The Industrial Revolution in Services

Abstract

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Declining Industrial Disruption

“…Rinz (2018),Hsieh and Rossi-Hansberg (2019).Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3682745…”

Upstream, Downstream: Diffusion and Impacts of the Universal Product Code

“…Barcodes were a key component in a broad set of innovations that dramatically lowered the cost of managing inventory in retail supply chains. Scholars have suggested that this had far-reaching implications, including the rise of the big-box format (e.g., Holmes, 2001;Dunlop, 2001) and subsequent increases in industry concentration (e.g., Basker, Klimek, and Van, 2012;Hsieh and Rossi-Hansberg, 2019). This paper is the first to measure the effects of UPC adoption on upstream employment, revenue, product innovation, and industry-level imports, providing a natural complement to the literature on retail productivity (e.g., Foster, Haltiwanger, and Krizan, 2006;Basker, 2012) and a new addition to the empirical literature on the effects of industry standards.…”

Upstream, Downstream: Diffusion and Impacts of the Universal Product Code

“…Barcodes were a key component in a broad set of innovations that dramatically lowered the cost of managing inventory in retail supply chains. Scholars have suggested that this had far-reaching implications, including the rise of the big-box format (e.g., Holmes, 2001;Dunlop, 2001) and subsequent increases in industry concentration (e.g., Basker, Klimek, and Van, 2012;Hsieh and Rossi-Hansberg, 2019). This paper is the first to measure the effects of UPC adoption on upstream employment, revenue, product innovation, and industry-level imports, providing a natural complement to the literature on retail productivity (e.g., Foster, Haltiwanger, and Krizan, 2006;Basker, 2012) and a new addition to the empirical literature on the effects of industry standards.…”