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Capital Share Risk in U.S. Asset Pricing

Lettau, Martin - 2014

A single macroeconomic factor based on growth in the capital share of aggregate income exhibits significant explanatory power for expected returns across a range of equity characteristic portfolios and non-equity asset classes, with risk price estimates that are of the same sign and similar in...

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Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools

Morgan, Andrew J.; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...

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Leadership and Organizations

Alston, Eric C.; Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

specific contributions of leaders. Leadership is the ability to successfully manage transaction costs of an organization …To understand leadership, it is necessary to understand the purpose of an organization. Organizations are hierarchies … with leaders at the top. Why do we have leaders instead of an algorithm making decisions? The theory of the firm recognizes …

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The economics of school choice

Hoxby, Caroline M. (ed.) - 2003

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Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

Anton, Miguel; Ederer, Florian; Giné, Mireia; Schmalz, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We present a mechanism based on managerial incentives through which common ownership affects product market outcomes. Firm-level variation in common ownership causes variation in managerial incentives and productivity across firms, which leads to intra-industry and intra-firm cross-market...

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The Adoption of Offset Presses in the Daily Newspaper Industry in the United States

Genesove, David - 1999

This paper shows that the move to offset printing from letterpress in the U.S. daily newspaper publishing industry was determined, in part, by the structure of the local market. Although in monopoly markets, low circulation papers were quicker to adopt than high circulation papers, the ranking...

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Labor-Market Competition and Individual Preferences Over Immigration Policy

Scheve, Kenneth F. - 1999

This paper uses an individual-level data set to analyze the determinants of individual preferences over immigration policy in the United States. In particular, we test for a link from individual skill levels to stated immigration-policy preferences. Different economic models make contrasting...

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How the Changing Market Structure of U.S. Higher Education Explains College Tuition

Hoxby, Caroline M. - 1997

This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence demonstrating the ways in which" the changing market structure of American higher education from 1940 to the present affected" college prices and college quality. Over this period, the market for baccalaureate education" became significantly...

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Competition and Price Dispersion in the U.S. Airline Industry

Borenstein, Severin - 1991

This papers analyzes dispersion in the prices that an airline charges to different customers on the same route. Such variation in airlines fares is substantial: the expected absolute difference in fares between two of an airline's passengers on a route averages thirty-six percent of the...

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How Does State-Level Carbon Pricing in the United States Affect Industrial Competitiveness?

Casey, Brendan J. - 2020

Pricing carbon emissions from a jurisdiction could harm the competitiveness of local firms, causing the leakage of …

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