NBER Papers in Productivity

NBER Papers in Productivity

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2008
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
Hāle 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


2007
w13698 Hiau Looi Kee
Kala Krishna

Firm Level Heterogeneous Productivity and Demand Shocks: Evidence from Bangladesh

w13686 Jan Eeckhout
Boyan Jovanovic

Occupational Choice and Development

w13666 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Using Firm Optimization to Evaluate and Estimate Returns to Scale

w13654 Edward P. Lazear
Kathryn L. Shaw

Wage Structure, Raises and Mobility: International Comparisons of the Structure of Wages Within and Across Firms

w13653 Edward P. Lazear
Kathryn L. Shaw

Personnel Economics: The Economist's View of Human Resources

w13652 Kathryn Shaw
Edward P. Lazear

Tenure and Output

w13651 Ann Bartel
Casey Ichniowski
Kathryn Shaw
Ricardo Correa

International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New HR Practices: The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. and U.K.

w13644 Iain M. Cockburn
Megan MacGarvie

Patents, Thickets, and the Financing of Early-Stage Firms: Evidence from the Software Industry

w13633 Boris Groysberg
Ashish Nanda
M. Julia Prats

Does Individual Performance Affect Entrepreneurial Mobility? Empirical Evidence from the Financial Analysis Market

w13632 Timothy S. Simcoe
Stuart J.H. Graham
Maryann Feldman

Competing on Standards? Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property and the Platform Paradox

w13592 Jeremy Greenwood
Karen A. Kopecky

Measuring the Welfare Gain from Personal Computers

w13547 Lynne G. Zucker
Michael R. Darby

Star Scientists, Innovation and Regional and National Immigration

w13519 Brian Jacob
Lars Lefgren

The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity

w13500 Paul Beaudry
Patrick Francois

The Economics of Inefficient Technology Use

w13473 Bronwyn H. Hall
Measuring the Returns to R&D: The Depreciation Problem

w13469 Charles R. Hulten
Anders Isaksson

Why Development Levels Differ: The Sources of Differential Economic Growth in a Panel of High and Low Income Countries

w13459 John M. de Figueiredo
Brian S. Silverman

How Does the Government (Want to) Fund Science? Politics, Lobbying and Academic Earmarks

w13439 David Popp
Tamara Hafner
Nick Johnstone

Policy vs. Consumer Pressure: Innovation and Diffusion of Alternative Bleaching Technologies in the Pulp Industry

w13426 Bronwyn H. Hall
Grid Thoma
Salvatore Torrisi

The market value of patents and R&D: Evidence from European firms

w13405 Thomas Philippon
Why Has the U.S. Financial Sector Grown so Much? The Role of Corporate Finance.

w13385 Nicholas Bloom
The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks

w13351 Giulia Faggio
Kjell Salvanes
John Van Reenen

The Evolution of Inequality in Productivity and Wages: Panel Data Evidence

w13338 Rachel Griffith
Sokbae Lee
John Van Reenen

Is Distance Dying at Last? Falling Home Bias in Fixed Effects Models of Patent Citations

w13326 Andrew Atkeson
Ariel Burstein

Innovation, firm dynamics, and international trade

w13322 Mary Benner
Joel Waldfogel

Close to You? Bias and Precision in Patent-Based Measures of Technological Proximity

w13320 Boyan Jovanovic
Bubbles in Prices of Exhaustible Resources

w13307 Boyan Jovanovic
Investment Options and the Business Cycle

w13306 Johannes Van Biesebroeck
Wage and Productivity Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa

w13302 Klaus Desmet
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Spatial Growth and Industry Age

w13298 Tae Okada
Charles Yuji Horioka

A Comment on Nishimura, Nakajima, and Kiyota's "Does the natural selection mechanism still work in severe recessions? Examination of the Japanese economy in the 1990s"

w13297 Alla Lileeva
Daniel Trefler

Improved Access to Foreign Markets Raises Plant-Level Productivity ... for Some Plants

w13296 Bronwyn H. Hall
Francesca Lotti
Jacques Mairesse

Employment, Innovation, and Productivity: Evidence from Italian Microdata

w13294 Petra Moser
Why Don't Inventors Patent?

w13290 Chang-Tai Hsieh
Peter J. Klenow

Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India

w13272 Glenn Ellison
Is Peer Review in Decline?

