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Demand-driven Technical Change and Productivity Growth: Theory and Evidence from the Energy Policy Act (2020)
Journal Article
Impullitti, G., Kneller, R., & McGowan, D. (2020). Demand-driven Technical Change and Productivity Growth: Theory and Evidence from the Energy Policy Act. Journal of Industrial Economics, 68(2), 328-363. https://doi.org/10.1111/joie.12231

We present novel evidence on the effect of market size on technology adoption and productivity. Our tests exploit a natural experiment in the US corn industry where changes to national energy policy created exogenous increases in demand. Difference-i... Read More about Demand-driven Technical Change and Productivity Growth: Theory and Evidence from the Energy Policy Act.

Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity: Evidence from China (2020)
Journal Article
Defever, F., Imbruno, M., & Kneller, R. (2020). Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity: Evidence from China. Journal of International Economics, 126, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2020.103329

We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on fi... Read More about Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity: Evidence from China.

Energy endowments and the location of manufacturing firms (2020)
Journal Article
Manderson, E. J., & Kneller, R. (2020). Energy endowments and the location of manufacturing firms. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 101, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2020.102301

This paper provides empirical evidence on whether individual firms choose to structure their production globally to exploit international differences in energy resources and prices. We use the US shale gas revolution as a quasi-natural experiment to... Read More about Energy endowments and the location of manufacturing firms.