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  • 15 Jul 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger & Andrew F. Newman
  • 20 Aug 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Spatial Agglomeration and Superstar Firms: Firm-level Patterns from Europe and US

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Maggie X. Chen, and Harald Fadinger
  • 08 Jan 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

Biases By: Zhang, Ting, and Max Bazerman Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.sagepub.com/refbooks/Book235986   Working Papers Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? Evidence from Trade Policy By: Alfaro, Laura,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29

superior economic performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-110.pdf Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries Authors:Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

externality and technology diffusion play a particularly important role in multinationals' offshore agglomeration. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1524857 Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? Evidence from Trade Policy Authors:Laura View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2009
  • Other Paper

Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries

By: Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Andrew F. Newman and Harald Fadinger
We examine how trade policy affects firms' organizational choices. We embed a model of firms' vertical integration decisions into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. In the model, integration decisions are driven by a trade-off... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Policy; Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Vertical Integration; Boundaries
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries

By: Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger and Andrew F. Newman
We study how trade policy affects firms' ownership structures. We embed an incomplete contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Policy; Vertical Integration; Business and Government Relations; Boundaries; Ownership; Mathematical Methods
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  • Article

You Can't Always Get What You Want: The Real Exchange Rate and Manufacturing Performance in a World of Global Value Chains

By: Laura Alfaro, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger and Yanping Liu
Real exchange rate devaluations are typically seen as a viable development strategy, but the effectiveness of the approach may vary over time and across countries. This column explores this issue by focusing on the microeconomics of firm-level responses to exchange... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing Performance; Real Exchange Rate; Global Value Chains; Economics; Production; Performance
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  • April 2023
  • Article

The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity

By: Laura Alfaro, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger and Yanping Liu
We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001-2010. We uncover the following stylized facts about regional variation of manufacturing firms'... View Details
Keywords: Real Exchange Rate; Firm Level Data; Innovation; Productivity; Exporting; Importing; Credit Constraints; Currency Exchange Rate; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity

By: Laura Alfaro, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger and Yanping Liu
We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts about regional variation of manufacturing firms'... View Details
Keywords: Real Exchange Rate; Firm Level Data; Innovation; Productivity; Exporting; Importing; Credit Constraints; Currency Exchange Rate; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity
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  • July 2016
  • Article

Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration?

By: Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger and Andrew F. Newman
What is the relationship between product prices and vertical integration? While the literature has focused on how integration affects prices, this paper provides evidence that prices can affect integration. Many theories in organizational economics and industrial... View Details
Keywords: Price; Vertical Integration; Product
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  • September 26, 2018
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Ownership and Power Structure: Together at Last

By: Laura Alfaro, Nicholas Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew Newman, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
Economists have largely ignored the deep interdependency between integration and delegation. This column describes a new theory of integration and delegation choices aimed at shedding light on how these distinct elements of organizational design interact. Contrary to... View Details
Keywords: Power; Organisational Design; Economics; Ownership; Organizational Design
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Economic Association (forthcoming). (Pre-published online May 11, 2023.) With Alfaro, Laura, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick... View Details
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

Laura, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—Little is known theoretically, and even less... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

limited quantity. The competition has no comparable model. Which price should the company choose? Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54489 Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation By: Alfaro, Laura,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • December 2, 2012
  • Article

Firm Organisation: What We Know and Why We Should Care

By: Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros and Andrew Newman
Keywords: Industrial Organization; International Trade; Firm Organization; Firms; Protectionism; Business Organization; Trade
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  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49883 forthcoming Review of Economic Studies Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? By: Alfaro, Laura, Paola Conconi, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

assets, but also suggest that differences in firms' information environments can mitigate information risk across the fair value designations. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1439851   Working PapersTrade Policy and Firm Boundaries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

consider supporting deposit insurance schemes and undertaking subsidised recapitalisations.   Working PapersTrade Policy and Firm Boundaries Authors:Laura Alfaro, Paola View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne