level Productivity Growth in Chinese Manufacturing

w15147 Jeremy T. Fox
Amit Gandhi

Identifying Heterogeneity in Economic Choice Models

w15129 Nicholas Bloom
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen

The organization of firms across countries

w15117 Michael W. L. Elsby
Matthew D. Shapiro

Stepping Off the Wage Escalator: The Effects of Wage Growth on Equilibrium Employment

w15102 Henry Chen
Paul Gompers
Anna Kovner
Josh Lerner

Buy Local? The Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion

w15094 Charles I. Jones
Paul M. Romer

The New Kaldor Facts: Ideas, Institutions, Population, and Human Capital

w15061 Ryan L. Lampe
Petra Moser

Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry

w15060 Ryan Kellogg
Learning by Drilling: Inter-Firm Learning and Relationship Persistence in the Texas Oilpatch

w15029 Diego A. Comin
Mark Gertler
Ana Maria Santacreu

Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations

w14975 Nicholas Bloom
Luis Garicano
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen

The distinct effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on firm organization

w14960 Boyan Jovanovic
Peter L. Rousseau

Extensive and Intensive Investment over the Business Cycle

w14946 Michael Schwarz
Yuri Takhteyev

Half a Century of Public Software Institutions: Open Source as a Solution to Hold-Up Problem

w14935 Marcela Eslava
John C. Haltiwanger
Adriana D. Kugler
Maurice Kugler

Trade Reforms and Market Selection: Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia

w14920 Jennifer Hunt
Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa

w14868 Bronwyn H. Hall
Business and Financial Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy

w14865 Jonathan Skinner
Douglas Staiger

Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care

w14856 Thomas J. Holmes
Julia Thornton Snider

A Theory of Outsourcing and Wage Decline

w14832 David Popp
Richard G. Newell
Adam B. Jaffe

Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change

w14797 Albert Link
Christopher Ruhm

Public Knowledge, Private Knowledge: The Intellectual Capital of Entrepreneurs

w14769 Philippe Aghion
John Van Reenen
Luigi Zingales

Innovation and Institutional Ownership

w14758 Shane Greenstein
Ryan C. McDevitt

The Broadband Bonus: Accounting for Broadband Internet's Impact on U.S. GDP

w14750 Chris Forman
Avi Goldfarb
Shane Greenstein

The Internet and Local Wages: Convergence or Divergence?

w14737 Gautam Gowrisankaran
Marc Rysman

Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods

w14736 Barbara M. Fraumeni
The Contribution of Highways to GDP Growth

w14714 Bronwyn H. Hall
Grid Thoma
Salvatore Torrisi

Financial Patenting in Europe

w14704 Thomas J. Holmes
Sanghoon Lee

Economies of Density versus Natural Advantage: Crop Choice on the Back Forty

w14670 Bee Yan Aw
Mark J. Roberts
Daniel Yi Xu

R&D Investment, Exporting, and Productivity Dynamics

w14661 Hanno Lustig
Chad Syverson
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

Technological Change and the Growing Inequality in Managerial Compensation

w14638 William D. Nordhaus
The Perils of the Learning Model For Modeling Endogenous Technological Change


2008
w14626 Wolfgang Keller
Stephen R. Yeaple

Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy

w14623 Josh Lerner
Morten Sørensen
Per Strömberg

Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation

w14616 J. Christina Wang
Susanto Basu
John G. Fernald

A General-Equilibrium Asset-Pricing Approach to the Measurement of Nominal and Real Bank Output

w14615 Susanto Basu
Robert Inklaar
J. Christina Wang

The Value of Risk: Measuring the Service Output of U.S. Commercial Banks

w14614 J. Christina Wang
Susanto Basu

Risk Bearing, Implicit Financial Services and Specialization in the Financial Industry

w14610 Jonathan Eaton
Samuel Kortum
Francis Kramarz

An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms

w14606 Eli Berman
Jacob N. Shapiro
Joseph H. Felter

Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq

w14602 Matthew J. Higgins
Paula E. Stephan
Jerry G. Thursby

Conveying Quality and Value in Emerging Industries: Star Scientists and the Role of Learning in Biotechnology

w14580 Loretti I. Dobrescu
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Alberto F. Motta

Why Aren't Developed Countries Saving?

w14548 Charles R. Hulten
Xiaohui Hao

What is a Company Really Worth? Intangible Capital and the "Market to Book Value" Puzzle

w14594 Bronwyn H. Hall
Francesca Lotti
Jacques Mairesse

Innovation and Productivity in SMEs: Empirical Evidence for Italy

w14592 Ajay Agrawal
Devesh Kapur
John McHale

Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation

w14577 Pierre Azoulay
Joshua S. Graff Zivin
Jialan Wang

Superstar Extinction

w14575 James D. Adams
J. Roger Clemmons

The NBER-Rensselaer Scientific Papers Database: Form, Nature, and Function

w14560 Robert J. Gordon
Did Economics Cause World War II?

w14558 M. Ayhan Kose
Eswar S. Prasad
Marco E. Terrones

Does Openness to International Financial Flows Raise Productivity Growth?

w14552 Jacques Mairesse
Benoit Mulkay

An Exploration of Local R&D Spillovers in France

w14527 Hans Fehr
Sabine Jokisch
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers

w14509 Diego A. Comin
An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s

w14481 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Jan Svejnar
Katherine Terrell

