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This paper studies the implications of procyclical capital utilization rates for inference regarding cyclical movements in labor productivity and the degree of returns to scale. We organize our investigation around five questions that we study using a measure of capital services based on...
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Allowing for three labor market settings (perfect competition or right-to-manage bargaining, efficient bargaining and monopsony), this paper relies on two extensions of Hallʼs econometric framework for estimating simultaneously price-cost margins and scale economies. Using an unbalanced panel...
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Nearly half of all transactions in the $5 trillion market for manufactured goods in the United States were intermediated by wholesalers in 2012, up from 32 percent in 1992. Seventy percent of this increase is due to the growth of "superstar" firms - the largest one percent of wholesalers....
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frictions, such as taxicabs, trucks and bulk shipping. We illustrate the impact of two externalities: the well-known thin …/thick market externalities and what we call pooling externalities. We characterize analytically the conditions for efficiency, show …
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types of pecuniary externalities: distributive externalities that arise from incomplete insurance markets and collateral … externalities that arise from price-dependent financial constraints. For both types of externalities, we identify three sufficient … pecuniary externalities. We demonstrate how to employ our framework in a number of applications. Whereas collateral …
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externalities. First, an undercapitalized country borrows too much since each firm does not internalize that an increase in …
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providing new evidence helpful for discriminating between different types of externalities. We investigate four-digit level … most important factor in the transmission of externalities. This suggests that transactions externalities accruing … primarily to the seller, and/or activity-driven demand externalities are significant for explaining the short-run behavior of …
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This paper develops a method for joint estimation of both the degree of internal returns to scale and the extent of external economies. We apply the method in estimating returns to scale indexes for U.S. manufacturing industries at the two-digit level. Overall, we find that only three of the...
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Global and local methods are widely used in international macroeconomics to analyze incomplete-markets models. We study solutions for an endowment economy, an RBC model and a Sudden Stops model with an occasionally binding credit constraint. First-order, second-order, risky steady state and...
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We build a minimalist model of the macroeconomics of a pandemic, with two essential components. The first is productivity-related: if the virus forces firms to shed labor beyond a certain threshold, productivity suffers. The second component is a credit market imperfection: because lenders...
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