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This innovative book analyses the geographical patterns in foreign direct investment flows by combining elements from the theory of international production and the theory of economic geography. It develops a model for explaining why foreign direct investment is attracted to certain locations....
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implications are tested in a comparative study of competitive performance in the EU, Japan and the USA. Typical mechanisms of …
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information aggregation. We derive the optimal degree of privacy/publicity and matching rate, then analyze how they depend on the … in the fundamental or the image-motivated component of average preferences), privacy should generally be greater than in …
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Statistical agencies have a dual mandate to provide accurate data and protect the privacy and confidentiality of data … subjects. These mandates are fundamentally at odds and therefore must be balanced: more accurate data reduces privacy, while … privacy protections introduce error that reduces accuracy. Balancing accuracy and privacy requires, among other things, that …
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In a data-driven world, two prominent research problems are record linkage and data privacy, among others. Record … the other hand, data privacy research seeks to balance the need to extract accurate insights from data with the imperative … to protect the privacy of the entities involved. Inevitably, data privacy issues arise in the context of record linkage …
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Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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This paper discusses the fundamental underpinnings and some implications of transaction cost regulation (TCR), a framework to analyze the interaction between governments and investors fundamentally, but not exclusively, in utility industries. TCR sees regulation as the governance structure of...
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Using a large data set that links individual Current Population Survey (CPS) records to employer-reported administrative data, we document substantial discrepancies in basic measures of employment status that persist even after controlling for known definitional differences between the two data...
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We develop a model of a firm whose production process requires it to start and nurture a relationship with its stakeholders. Because there are spillover benefits associated with being associated with a "winner," the perceptions of stakeholders and potential stakeholders can affect firm value....
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