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, 2013 : The present paper focuses on the relation between the Boone indicator and the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. Both measures of competition are employed for the container liner shipping industry.
Sys, Christa
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, 2015 Consumer search is analysed in a cross-sector study of six markets in the US, Germany and UK using online panel data. Two constructs are used to measure the search process: the consideration set and use of price comparison engines. The consideration sets
Holland, C.P. +3 more
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More Competition, Better Products: Evidence From Tariff Cuts
Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how increased competition affects product and process innovation. I combine plausibly exogenous variation in foreign competition induced by large tariff cuts with a difference‐in‐differences strategy and find that firms increase their product patenting in response to increased foreign competition, but, on average, foreign
Colin Davison
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The Ability to Adapt and Overcome Obstacles: Machinery Exports of Poland [PDF]
From 1980-2009 the Polish economy experienced structural dislocation. The growth and success of the Solidarity movement represented the shift in manufacturing from Soviet bloc trade to membership in the European Union.
Mitchell H. Kellman +1 more
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Demand Shocks, Export Diversification, and Firm Performance During the Great Trade Collapse
Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the impact of external demand shocks from the 2008 to 2009 Great Trade Collapse on the performance of Chinese exporters and examines how export diversification mitigates these effects. Using Chinese Customs data merged with financial data from all listed Chinese firms, we construct firm‐specific demand shocks based on pre ...
Qianlin Hong +3 more
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Worker Heterogeneity and the Effect of Noncompetes on Firm Performance
Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using staggered state‐level changes in noncompete enforceability, we document that reduced enforcement increases profitability, valuation, productivity, and plant‐level growth in knowledge‐worker‐intensive firms relative to other firms. Critically, these gains are concentrated among the most productive knowledge‐worker firms, consistent with ...
Zhaozhao He, Modupe Babajide Wintoki
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Are CSR incidents truly bad news?
Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.Abstract We revisit whether disclosures of negative Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) incidents adversely affect firms' stock prices. While univariate tests reveal significant negative abnormal returns around incident announcements, the effect disappears once firm characteristics, industry, and time‐fixed effects are controlled for.
Chen Chen +2 more
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Shock Propagation within Multisector Firms
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.Abstract This paper studies the role of multisector firms in the cross‐sectoral propagation of economic shocks. By leveraging an increase in import competition from China as a source of a negative economic shock, we show that employment of an establishment in a given industry is negatively affected by shocks that impact establishments operating in ...
JAY HYUN, ZIHO PARK, VLADIMIR SMIRNYAGIN
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The hhi Package: Streamlined Calculation and Visualization of Herfindahl-Hirschman Index Scores [PDF]
Journal of Open Source Software, 2018 openaire +1 more source
Assessing the Real Exchange Rate Misalignments: Is Real Undervaluation of the Currency Likely and Can It Be Sustained? [PDF]
There is a renewed debate on the role of exchange rate policies as industrial policy tools in both academic and policy circles. Policy practitioners usually examine real exchange rate (RER) misalignments to monitor the behavior of this key relative price
Megumi Kubota
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