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Creator:: Kim, Sooil
Abstract:: This dissertation’s three essays investigate trade and productivity effects on firm behavior based on new heterogeneous-firms trade models in the case of Korea. In the first essay, firms’ decision to export in the case of Korean manufacturing industries is examined, where the change in firms’ productivity before and after exports...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: markets. In industries where Korea has a comparative advantage, high productivity of firms appears to

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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: affects regional productivity using county-level data from Korea and firm-level data from India

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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ) EMPIRICAL APPLICATION OF EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS TO INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION: ESSAY 8: CAUSES

Creator:: Choi, Jangho
Abstract:: The objective of this dissertation is to examine multi-product firms' productivity and export behavior. More specifically, this dissertation estimates productivity of firms that produce and sell multiple products, and the role of productivity in such firms' export behavior. In doing so, this dissertation develops a firm-level gravity approach to test...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Multi-Product Firms' Productivity and Export Behavior

Creator:: Saito, Hisamitsu
Abstract:: The objective of this dissertation is to theoretically and empirically examine the role of firm heterogeneity in terms of productivity and skill-intensity in the agglomeration process and the effect of agglomeration on regional economic development. In the first essay, I analyze the effect of trade liberalization on agglomeration of high-...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: productivity include specializing in targeted industry, diversifying regional industrial structure, enlarging

Creator:: Al-Agha, Osama K.
Abstract:: Productivity Interfirm Comparison (PIC) is a simple method used to improve productivity at the firm level, where a number of firms operate in the same product line so that performance information on the firms can be compiled and compared. This results in identifying potential areas for improvement or exploitation. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: The development of productivity interfirm comparison

Creator:: Nnaji, Chukwuma A.
Abstract:: Over the years, the performance of construction projects has been a main source of concern given the percentage of a project cost associated with poor project performance. As a result of the growing clamor to improve the output of the built industry, comprehensive studies have been conducted to examine the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: have been conducted to examine the factors that affect construction productivity, cost, schedule

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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: previously not recognized in trade literature: (i) exit of low productivity firms, and (ii) resource

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