size of stock adjustment decisions, and find broad support for theoretical predictions in formal selection …

innovation activities. The selection of high-skill managers is more important for innovation activities. As the economy … approaches the technology frontier, selection becomes more important. As a result, countries at early stages of development … investments, but little selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to an innovation-based strategy with …

Theory suggests that people facing higher uninsurable background risk buy more insurance against other risks that are … casualty insurance increases with earnings uncertainty. This finding is consistent with consumer preferences being …

The full insurance hypothesis states that shocks to the firm's performance do not affect workers' compensation. In … principal-agent models with moral hazard, firms trade off insurance and incentives to induce workers to supply the optimal level … overall earnings variability, the remainder originating in idiosyncratic shocks. Finally, we show that the amount of insurance …

insurance and preferences are nonseparable. This result appears to support the conclusion of the above mentioned folk theorem …

, equilibrium wage dispersion is necessary for the economy to approximate efficiency. Without wage dispersion, workers do not search …