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distribution into three main components: efficiency, amenities, and frictions. Higher efficiency and better amenities lead to … MSAs in the United States, we parametrize the model and empirically estimate efficiency, amenities and frictions …
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development. Evidence from the failed Industrial Revolution in 14th-century China illustrates the empirical relevance of the …
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Productivity growth in the United States was considerably faster during 2000-03 than in the boom years of 1995-2000. This ebullient productivity performance raises numerous questions about its interpretation and its implications for the future, and these are stated here in the form of five...
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Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …, we find that (iv) efficiency increases when a majority owner must deal with minority shareholders and that (v) domestic …
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When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise if workers do not know where other workers apply to (this affects network creation) and firms do not know which candidates other firms consider (this affects network clearing). We show that those frictions and the...
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Why were people so unprepared for the global financial crisis, the European debt crisis, and the Fukushima nuclear accident? To address this question, we study a model in which agents make state-contingent plans - think about actions in different contingencies - subject to the constraint that...
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shows that taxpayers are the main losers as subsidies are still needed. There are also serious efficiency-equity trade …
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A 'folk theorem' originating, among others, in the work of Stiglitz maintains that competitive equilibria are always or 'generically' inefficient (unless contracts directly specify consumption levels as in Prescott and Townsend, thus bypassing trading in anonymous markets). This paper critically...
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to children. Using the efficiency concepts proposed in Golosov, Jones and Tertilt (2007), we find that whenever the … standard OLG models with exogenous fertility and Millian efficiency in models with endogenous fertility. In particular, we show … that the usual conditions for efficiency are no longer sufficient. Further, we analyze several government policies in this …
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