This paper estimates the impact of technology sophistication pre-COVID-19 on the performance of firms during the early stages of the pandemic. A unique data covering firms from Brazil, Senegal, and Vietnam is exploited using a treatment effect mediation framework to decompose the results into a direct and an indirect effect. Increasing pre-pandemic technology sophistication by one standard deviation is associated with 3.8pp higher sales. Both effects...
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2022/01/01
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报告
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173397
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2022/07/01
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Disclosed
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NBER Working Paper Series : Technology and Resilience