Replication data for: Reallocation and Technology: Evidence from the US Steel Industry

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Creator
- Collard-Wexler, Allan
- De Loecker, Jan
Publication Date
2015-01-01
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Abstract
We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel—the minimill—on industry-wide productivity in the US steel industry, using unique plant-level data between 1963 and 2002. The sharp increase in the industry's productivity is linked to this new technology through two distinct mechanisms: (i) the mere displacement of the older technology (vertically integrated producers) was responsible for a third of the increase in the industry's productivity, and (ii) increased competition, due the minimill expansion, drove a productivity resurgence at the surviving vertical integrated producers and, consequently, the productivity of the industry as a whole. (JEL D24, L13, L23, L61, M11, O31, O33)
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DOI: 10.1257/aer.20130090 (Text)
Publications
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Collard-Wexler, Allan, and Jan De Loecker. “Reallocation and Technology: Evidence from the US Steel Industry.” American Economic Review 105, no. 1 (January 2015): 131–71. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20130090.
- ID: 10.1257/aer.20130090 (DOI)
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