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A Synthetic Model of Disruption and Experimentation

Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper examines how a firm's choice of the type of experiment impacts on its potential exploitation of new technological opportunities. It does so in the context of the failure of successful firms (or disruption) where the literature has informally suggested that firms undertake errors in...

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Patent Trolls : Evidence from Targeted Firms

Cohen, Lauren - 2014

ability to defend themselves against litigation. We find that NPE litigation has a real negative impact on innovation at … innovation in the industries in which they are most prevalent …

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To Starve or to Stoke? : Understanding Whether Divestment vs. Investment Can Steer (Green) Innovation

Pless, Jacquelyn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

divestment to combat climate change. Will it work? This chapter explores whether divestment might induce green innovation, a … critical component of transitioning to a cleaner economy. Divestment could theoretically steer innovation by increasing the … investment opportunities. I argue that continuing to invest in dirty industries could drive green innovation conditional on …

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Shared capitalism at work : employee ownership, profit and gain sharing, and broad-based stock options

Kruse, Douglas L. (contributor); … - 2010

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Enterprising America : businesses, banks, and credit markets in historical perspective

Collins, William J. (contributor); … - 2015

Introduction / William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo -- Business organization and internal governance. Revisiting American exceptionalism: democracy and the regulation of corporate governance: the case of nineteenth-century Pennsylvania in comparative context / Naomi R. Lamoreaux -- Corporate...

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Does "Grease Money" Speed Up the Wheels of Commerce?

Kaufmann, Daniel - 1999

In an environment in which bureaucratic burden and delay are exogenous, an individual firm may find bribes helpful to reduce the effective red tape it faces. The efficient grease' hypothesis asserts therefore that corruption can improve economic efficiency and that fighting bribery would be...

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Firms' Inflation Expectations : New Evidence from France

Savignac, Frédérique; Gautier, Erwan; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using a new survey of firms' inflation expectations in France, we provide novel evidence about the measurement and formation of inflation expectations on the part of firms. First, French firms report inflation expectations with a smaller, but still positive, bias than households and display less...

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Spillover Effects from Voluntary Employer Minimum Wages

Derenoncourt, Ellora; Noelke, Clemens; Weil, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Low unionization rates, a falling real federal minimum wage, and outsourcing have hampered wage growth in the low-wage sector in the US. In recent years, a number of private employers have opted to institute or raise company-wide minimum wages for their employees, sometimes in response to public...

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The Anatomy of Cyber Risk

Jamilov, Rustam; Rey, Hélène; Tahoun, Ahmed - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We construct novel text-based measures of firm-level cyber risk exposure based on quarterly earnings calls of 12,000+ firms from 85 countries over 20+ years. We categorize each cyber-related discussion into topics that capture sentiment, monetary loss, country names, etc. We document new facts...

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Macro News and Micro News : Complements or Substitutes?

Hirshleifer, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study how the arrival of macro-news affects the stock market's ability to incorporate the information in firm-level earnings announcements. Existing theories suggest that macro and firm-level earnings news are attention substitutes; macro-news announcements crowd out firm-level attention,...

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