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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Heterogeneous Firms"”.
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INVESTMENTS IN PRODUCT QUALITY WITH HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM BANGLADESH
… dissertation investigates how competition among heterogeneous firms affects R&D in quality enhancement in a quality-ladder type framework for a Cournot oligopolistic industry. The research also analyzes the welfare implications of various policies that promotes R&D. Some of the theoretical …
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Essays is bank competition and credit policy
… of imperfect competition. The first essay uses heterogeneous exposure to large bank mergers to estimate the eect of bank competition on both financial and real variables in local Brazilian markets. Using detailed administrative data on loans and firms, we employ a difference-in-differences …
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Essays on the economics of migration and labour: Empirical evidence from the UK
… a model to explain the channels through which heterogeneous firms may adjust their product and process innovation activities in response to local labour supply shocks such as immigration inflows. Chapter 3 estimates the causal effect of technological exposure on UK local labour markets while …
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Rising technologies, investment and discount rates
… show that the rising share of intangibles in U.S firms' assets significantly dampens the stimulus effect of interest rate shocks. For a given surprise change to the fed funds rate, a one standard deviation above the mean in intangible capital intensity mutes investment's response by more than 30%. …
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Movement of heterogeneous goods and people.
… approach on both fronts, modeling plants as heterogeneous and calibrating the elasticities to match estimated markups in each sector. I introduce these features by adapting a \citeasnoun{hop92} model of plant entry and exit and embed this in a multisector trade model. I calibrate the model …
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Mergers and Acquisitions with a Flexible Policy Regime: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
… economies. Chapters 1 and 2 consider M&As among firms in a pollution-intensive sector. Chapter 1 shows that identical polluting firms engage in M&As only if environmental policies are flexible. Chapter 2 shows that the flexibility of environmental policy increases the incentive to merge among …
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Firm growth and worker turnover in frictional labour markets
… by a stationary growth economy with heterogeneous firms and frictional unemployment. The model extends the Coles and Mortensen (2016) framework in two directions: it introduces vintage effects and endogenous worker search effort. New start-up firms are created with a productivity …
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Essays on Firms' Behavior in International Trade with Vertical Specialization
… this anomalous finding is entirely driven by firms that engage only in export processing -- the activity of assembling tariff exempted imported inputs into final goods for resale in the foreign markets. We find that pure processing exporters are less productive than non-exporters, but other …
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Firm access to capital markets in Europe
… We control the cross-country differences of firms' size, business cycles and institutional backgrounds to check for the robustness of our estimator as possible instruments for the cost of external finance. The empirical results show that the concentrated banking sector in European countries …
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Essays in the macroeconomics of production sale
… on these measurement insights by embedding heterogeneous firms into a dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous entry, exit, and mergers. Merging firms combine their scale parameters ѱ, which alters both their cost structures and pricing incentives. In an unconstrained equilibrium …
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Essays in Heterogeneity, Irreversibility and Aggregate Fluctuations
… the linkages between investment decisions of heterogeneous firms, the industry structure, and the aggregate dynamic of the economy.</p><p>The hypothesis explored in this dissertation is that the dynamic of the industry structure, the patterns of selection of firms and investment within an …
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Essays in Trade and Uncertainty
Firms face uncertainty on many different dimensions: demand level, productivity and input prices, taxes and regulations. Furthermore, some argue that uncertainty is higher in recessions (cf. Bloom et al. (2012)) and one of the causes of the slow recovery during the recent Great Recession (cf. Stock …
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Four Essays on Applied Energy Economics and Policy
… sector. We propose a theoretical model with cost heterogeneous firms, for which price and quantity equilibria are obtained both with and without a capacity market. The consequences for consumers are assessed using three different measures: consumer surplus, probability of blackout and price …
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Product Differentiation in International Trade
… that includes quality differentiation among heterogeneous firms. The theory explicitly demonstrates how heterogeneity in a single exogenous parameter, productivity, can produce dispersion in product quality and price. The framework predicts that relatively productive firms will choose to …
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Three essays on labor market disparities and inequality
… as well as women's more frequent career breaks. Firms' actions matter too: firms' are less willing to hire workers with a higher likelihood of career breaks which leads to lower negotiated wages. Chapter 3 builds on the analysis in Chapter 2 and uses a structural model to decompose the labor …
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Essays in organizational economics
The first chapter examines the interaction of heterogeneous firms in a competitive market in which firms motivate their workers using relational incentive contracts. In the steady-state rational-expectations equilibrium, aggregate TFP is fully characterized by a weighted average of firm-specific …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… exchange rate risk. In their income statements, firms report such exchange rate gains and losses, signaling their exposure to currency risk. We focus on two countries, Japan and the United States, that exhibit a similar trade openness but two very different shares of foreign currency invoicing. …
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Essays on Dynamics of Exports, Innovation and Productivity
My dissertation discusses the dynamics of firms' exports, innovation and productivity growth in an open economy. More specifically, my empirical research finds that both exporting and innovation are important channels for industries and individual firms to promote their productivity. I then build a …
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Topics on firm heterogeneity and economic policy
… expansion choice (through product marketing) for firms to an otherwise standard monopolistic competition model. The marketing is modeled as a contest in which heterogeneous firms can shift the demand of the variety they produce, but also suffer from other firms engaging in the same activity. In …
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Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance
… overall productive physical assets used by US firms (from the asset side), and are important external financing sources for firms (from the liability side). However, they were treated as off-balance-sheet items before the 2019 lease accounting rule changes in ASC 842 – hence they are important …
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