Firm-level upgrading in developing countries

E Verhoogen - Journal of Economic Literature, 2023 - aeaweb.org
In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies
and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be …

The arrival of fast internet and employment in Africa

J Hjort, J Poulsen - American Economic Review, 2019 - aeaweb.org
To show how fast Internet affects employment in Africa, we exploit the gradual arrival of
submarine Internet cables on the coast and maps of the terrestrial cable network. Robust …

[PDF][PDF] 制造业金融化, 政府控制与技术创新

谢家智, 王文涛, 江源 - 经济学动态, 2014 - whzhz.jhun.edu.cn
内容提要: 制造业日益显现的金融投资倾向和行为, 深刻影响公司的经营决策与技术创新能力.
制造业过度金融化将加剧“去工业化” 和资产泡沫化矛盾, 削弱制造业发展基础 …

What you export matters

R Hausmann, J Hwang, D Rodrik - Journal of economic growth, 2007 - Springer
When local cost discovery generates knowledge spillovers, specialization patterns become
partly indeterminate and the mix of goods that a country produces may have important …

Trade, quality upgrading, and wage inequality in the Mexican manufacturing sector

EA Verhoogen - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008 - academic.oup.com
This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in developing
countries—the quality-upgrading mechanism—and investigates its empirical implications in …

Distributional effects of globalization in developing countries

PK Goldberg, N Pavcnik - Journal of economic Literature, 2007 - aeaweb.org
The authors discuss recent empirical research on how globalization has affected income
inequality in developing countries. They begin with a discussion of conceptual issues …

Trade liberalization and firm productivity: The case of India

P Topalova, A Khandelwal - Review of economics and statistics, 2011 - direct.mit.edu
This paper exploits India's rapid, comprehensive, and externally imposed trade reform to
establish a causal link between changes in tariffs and firm productivity. Pro-competitive …

The effects of entry on incumbent innovation and productivity

P Aghion, R Blundell, R Griffith, P Howitt… - The review of economics …, 2009 - direct.mit.edu
How does firm entry affect innovation incentives in incumbent firms? Microdata suggest that
there is heterogeneity across industries. Specifically, incumbent productivity growth and …

The unequal effects of liberalization: Evidence from dismantling the License Raj in India

P Aghion, R Burgess, SJ Redding… - American Economic …, 2008 - aeaweb.org
We study whether the effects on registered manufacturing output of dismantling the License
Raj—a system of central controls regulating entry and production activity in this sector—vary …

Innovation by entrants and incumbents

D Acemoglu, D Cao - Journal of Economic Theory, 2015 - Elsevier
We extend the basic Schumpeterian endogenous growth model by allowing incumbents to
undertake innovations to improve their products, while entrants engage in more “radical” …