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The information revolution currently underway has changed the economy in ways that are hard to measure using … conventional GDP procedures. The information available to consumers has increased dramatically as a result of the Internet and its … now has an unprecedented amount of information on which to base consumption choices, and the "free" nature of the …
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The importance of increments to an existing highway system depends upon their contributions to the accessibility provided by the existing network. Nearly 40 years ago, Mohring [1965] suggested this logic for planning optimal highway investment programs. He argued it could be implemented by...
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rely on housing price capitalization. It is a computational analog to Chetty's [2009] call for considering the measurement …
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In this paper we investigate the comparative properties of empirically-estimated monetary models of the U.S. economy. We make use of a new data base of models designed for such investigations. We focus on three representative models: the Christiano, Eichenbaum, Evans (2005) model, the Smets and...
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due to measurement error. We conclude that the evidence on the prevalence of small price changes is much too weak to be …
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This paper assesses different organizational forms in terms of their ability to generate information about investment … likely to be attractive when information about individual projects is soft' and cannot be credibly transmitted. Moreover …, holding fixed firm size, soft information also favors flatter organizations with fewer layers of management. In contrast …
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The distance between small firms and their lenders in the United States is increasing. Not only are firms choosing more distant lenders, they are also communicating with them in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate that they do not stem from small...
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This paper explores environments in which either the revelation or diffusion of information, or its incorporation into … methodology and for understanding the process by which stock prices incorporate information. Two environments are highlighted …. First, information is often not revealed in one announcement but rather through a process of gradual public revelation …
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Firms invest differentially in the intellectual human capital required to recognize, evaluate, and utilize technological breakthroughs occurring outside the firm. Such differential investment has been crucial in explaining which incumbent pharmaceutical firms have successfully transformed their...
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A model of interest rate movements in response to new information on the money stock is developed.The model, which …
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