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Corporate Flexibility in a Time of Crisis
Barry, John W.; Campello, Murillo; Graham, John R.; Ma, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use the COVID shock to study the direct and interactive effects of several forms of corporate flexibility on short- and long-term real business plans. We find that i) workplace flexibility, namely the ability for employees to work remotely, plays a central role in determining firms'...
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Production, Trade, and Cross-Border Data Flows
Chang, Qing; Cong, Lin William; Liyong, Wang; Zhang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We build a two-country general equilibrium model to analyze the effects of cross-border data flows and pre-existing development gaps in data economies on each country's production and international trade. Raw data as byproducts of consumption can be transformed into various types of working data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322803
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The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Bernstein, Shai - 2009
This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at home when domestic equity prices are higher,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463787
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Business Strategy and the Management of Firms
Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2015
Business strategy can be defined as a firm's plan to generate economic profits based on lower cost, better quality, or new products. The analysis of business strategy is thus at the intersection of market competition and a firm's efforts to secure persistently superior performance via...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457820
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Telemigration and Development : On the Offshorability of Teleworkable Jobs
Baldwin, Richard E.; Dingel, Jonathan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has introduced huge numbers of employers and employees to remote work. How many of these newly remote jobs will go overseas? We offer a rough quantification based on two observations: 1) offshore work is trade in services, and 2) the number of telemigrants is the volume of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660065
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Time Savings When Working from Home
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average daily time savings when working from home is 72 minutes in our sample. We estimate that work from home saved about two hours per week per worker in 2021 and 2022, and that it will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537760
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Information Production and Capital Allocation : Decentralized vs. Hierarchical Firms
Stein, Jeremy C. - 2000
costlessly hardened' and passed along within the hierarchy. As a concrete application of the theory, the paper discusses the …, this is exactly what the theory would lead one to expect …
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Organization and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy
Garicano, Luis - 2005
We present a theory of the organization of work in an economy where knowledge is an essential input in production: a … may produce on their own or in organizations. Our theory generates an assignment of workers to positions, a wage structure … referral markets. We use our theory to study the impact of information and communication technology, and contrast its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467222
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From Sectoral to Functional Urban Specialization
Duranton, Gilles - 2002
Striking evidence is presented of a previously unremarked transformation of urban structure from mainly sectoral to mainly functional specialization. We offer an explanation showing that this transformation is inextricably interrelated with changes in firms' organization. A greater variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469599
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An Empirical Framework for Testing Theories About Complimentarity in Organizational Design
Athey, Susan - 1998
This paper studies alternative empirical strategies for estimating the effects of organization design practices on performance, as well as the factors which determine organizational design, in a cross-section of firms. Our economic model is based on a firm where multiple organizational design...
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