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  • Three essays on international trade and regional productivity

    Creator:
    Moon, Hanpil
    Abstract:
    A firm's productivity is composed of two parts: pure technical change and location-specific (agglomeration) externalities. Regional productivity is thus an aggregation of productivity of firms producing similar goods and located in a given region. International trade can affect both components of regional productivity. First, trade openness in a closed economy...
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    Dissertation
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    affects regional productivity using county-level data from Korea and firm-level data from India

  • Essays in efficiency and productivity analysis of economic systems

    Creator:
    Zelenyuk, Valentin
    Abstract:
    In this work I integrate some of my recent research developments in the theory and practice of Productivity and Efficiency Analysis of Economic Systems. In particular, I present some new theoretical relationships between various measures of efficiency and productivity, propose new solutions to some aggregation problems in efficiency analysis and...
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    Dissertation
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    ) EMPIRICAL APPLICATION OF EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS TO INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION: ESSAY 8: CAUSES

  • Trade costs and business dynamics in U.S. regions and industries

    Creator:
    Wu, Qian
    Abstract:
    Firms' participation in exporting or foreign direct investment is an extremely rare behavior: only 4 percent of over 5.5 million U.S. firms were exporters in 2000. Exporters are generally larger (e.g. output and employment) and more productive than firms serving only domestic markets. Such heterogeneity within a narrowly defined industry...
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    Dissertation
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    previously not recognized in trade literature: (i) exit of low productivity firms, and (ii) resource