The NBER Project on Industrial Technology and Productivity

The Adoption of Offset Presses in the Daily Newspaper Industry in the United States
David Genesove
NBER Working Paper 7076

Do Stock Price Movements Reveal Profit Dissipation: An Investigation of the Gold Mining Industry
Joseph Farrell and Severin Borenstein
NBER Working Paper 7075

Displaced Capital
Valerie Ramey and Matthew Shapiro
NBER Working Paper 6775

The Last American Shoe Manufacturers: Changing the Method of Pay to Survive Foreign Competition
Richard Freeman and Morris Kleiner
NBER Working Paper 6750

Proofs and Prototypes for Sale: The Tale of University Licensing
Richard Jensen and Marie Thursby
NBER Working Paper 6698

Environmental Regulation and Productivity: Evidence From Oil Refineries
Eli Berman and Linda T. Bui
NBER Working Paper 6676

The Pay to Performance Incentives of Executive Stock Options
Brian Hall
NBER Working Paper 6674

The Institutional Context and Manufacturing Performance: The Case of the U.S. Defense Industrial Network
Cynthia Cook and Maryellen Kelley
NBER Working Paper 6460

The Introduction of Pharmaceutical Product Patents in India: "Heartless Exploitation of the Poor and Suffering"?
Jean O. Lanjouw
NBER Working Paper 6366

Capturing Technological Opportunity via Japan's Star Scientists: Evidence from Japanese Firms' Biotech Patents and Products
Michael Darby and Lynne Zucker
NBER Working Paper 6360

Are CEO's Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?
Brian J. Hall and Jeffrey B. Liebman
NBER Working Paper 6213

Skill-Biased Technical Change
Eli Berman, John Bound and Stephen Machin
NBER Working Paper 6166

Effects of Air Quality Regulations on Decisions of Firms in Polluting Industries
Randy Becker and J. Vernon Henderson
NBER Working Paper 6160

Rational Atrophy: The U.S. Steel Industry
Aaron Tornell
NBER Working Paper 6084

Japanese Research Consortia: A Microeconomic Analysis of Industrial Policy
Lee Branstetter and Mariko Sakakibara
NBER Working Paper 6066

Evidence from Patents and Patent Citations on the Impact of NASA and other Federal Labs on Commercial Innovation
Bruce Banks, Michael Fogarty and Adam B. Jaffe
NBER Working Paper 6044

Environmental Regulation, Investment Timing and Technology Choice
Wayne Gray and Ronald J. Shadbegian
NBER Working Paper 6036

Complementarity and Cost Reduction: Evidence form the Auto Supply Industry
Susan Helper
NBER Working Paper 6033

Public-Private Interaction and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research
Iain Cockburn and Rebecca Henderson
NBER Working Paper 6018

The Control of Strategic Alliances: An Empirical Analysis of Biotechnology Collaborations
Joshua Lerner and Robert P. Merges
NBER Working Paper 6014

A Clinical Exploration of Value Creation and Destruction in Acquisitions: Organization Design, Incentives & Internal Capital Markets
Steven Kaplan, Mark Mitchell and Karen Wruck
NBER Working Paper 5999

Consolidation in the Medical Care Market Place: A Case Study From Massachusetts
Jason Barro and David Cutler
NBER Working Paper 5957

The Myth of the Patient Japanese: Corporate Myopia and Financial Distress in Japan and the US
Brian J. Hall and David E. Weinstein
NBER Working Paper 5818

Environmental Change and Hedonic Cost Functions for Automobiles
Steven Berry, Samuel Kortum and Ariel Pakes
NBER Working Paper 5746

Performance Pay and Productivity
Edward Lazear
NBER Working Paper 5672

Computer Use and Productivity Growth in Federal Government Agencies, 1987 to 1992
William Lehr and Frank Lichtenberg
NBER Working Paper 5616

Why has the Employment-Productivity tradeoff among Industrialized Countries been so strong?
Paul Beaudry, Fabrice Collard

Changes in US Wages 1976-2000: Ongoing Skill Bias or Major Technological Change?
Paul Baeudry and David Green

Information, Decisions, and Productivity On Board computers and Capacity Utilization in Trucking
Thomas N. Hubbard

Patent and International Knowledge Flow: The Cases of Korea and Taiwan
Albert G. Z Hu, Adam B. Jaffe

Opportunity Counts: Teams and the Effectiveness of Production Incentives
Brent Boning, Casey Ichniowski, Kathryn Shaw

Directed Technical Change
Daron Acemoglu

Comparative Localization of Academic and Industrial Spillovers
James D. Adams

When Is U.S. Bank Lending to Emerging Markets Volatile?
Linda S. Goldberg

Cross-Country Technology Diffusion: The Case of Computers
Francesco Caselli and Wilbur John Coleman II

Alternative Methods for Measuring Productivity Growth
William D. Nordhous

New Data and Output Concepts for Understanding Productivity Trends
William D. Nordhous

Productivity Growth and the New Economy
William D. Nordhous

The Regulation of Entry
Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez de Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer

The Influence of Federal Laboratory R&D on Industrial Research
James D. Adams, Eric P. Chiang, Jeffrey L. Jensen

Introduction to AEA Papers
Martin Feldstein

Commercial Activity in the Ivory Tower: Propensity and Productivity
Jerry G. Thursby and Marie C. Thursby

Who Benefits Most From Employee Involvement: Firms or Workers?
Richard B. Freeman and Morris M. Kleiner

Is Cost Cutting Evidence of X-inefficiency?
Severin Borenstein and Joseph Farrell

Knowledge Spillovers and Patent Citations: Evidence from a Survey of Inventors
Adam B. Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg, Michael S. Fogarty

Economists and Field Research: "You Can Observe a Lot Just by Watching
Susan Helper

Social Capital and Organizational Change in High-Involvement and Traditional Work Organizations
Jon Gant, Casey Ichniowski, and Kathryn Shaw

Productivity in the Canadian Banking Industry
Ann P. Bartel

Productivity in the U.S. Auto Industry: Evidence from Multiple Perspectives
James Levinsohn

Workforce Integration and the Dissipation of Value in Mergers: The Case of USAir's Acquisition of Piedmont Aviation
Stacey Kole and Kenneth Lehn
This paper is a chapter in Mergers and Productivity, edited by Steven N. Kaplan

Paths to Creating Value in Pharmaceutical Mergers
William Long and David Ravenscraft
This paper is a chapter in Mergers and Productivity, edited by Steven N. Kaplan

Is the Bank Merger Wave of the 1990's Efficient?
Charles Calomiris and Jason Karceski
This paper is a chapter in Mergers and Productivity, edited by Steven N. Kaplan

The Eclipse of the U.S. Tire Industry
Raghuram Rajan, Luigi Zingales and Paolo Volpin
This paper is a chapter in Mergers and Productivity, edited by Steven N. Kaplan