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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   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Competition and Defaults in Online Search

Social Science Research Network
This paper offers the first systematic quantitative assessment of default-option interventions designed to mitigate Google's search dominance. By analyzing interventions in the European Economic Area (EEA), Russia, and Turkey, we find that across all ...
Francesco Decarolis   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillovers, and Industrial Quality Upgrading: Evidence from the Chinese Auto Industry

The American Economic Review
This paper studies the impact of quid pro quo (technology for market access) in facilitating knowledge spillovers and quality upgrading in the Chinese automobile industry.
J. Bai   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Take the Goods and Run: Contracting Frictions and Market Power in Supply Chains

The American Economic Review
This paper studies the efficiency of self-enforced relational agreements, a common solution to contracting frictions, when sellers have market power and contracts cannot be externally enforced.
Felipe Brugués
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Financial Technology Adoption: Network Externalities of Cashless Payments in Mexico

The American Economic Review
Do coordination failures constrain financial technology adoption? Exploiting the Mexican government’s rollout of 1 million debit cards to poor households from 2009 to 2012, I examine responses on both sides of the market and find important spillovers and
Sean D. Higgins
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Trends in the Organized Industrial Sector of Jammu and Kashmir: A Decadal Analysis

South Asia Economic Journal
Industrialization has been validated, tested and predicted as a reliable and sustainable route to development. Being late industrializers, the developing world started small on this journey.
Mehak Majeed   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Technology-Gap Model of ‘Premature’ Deindustrialization

The American Economic Review
We propose a parsimonious mechanism for generating premature deindustrialization (PD). In the baseline model, the Baumol effect drives the hump-shaped path of the manufacturing share.
Ippei Fujiwara, Kiminori Matsuyama
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The High and Falling Price of Cement in Africa

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Prices for several intermediate inputs, including cement, are higher in developing economies—particularly in Africa. Combining recent data from the International Comparison Program with a global directory of cement firms, we estimate an industry ...
F. Leone   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effect of International Quality Standards Certification on Participation in the Global Value Chain of Vietnamese Enterprises

Foreign Trade Review
This article examines how holding international quality standard certifications impacts the involvement of Vietnamese enterprises in the global value chain (GVC), drawing on data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey covering the years 2009 to 2023.
A. Nguyen   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Impact of Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Political Distortions†

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Political distortions are prevalent in many developing countries, implying substantial productivity losses. This paper investigates the impact of trade liberalization on political distortions in India.
Sebastian Jävervall, Roza Khoban
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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