w13269 Jeffrey I. Bernstein
Theofanis P. Mamuneas

Irreversible Investment, Capital Costs and Productivity Growth: Implications for Telecommunications

w13256 Jerry Thursby
Anne Fuller
Marie Thursby

US Faculty Patenting: Inside and Outside the University

w13239 Robert E. Lipsey
Birgitta Swedenborg

Explaining Product Price Differences Across Countries

w13235 Sharon Novak
Scott Stern

How Does Outsourcing Affect Performance Dynamics? Evidence from the Automobile Industry

w13234 Joshua S. Gans
David H. Hsu
Scott Stern

The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market For Ideas: Evidence From Patent Grant Delays

w13232 Sharon Novak
Scott Stern

Complementarity Among Vertical Integration Decisions: Evidence from Automobile Product Development

w13226 Steven J. Davis
John Haltiwanger
Ron S. Jarmin
C. J. Krizan
Javier Miranda
Alfred Nucci
Kristin Sandusky

Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses: Integrating the Employer and Nonemployer Universes

w13212 Thomas J. Holmes
Michael Walrath

Dynamics of Union Organizations: A Look at Gross Flows in the LORS Files

w13172 Sinan Aral
Erik Brynjolfsson
Marshall Van Alstyne

Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence

w13162 Lena Edlund
Wojciech Kopczuk

Women, Wealth and Mobility

w13158 Shane Greenstein
Economic Experiments and Neutrality in Internet Access

w13156 Lisa M. Lynch
The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy

w13155 Jan De Loecker
Product Differentiation, Multi-product Firms and Estimating the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity

w13153 Deepak Hegde
David C. Mowery
Stuart Graham

Pioneers, Submariners, or Thicket-builders: Which Firms Use Continuations in Patenting?

w13146 Iain M. Cockburn
Stefan Wagner

Patents and the Survival of Internet-related IPOs

w13118 Laura Alfaro
Andrew Charlton

International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurial Firm Activity

w13116 Sandra E. Black
Alexandra Spitz-Oener

Explaining Women's Success: Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work

w13086 Ram C. Acharya
Wolfgang Keller

Technology Transfer through Imports

w13085 Nicholas Bloom
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen

Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle

w13060 Nicholas Bloom
Mark Schankerman
John Van Reenen

Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

w13057 Kevin H. O'Rourke
Ahmed S. Rahman
Alan M. Taylor

Trade, Knowledge, and the Industrial Revolution

w13053 William A. Pizer
David Popp

Endogenizing Technological Change: Matching Empirical Evidence to Modeling Needs

w13043 John M. Abowd
John Haltiwanger
Julia Lane
Kevin L. McKinney
Kristin Sandusky

Technology and the Demand for Skill:An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences

w13035 Robert Dekle
Jonathan Eaton
Samuel Kortum

Unbalanced Trade

w13033 Lee Branstetter
Raymond Fisman
C. Fritz Foley
Kamal Saggi

Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence

w13018 Diego Restuccia
Richard Rogerson

Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants

w13016 James J. Heckman
Dimitriy V. Masterov

The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children

w13015 Susan Helper
Morris M. Kleiner

International Differences in Lean Production, Productivity and Employee Attitudes

w12968 Margaret K. Kyle
Strategic Responses to Parallel Trade

w12894 Ali Hortacsu
Chad Syverson

Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices

w12886 Diego Comin
Bart Hobijn

Implementing Technology

w12878 Wei Chi
Richard B. Freeman
Morris M. Kleiner

Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs

w12874 Boyan Jovanovic
Balązs Szentes

On the Return to Venture Capital

w12871 Jess Benhabib
Boyan Jovanovic

Optimal Migration: A World Perspective

w12860 David H. Autor
William R. Kerr
Adriana D. Kugler

Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

w12841 Nicholas Bloom
Uncertainty and the Dynamics of R&D

w12829 Sean M. Dougherty
Robert Inklaar
Robert H. McGuckin
Bart van Ark

International Comparisons of R&D Expenditure: Does an R&D PPP Make a Difference?

w12823 Ajay Agrawal
Devesh Kapur
John McHale

Birds of a Feather - Better Together? Exploring the Optimal Spatial Distribution of Ethnic Inventors


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