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I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Public economics group. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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Tag Archives: Productivity
Acquisitions, Productivity, and Profitability: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry
From Serguey Braguinsky, Atsushi Ohyama, Tetsuji Okazaki, Chad Syverson: We explore how changes in ownership and managerial control affect the productivity and profitability of producers. Using detailed operational, financial, and ownership data from the Japanese cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last … Continue reading
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Tagged Atsushi Ohyama, Chad Syverson, Productivity, Serguey Braguinsky, Tetsuji Okazaki
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Structural Transformation, the Mismeasurement of Productivity Growth, and the Cost Disease of Services
From Alywn Young: If workers self-select into industries based upon their relative productivity in different tasks, and comparative advantage is aligned with absolute advantage, then the average efficacy of a sector’ s workforce will be negatively correlated with its employment … Continue reading
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Tagged Alywn Young, Baumol's Cost Disease, Biased Productivity, Productivity, Services, Structural Change
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Inequality and Technological Change: The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
A very interesting paper from Anders Akerman, Ingvil Gaarder, Magne Mogstad: Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data with firm-level information on … Continue reading
Private Equity, Productivity, and Inequality
Sorry for the light posting – I have been traveling for job interviews. Here’s an interesting paper that I heard about recently. It shows that private equity buyouts bring productivity improvements and lower payrolls on average. Here is the full … Continue reading
The Decline of the U.S. Rust Belt: A Macroeconomic Analysis
From Simeon Alder, David Lagakos , Lee Ohanian: No region of the United States fared worse over the post-war period than the “Rust Belt,” the heavy manufacturing zone bordering the Great Lakes. We argue that a lack of competition in labor and output … Continue reading
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Tagged Competition, David Lagakos, Lee Ohanian, monopoly, Productivity, Rust Belt, Simeon Alder, unionization
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The Benefits of High Productivity
Higher productivity lowers effective labor costs and makes the US a more attractive place for businesses to locate. This idea is important to keep in mind when thinking about the President’s push for more FDI and (productivity enhancing) infrastructure investment. … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Location Decisions, Economic Geography, Productivity
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Technological Change through History: the View from 30,000 feet
Brad Delong has a an outstanding post on technological change. He categorizes how people add value and shows how technological change alters these categories. It’s interesting to think about his post and these issues in terms of a simple (classical) model and … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Delong, Incidence, inequality, larry summers, Productivity, Robots, Technological Change
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The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the U.S. Economy
From Lorenzo Caliendo, Fernando Parro, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, and Pierre-Daniel Sarte: We study the impact of regional and sectoral productivity changes on the U.S. economy. To that end, we consider an environment that captures the effects of interregional and intersectoral trade in propagating … Continue reading
Macroeconomic Implications of Agglomeration
From Morris Davis, Jonas Fisher, and Toni Whited: Cities exist because of the productivity gains that arise from clustering production and workers, a process called agglomeration. How important is agglomeration for aggregate growth? This paper constructs a dynamic stochastic general … Continue reading
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