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Organizational Frictions and Increasing Returns to Automation : Lessons from AT&T in the Twentieth Century

Feigenbaum, James J.; Gross, Daniel P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

AT&T was the largest U.S. firm for most of the 20th century. Telephone operators once comprised over 50% of its workforce, but in the late 1910s it initiated a decades-long process of automating telephone operation with mechanical call switching--a technology first invented in the 1880s. We...

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Is the U.S. public corporation in trouble?

Kahle, Kathleen - 2016

We examine the current state of the U.S. public corporation and how it has evolved over the last 40 years. After falling by 50 percent since its peak in 1997, the number of public corporations is now smaller than 40 years ago. These corporations are now much larger and over the last twenty years...

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Federal Reserve Structure and the Production of Monetary Policy Ideas

Bordo, Michael D.; Prescott, Edward Simpson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We evaluate the decentralized structure of the Federal Reserve System as a mechanism for generating and processing new ideas on monetary policy over the 1960 - 2000 period. We document the introduction of monetarism, rational expectations, credibility, transparency, and other monetary policy...

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The industrial organization and regulation of the securities industry

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Coordination and information : historical perspectives on the organization of enterprise

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (ed.); Raff, Daniel M. G. (contributor) - 1995

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Leadership and Organizations

Alston, Eric C.; Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

To understand leadership, it is necessary to understand the purpose of an organization. Organizations are hierarchies … specific contributions of leaders. Leadership is the ability to successfully manage transaction costs of an organization … within organizations with relatively lower scope or scale of purpose because of the way in which decision rights tend to be …

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Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools

Morgan, Andrew J.; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...

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The Economic History of the <i>American Economic Review</i> : A Century's Explosion of Economics Research

Margo, Robert A. - 2010

Written in celebration of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the <i>American Economic Review</i> (February 2011), this paper recounts the history of the journal. The recounting has an analytic core that sees the American Economic Association as an organization supplying goods and services to its...

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Corporate Ownership in France : The Importance of History

Murphy, Antoin E. - 2004

This paper attempts to show the importance of history in influencing the structure of corporate ownership in France. The strong concentration of family ownership in France is traced to historical weaknesses in the money and capital markets that forced families to have recourse to self-financing....

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