firm's marginal production costs. We test the theory by exploiting the opening of a high-speed (Shinkansen) train line in … locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to search more and find better suppliers. This in turn drives down the … Japan which lowered the cost of passenger travel but left shipping costs unchanged. Using an exhaustive dataset on firms …

preference factors in order to separately identify risk preferences, information frictions, and perceived plan hassle costs. The … dimensions that they are typically assumed to understand, perceive high plan hassle costs, and make choices that depend on these …

will be affordable. In this paper, I present the facts about how much accountability costs. The facts are, fortunately …, highly knowable because costs show up both as expenditures on government budgets and as revenues on companies' (mainly test … makers') accounts. Moreover, it turns out that worrying about measurement error in the cost data is pointless. The costs of …

costs driven by changes in factor prices than to increases in marginal cost precipitated by expansions in output. We explore …

for the hypothesis of organizational forgetting, a more general learning model where unit costs are similarly dependent on …

effect on non-contractible quality. The model is applied to understanding the costs and benefits of prison privatization …