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How to Construct Nationally Representative Firm-Level Data from the Orbis Global Database: New Facts on SMEs and Aggregate Implications for Industry Concentration

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
We construct nationally representative firm-level longitudinal data for European countries using financial statements from the Orbis database. We validate our data by comparing its coverage and firm size distribution to official statistics.
Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Bent E. Sørensen, Carolina Villegas-Sanchez, V. Volosovych, Sevcan Yeşiltaş   +4 more
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Power Flows: Transmission Lines, Allocative Efficiency, and Corporate Profits

The American Economic Review
Accelerated investment in electricity transmission could reduce total costs and enhance renewable integration. I document static allocative inefficiencies induced by incomplete market integration in 2 major US markets; these have risen over time and ...
Catherine Hausman
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Management and Misallocation in Mexico

Social Science Research Network
Using comprehensive administrative management surveys from Mexico and the United States, we document large management gaps between the two countries, driven by both lower average management quality among Mexican firms and greater misallocation.
N. Bloom, L. Iacovone, Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez, John Michael Van Reenen   +3 more
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The Benefits of Revealing Race: Evidence from Minority-Owned Local Businesses

The American Economic Review
Is there latent demand to support Black-owned businesses? We explore this question by analyzing a new feature that made it easier to identify Black-owned restaurants on an online platform.
Abhay P. Aneja, Mike Luca, O. Reshef
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Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies

The American Economic Review
We study the effects of intensifying competition for contracts in the context of US Defense procurement. Leveraging a discontinuous regulation that mandates agencies to publicize certain contract opportunities, we document that expanding the set of ...
R. Carril, Andrés González-Lira, M. S. Walker   +2 more
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Bactericidal action of ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) extract against Escherichia coli through synergistic modulation of the AcrAB-TolC efflux pump and inhibition of peptidoglycan synthesis: In vitro and in silico approaches.

Microbial Pathogenesis
The emergence of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli is considered a severe threat to global health, largely attributed to the bacterium's ability to expel antibiotics via efflux pump systems. This study explores the antibacterial efficacy of a methanol
Soumitra Moulick, R. Bera, D. N. Roy
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Investment Tax Incentives

The American Economic Review
This paper estimates the direct effects and indirect spillover effects of investment tax credits on firms. Exploiting a differential tax credit rate change by firm size in the German manufacturing sector, I find that lowering a firm's investment cost by ...
Adrian Lerche
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Design of a High-Performance Infrared Nonlinear Optical Crystal via a Multiple Flexible-Group Synergistic Polarization Strategy.

Journal of the American Chemical Society
The development of high-performance infrared (IR) nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals is fundamentally challenged by the conflicting requirements for a large NLO coefficient, a high laser damage threshold (LDT), and a broad IR transparency range.
Lihua Gao, Xuemei Shi, Jing Kong, F. Marlton, B. Kennedy, Guang Peng, Ning Ye, Jindong Chen   +7 more
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Are Complementary Policies Substitutes? Evidence from R&D Subsidies in the United Kingdom

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
This paper studies whether grants and tax incentives for private R&D are complements or substitutes. I use multiple quasi-experimental research designs to examine firms in the United Kingdom and find that increasing tax credit generosity substantially ...
J. Pless
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Understanding Firms' AI Efforts and Their Economic Impact

The Review of Corporate Finance Studies
This paper reviews firm-level data on artificial intelligence (AI) and the emerging evidence on AI’s economic effects. It argues that measurement is central: different AI data sets capture different objects, including invention versus use; internal ...
T. Babina
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