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Investing in Bank Lending Technology : IT Spending in Banking

He, Zhiguo; Jiang, Sheila; Xu, Douglas; Yin, Xiao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies the economics behind the investment in information technologies (IT) by U.S. commercial banks in the past decade. By linking banks' IT spending to their lending technologies, we analyze the distinctive natures of banks' dealings with information across various lending...

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Exhaustive or Exhausting? Evidence on Respondent Fatigue in Long Surveys

Jeong, Dahyeon; Aggarwal, Shilpa; Robinson, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Living standards measurement surveys require sustained attention for several hours. We quantify survey fatigue by randomizing the order of questions in 2-3 hour-long in-person surveys. An additional hour of survey time increases the probability that a respondent skips a question by 10-64%....

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Techies and Firm Level Productivity

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both … manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this effect goes beyond the …

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Acquisitions, Management, and Efficiency in Rwanda's Coffee Industry

Macchiavello, Rocco; Morjaria, Ameet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

acquired by a foreign firm. Our preferred interpretation - supported by detailed survey evidence that considers alternative …

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Firming up Price Inflation

Bunn, Philip; Anayi, Lena S.; Bloom, Nicholas; Mizen, Paul - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use data from a large panel survey of UK firms to analyze the economic drivers of price setting since the start of the Covid pandemic. Inflation responded asymmetrically to movements in demand. This helps to explain why inflation did not fall much during the negative initial pandemic demand...

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To Starve or to Stoke? : Understanding Whether Divestment vs. Investment Can Steer (Green) Innovation

Pless, Jacquelyn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

investors being socially-conscious and governing through "voice." This hinges upon understanding which firm strategies actually …

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Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts : Aggregate vs. Aggregated Inflation Expectations

Dietrich, Alexander M.; Knotek, Edward S.; Myrseth, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper introduces a novel measure of consumer inflation expectations: We elicit and combine inflation forecasts across categories of personal consumption expenditure to form an aggregated measure of inflation expectations. Drawing on nearly 60,000 respondents, our data comprise the early...

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Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being

Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...

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Inequality Within Countries is Falling : Underreporting-Robust Estimates of World Poverty, Inequality and the Global Distribution of Income

Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Household surveys suffer from persistent and growing underreporting. We propose a novel procedure to adjust reported survey incomes for underreporting by estimating a model of misreporting whose main parameter of interest is the elasticity of regional national accounts income to regional survey...

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The Independent Contractor Workforce : New Evidence On Its Size and Composition and Ways to Improve Its Measurement in Household Surveys

Abraham, Katharine G.; Hershbein, Brad; Houseman, Susan N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive, with household survey and administrative tax data often disagreeing on levels and trends. We carried out a series of focus groups to learn how self-employed independent contractors speak about their work....

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