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Collier, Benjamin L. - 2016

We examine businesses' financial management of a rare, severe event using detailed firm-level data collected following Hurricane Sandy in the New York area. Credit played a prominent role in financing recovery; more negatively affected firms took on debt because of Sandy (38%) than received...

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Procrastination in the Workplace : Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office

Frakes, Michael D. - 2016

Despite much theoretical attention to the concept of procrastination and much exploration of this phenomenon in laboratory settings, there remain few empirical investigations into the practice of procrastination in real world contexts, especially in the workplace. In this paper, we attempt to...

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How Hybrid Working From Home Works Out

Bloom, Nicholas; Han, Ruobing; Liang, James - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Hybrid working from home (WFH), whereby employees work a mix of days at home and at work each week, has become dominant for graduate employees in the US. This paper evaluates a randomized control trial on 1612 engineers, marketing and finance employees of a large technology firm that allowed odd...

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Deadlines Versus Continuous Incentives : Evidence from the Patent Office

Frakes, Michael; Wasserman, Melissa F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

A quota system with an associated deadline may retain the possibility of worker procrastination and related deadline behaviors. A performance appraisal system based on continuous temporal incentives, on the other hand, has the potential to alleviate deadline effects but may lose some of the...

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Surviving the Fintech Disruption

Jiang, Wei; Tang, Yuehua; Xiao, Jiqiu; Yao, Wenxiong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper studies how demand for labor reacts to financial technology (fintech) shocks based on comprehensive databases of fintech patents and firm job postings in the U.S. during the past decade. We first develop a measure of fintech exposure at the occupation level by intersecting the textual...

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Has the U.S. Finance Industry Become Less Efficient? On the Theory and Measurement of Financial Intermediation

Philippon, Thomas - 2012

I provide a quantitative interpretation of financial intermediation in the U.S. over the past 130 years. Measuring separately the cost of intermediation and the production of financial services, I find that: (i) the quantity of intermediation varies a lot over time; (ii) intermediation is...

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Fund Flows and Income Risk of Fund Managers

Cen, Xiao; Dou, Winston Wei; Kogan, Leonid; Wu, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Investment fund managers make asset allocation decisions on behalf of a significant segment of US households. To elucidate the incentives they operate under, as well as the income and career risks they face, we construct a unique and novel dataset, which encompasses detailed information on the...

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The Growing Importance of Decision-Making on the Job

Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

demand for decision-making and explores the consequences for life-cycle earnings. Career earnings growth in the U.S. more … substantial share of this shift is explained by increased employment in decision-intensive occupations, which have longer and more … gradual periods of earnings growth. To understand these patterns, I develop a model that nests decision-making in a standard …

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A (Dynamic) Investigation of Stereotypes, Belief-Updating, and Behavior

Coffman, Katherine B.; Ugalde Araya, Paola; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

analyze the dynamic effects of feedback on beliefs about own performance and decision-making across two different domains …

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Who Protests, What Do They Protest, and Why?

Chenoweth, Erica; Hamilton, Barton Hughes; Lee, Hedwig; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine individuals' decisions to attend protests during the summer of 2020. Our analysis examines two simultaneous movements: Black Lives Matter along with protests calling for less stringent public health measures to combat the COVID-19 (e.g., for swifter reopening of businesses). Our...

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