Jagadeesh Sivadasan

Technical Reports

• (with Natarajan Balasubramanian) NBER Patent Data-BR bridge -- User Guide & Technical Documentation

Publications

• (with Natarajan Balasubramanian, Ravi Dharwadkar and Charlotte Ren) “How do US Firms Grow? New Evidence from a Growth Decomposition” ( accepted at Strategic Management Journal, May 2024)  

• (with Natarajan Balasubramanian and Wenjian Xu) How Do Frictions That Impede Transfer of Business Ownership Affect Business Entry and Exit? Evidence from Product Line Exception Adoptions,  accepted at Strategic Management Journal, Jan 2024. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smj.3584 

• (with Yao Lu, Xinzheng Shi and Zhufeng Xu) How Does Improvement in Commuting Affect Employees? Evidence from a Natural Experiment. The Review of Economics and Statistics 2024; 106 (1): 53–67. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01138 

  • • • Online Appendix

• (with Francine Lafontaine) The Recent Evolution of Physical Retail Markets: Online Retailing, Big Box Stores, and the Rise of Restaurants, in Andrews, Michael J., Aaron Chatterji, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, eds. The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth. University of Chicago Press, 2022.

• (with Wenjian Xu) "Missing Women in India: Gender-Specific Effects of Early Life Rainfall Shocks", World Development, Volume 148, December 2021.  

  • • Older SSRN version is here.

• (with Natarajan Balasubramanian, Jin Woo Chang, Mariko Sakakibara, and Evan Starr) "Locked In? Noncompete Enforceability and the Mobility and Earnings of High-Tech Workers",  Journal of Human Resources, May 2020, 1218-9931R1; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.monopsony.1218-9931R1.

  • • • Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management

      • Distinguished Paper Award in The Business Policy and Strategy Division, AOM Meeting 2016 (Anaheim California)

      • Media/Policy cites: White House Report (May 2016), US Dept of Treasury (Mar 2016), WSJ (May2019), FTC Proposed ban on Non-Compete (Jan 2023), US GAO (May 2023) 

• (with Natarajan Balasubramanian and Jeongsik Lee) Deadlines, Work Flows, Work Quality, and Task Sorting, Management Science 2018 64(4):1804-1824. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2663.

  • • • Online Appendix (Including data from surveys of patent attorneys and inventors)

• (with Sutirtha Bagchi) Barriers to Entry and Competitive Behavior: Evidence from Reforms of Cable Franchising Regulations, Journal of Industrial Economics, September 2017, 65(3), 510-558.

• (with Ryan Monarch and Jooyoun Park) Domestic Gains from Offshoring? Evidence from TAA-linked U.S. Microdata, Journal of International Economics, March 2017, Vol 105, pp. 150 173.

• (with Margaret Levenstein and Valerie Suslow) The Effect of Competition on Trade Patterns:  Evidence from the Collapse of International Cartels, International Journal of Industrial Organization, March 2015, Vol 39, pp. 56-70

• (with Amy Dittmar and Sreedhar Bharath) Do Going-Private Transactions Affect Plant Productivity and Investment?  Review of Financial Studies, July 2014 27 (7): 1929-1976. (Lead Article)

  • • • An older working paper version

      • Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Forum blog post

• (with Juan Carlos Hallak) Product and Process Productivity: Implications for Quality choice and Conditional Exporter Premia, Journal of International Economics, 91(1), pp. 53-67, September 2013.

  • • • Significantly revised from  older NBER working paper (14928) version which is available here

• (with Amil Petrin)  Estimating Lost Output from Allocative Inefficiency, with Application to Chile and Firing Costs, The Review of Economics and Statistics, March 2013, Vol. 95, No 1, 286-301.

  • • • This is significantly revised from an older/different NBER working paper version available here

      • Stata code for production function and gap estimates is available here

• (with Natarajan Balasubramanian) What Happens When Firms Patent?  New Evidence from US Manufacturing Census Data, The Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2011, Vol. 93, No. 1: 126 146.

  • • • Supplementary appendix 

• (with Bo Becker) The Effect of Financial Development on the Investment-Cash Flow Relationship: Cross-country Evidence from Europe The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 10 : Iss. 1 (Advances), Article 43 (2010).  

• Barriers to Competition and Productivity: Evidence from India, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 9 : Iss. 1 (Advances), Article 42 (2009). [Finalist for the 2009 Arrow Prize]

  • • • A working paper version is available here.

      • Supplementary Appendix

      • Data and setup files

      • Note on the economic regulatory regime in India: 1947 to 1998 

• (with Natarajan Balasubramanian) Capital Resalability, Productivity Dispersion and Market Structure,  The Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume: 91   Issue: 3   August 2009,  Pages: 547-557

  • • • An older working  paper version is available here: Capital Liquidity, Productivity Dispersion and Market Structure.

      • Data on our Capital Resalability/Capital Liquidity/ Non-sunkenness measure is available here 

• (with Francine Lafontaine) Do Labor Market Rigidities have Microeconomic Effects? Evidence from Within the Firm, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol.1, No. 2, April 2009, Pages 88-127

  • • • Web appendix of additional results

      • Stata value function iteration and simulation code for table 2

      • An non-gated older working paper version is here

      • Powerpoint slides on the paper are here 

• (with Francine Lafontaine) Within-firm Labor Productivity across Countries: A Case Study, in International Differences in the Business Practices and Productivity of Firms, Richard Freeman and Katherine Shaw, eds, NBER (2009). 

• (with Joel Slemrod) Tax Law Changes, Income Shifting and Measured Wage Inequality: Evidence from India,  Journal of Public Economics Vol. 92, Issues 10-11, October 2008, Pages 2199-2224

Other Papers/Notes/Code

• The Social Impact of Profit-Maximizing Firms (A note, joint with Paul Clyde, Aneel Karnani, Puneet Manchanda, and M.P. Narayanan)

• Code to implement Ackerberg-Caves-Fraser (2006) value added production function