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Organizational Frictions and Increasing Returns to Automation : Lessons from AT&T in the Twentieth Century

Feigenbaum, James J.; Gross, Daniel P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

AT&T was the largest U.S. firm for most of the 20th century. Telephone operators once comprised over 50% of its workforce, but in the late 1910s it initiated a decades-long process of automating telephone operation with mechanical call switching--a technology first invented in the 1880s. We...

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Is the U.S. public corporation in trouble?

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We examine the current state of the U.S. public corporation and how it has evolved over the last 40 years. After falling by 50 percent since its peak in 1997, the number of public corporations is now smaller than 40 years ago. These corporations are now much larger and over the last twenty years...

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Federal Reserve Structure and the Production of Monetary Policy Ideas

Bordo, Michael D.; Prescott, Edward Simpson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We evaluate the decentralized structure of the Federal Reserve System as a mechanism for generating and processing new ideas on monetary policy over the 1960 - 2000 period. We document the introduction of monetarism, rational expectations, credibility, transparency, and other monetary policy...

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Green finance and sustainability : environmentally-aware business models and technologies

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"This book is devoted to examining a range of issues concerning green finance and sustainability covering sections on … emerging environmentally aware business models, regulation and standard development, green ICT for sustainability, green … for sustainability / John Bagby -- 3. Promoting technological environmental innovations / Jacqueline Lam, Peter Hills -- 4 …

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Exporting and Firm Performance : Evidence from a Randomized Trial

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We conduct a randomized experiment that generates exogenous variation in the access to foreign markets for rug producers in Egypt. Combined with detailed survey data, we causally identify the impact of exporting on firm performance. Treatment firms report 16-26 percent higher profits and exhibit...

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Supply chain sustainability and raw material management : concepts and processes

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Sustainability science for social, economic, and environmental development

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Cover Crops, Drought, Yield and Risk : an Analysis of U.S. Soybean Production

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Besides a variety of production and environmental benefits, cover cropping has been advocated as a mean to increase resilience to drought. We explored factors influencing farmer's adoption of cover crops and examined the effects of cover crops on soybean yield and its risk using USDA's 2018 ARMS...

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Management and Misallocation in Mexico

Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...

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