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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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Business Strategy and the Management of Firms
Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2015
secure persistently superior performance via investments in better management and organization. We empirically analyze the … management is driven by two key organizational trade-offs: employee initiative vs. coordination as well as exploration of novel …
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Private Precaution and Public Restrictions : What Drives Social Distancing and Industry Foot Traffic in the COVID-19 Era?
Cronin, Christopher J. - 2020
We examine the role of state and local policies to encourage social distancing, including stay at home orders, public school closures, and restrictions on restaurants, entertainment, and large social gatherings. Outcomes come from cell phone records and include foot traffic in six industries...
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A Structural Approach to Market Definition With an Application to the Hospital Industry
Gaynor, Martin - 2011
Market definition is essential to merger analysis. Because no standard approach to market definition exists, opposing parties in antitrust cases often disagree about the extent of the market. These differences have been particularly relevant in the hospital industry, where the courts have denied...
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Hospitals As Hotels : The Role of Patient Amenities in Hospital Demand
Goldman, Dana - 2008
Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand. We use a marketing survey to measure amenities at hospitals in greater Los Angeles and analyze the choice behavior of Medicare pneumonia patients in this market. We find that...
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The Median Voter and the Median Consumer : Local Private Goods and Residential Sorting
Waldfogel, Joel - 2006
When a product's product provision entails fixed costs, it will be made available only if a sufficient number of people want it. Some products are produced and consumed locally, so that provision requires not only a large group favoring the product but a large number nearby. Just as one has an...
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Subsidies and Structure : The Lasting Impact of the Hill-Burton Program on the Hospital Industry
Chung, Andrea Park - 2016
The hospital industry is one of the most important industries in the U.S., and industry structure can have profound effects on the functioning of markets. Using county-level panel data, we study the effect of public subsidies from the Hospital Survey and Construction Act of 1946, known as the...
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Do Hospitals Cross Subsidize?
David, Guy - 2011
Cross-subsidies are often considered the principal mechanism through which hospitals provide unprofitable care. Yet, hospitals' reliance on and extent of cross-subsidization are difficult to establish. We exploit entry by cardiac specialty hospitals as an exogenous shock to incumbent hospitals'...
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Human Resource Management and Performance in the Service Sector : The Case of Bank Branches
Bartel, Ann P. - 2000
the human resource management environment and establishment performance to the service sector, specifically the branch … operations of a large bank. Case studies of several branches were used to understand how and why the human resource management …-specific characteristics, the human resource management environment at the branch, as measured by the performance evaluation and feedback …
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Human Capital Reallocation Across Firms : Evidence from Idiosyncratic Shocks
Gilje, Erik P.; Taillard, Jerôme P.; Zeng, Linghang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study human capital reallocation following firm-specific idiosyncratic shocks. Theory offers diverging predictions as to whether human capital gets reallocated to its most productive use following these shocks. To empirically test these predictions, we focus on relegation battles in the...
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