Globalization and innovation in emerging markets

w14477 Alla Lileeva
Johannes Van Biesebroeck

Outsourcing when Investments are Specific and Complementary

w14454 Matteo Bugamelli
Fabiano Schivardi
Roberta Zizza

The Euro and Firm Restructuring

w14443 Henry Sauermann
Wesley M. Cohen

What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation

w14436 Liran Einav
Ephraim Leibtag
Aviv Nevo

Not-so-Classical Measurement Errors: A Validation Study of Homescan

w14434 Aviv Nevo
Adam M. Rosen

Identification with Imperfect Instruments

w14433 Rachel Griffith
Ephraim Leibtag
Andrew Leicester
Aviv Nevo

Timing and Quantity of Consumer Purchases and the Consumer Price Index

w14394 Nicholas Bloom
Christos Genakos
Ralf Martin
Raffaella Sadun

Modern Management: Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?

w14368 Timothy Erickson
Ariel Pakes

An Experimental Component Index for the CPI: From Annual Computer Data to Monthly Data on Other Goods

w14324 Josh Lerner
The Litigation of Financial Innovations

w14286 Mary Lovely
David Popp

Trade, Technology, and the Environment: Why Have Poor Countries Regulated Sooner?

w14257 Alan M. Garber
Jonathan Skinner

Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?

w14226 Emmanuel Dechenaux
Jerry Thursby
Marie C. Thursby

Inventor Moral Hazard in University Licensing: The Role of Contracts

w14216 Rupert Harrison
Jordi Jaumandreu
Jacques Mairesse
Bettina Peters

Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries

w14178 Ana M. Fernandes
Ariel Pakes

Factor Utilization in Indian Manufacturing: A Look at the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys Data

w14166 Maris Goldmanis
Ali Hortacsu
Chad Syverson
Onsel Emre

E-commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries

w14138 Benjamin F. Jones
The Knowledge Trap: Human Capital and Development Reconsidered

w14121 Robert E. Lipsey
Measuring the Location of Production in a World of Intangible Productive Assets, FDI, and Intrafirm Trade

w14117 Ariel Pakes
Theory and Empirical Work on Imperfectly Competitive Markets

w14116 Eric Bond
James R. Tybout
Hâle Utar

Credit Rationing, Risk Aversion and Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries

w14108 Maria Elena Bontempi
Jacques Mairesse

Intangible Capital and Productivity: An Exploration on a Panel of Italian Manufacturing Firms

w14099 Barbara M. Fraumeni
Marshall B. Reinsdorf
Brooks B. Robinson
Matthew P. Williams

Price and Real Output Measures for the Education Function of Government: Exploratory Estimates for Primary & Secondary Education

w14079 Ram C. Acharya
Wolfgang Keller

Estimating the Productivity Selection and Technology Spillover Effects of Imports

w14057 Albert N. Link
Christopher J. Ruhm

Bringing Science to Market: Commercializing from NIH SBIR Awards

w14043 Shih-tse Lo
Dhanoos Sutthiphisal

Crossover Inventions And Knowledge Diffusion Of General Purpose Technologies? Evidence From The Electrical Technology

w14029 James A. Brander
Edward J. Egan
Thomas F. Hellmann

Government Sponsored versus Private Venture Capital: Canadian Evidence

w14020 Kam Yu
Measuring the Output and Prices of the Lottery Sector: An Application of Implicit Expected Utility Theory

w14018 Erwin Diewert
Saeed Heravi
Mick Silver

Hedonic Imputation versus Time Dummy Hedonic Indexes

w14009 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Gautier Duflos

Pharmaceutical innovation and the longevity of Australians: a first look

w14008 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Have Newer Cardiovascular Drugs Reduced Hospitalization? Evidence From Longitudinal Country-Level Data on 20 OECD Countries, 1995-2003

w14005 David Galenson
The Globalization of Advanced Art in the Twentieth Century

w14000 Boyan Jovanovic
When Should Firms Invest in Old Capital?

w13998 Boyan Jovanovic
Peter L. Rousseau

Specific Capital and Technological Variety

w13975 Sabien Dobbelaere
Jacques Mairesse

Panel Data Estimates Of The Production Function And Product And Labor Market Imperfections

w13959 Gustavo Crespi
Chiara Criscuolo
Jonathan E. Haskel
Matthew Slaughter

Productivity Growth, Knowledge Flows, and Spillovers

w13953 Martin S. Feldstein
Did Wages Reflect Growth in Productivity?

w13938 Carlos J. Serrano
The Dynamics of the Transfer and Renewal of Patents

w13864 Thomas J. Holmes
David K. Levine
James A. Schmitz
Jr.

Monopoly and the Incentive to Innovate When Adoption Involves Switchover Disruptions

w13857 Margaret E. Blume-Kohout
Neeraj Sood

The Impact of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical R&D

w13840 Ian Dew-Becker
Robert J. Gordon

The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth

w13835 Bronwyn H. Hall
Alessandro Maffioli

Evaluating the Impact of Technology Development Funds in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Latin America

w13833 Michael Greenstone
Richard Hornbeck
Enrico Moretti

Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Million Dollar Plants

w13823 James D. Adams
J. Roger Clemmons

The Origins of Industrial Scientific Discoveries

w13786 Joseph Chen
Samuel Hanson
Harrison Hong
Jeremy C. Stein

Do Hedge Funds Profit From Mutual-Fund Distress?

w13783 Thomas J. Holmes
The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density

w13760 Nick Johnstone
Ivan Hascic
David Popp

Renewable Energy Policies And Technological Innovation: Evidence Based On Patent Counts

w13725 Eli Berman
David D. Laitin

Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model


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