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Nakamura, Emi - 2008

This paper studies how prices comove across products, firms and locations to gauge the relative importance of retailer …

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The Effect of Price Advertising and Prices : Evidence in the Wake of 44 Liquormart

Milyo, Jeffrey - 1998

The world's population is living longer but retiring earlier, and vast numbers of adults now spend as much as 1/3 of their lifetimes relying on public and private retirement benefits. Consequently, labor economists are interested in the forces driving retirement behavior, seeking to understand...

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Courts and Relational Contracts

Johnson, Simon - 2001

contracts. Belief in the effectiveness of courts has a significant positive effect on the level of trust shown in new …

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Microequity and Mutuality : Experimental Evidence on Credit with Performance-Contingent Repayment

Cordaro, Francesco; Fafchamps, Marcel; Mayer, Colin P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We conduct the first field experiment of a performance-contingent microfinance contract. A large food multinational … Kenya, we compare asset financing under a traditional debt contract to three alternatives: (i) a novel equity-like financing … contract, (ii) a hybrid debt-equity contract, and (iii) an index-insurance financing contract. Experimental results reveal …

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The Industrial Revolution in Services

Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2019

The rise in national industry concentration in the US between 1977 and 2013 is driven by a new industrial revolution in three broad non-traded sectors: services, retail, and wholesale. Sectors where national concentration is rising have increased their share of employment, and the expansion is...

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Wholesalers and Retailers in U.S. Trade (Long Version)

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2010

We combine data on individual trade transactions from U.S. customs records with comprehensive information on firms' employment from the Census Bureau's business register to examine wholesalers and retailers in U.S. exports and imports. Exporters and importers with 100 percent employment in...

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Wealth Transfers from Implementing Real-Time Retail Electricity Pricing

Borenstein, Severin - 2005

Adoption of real-time electricity pricing -- retail prices that vary hourly to reflect changing wholesale prices -- removes existing cross-subsidies to those customers that consume disproportionately more when wholesale prices are highest. If their losses are substantial, these customers are...

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Regulation, Distribution Efficiency, and Retail Density

Flath, David - 2003

After outlining characteristics of Japan's distribution sector, a comprehensive international comparison of it to those of other nations is presented and analyzed for underlying differences. This leads to an explanation of Japan's retail store density, which is then related to the structure of...

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Not a Typical Firm : The Joint Dynamics of Firms, Labor Shares, and Capital–Labor Substitution

Hubmer, Joachim; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The decline in the U.S. labor share is far from uniform across firms. While the aggregate labor share has declined, especially in manufacturing, retail, and wholesale, the labor share of a typical firm in these industries has risen. This paper studies the dynamics of the substitution of capital...

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Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act : A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950

Costa, Dora L. - 1998

I examine the impact of the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards on weekly hours worked between 1938 and 1950 by comparing workers in wholesale trade, a sector which was covered by the Act, with those in retail trade, a sector which was not. I find that the Act reduced hours worked,...

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