Showing 1 - 10 of 10
This paper reviews evidence that life-cycle saving became the norm in nineteenth-century America, with a consequent fall in fertility and rise in the rate of capital formation, and considers whether a similar transition to life-cycle saving can be observed in nineteenth-century Britain. Although...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504549
The outbreak of rural unionism in the early 1870s and its subsequent collapse is a well-known milestone in labour history. It was one of the earliest attempts to raise wages among unskilled labourers through unionism. There has been much conjecture but little systematic analysis of its effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005281304
framework jointly predicts procyclical product variety and procyclical profits even for preference specifications that imply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293662
investigate how different types of fiscal policy affect profits and, as a result, investment. We find a sizeable negative effect … negative effects on profits, but, interestingly, the effects of government spending on investment are larger than the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791207
cost margins, industry wide profits or concentration. All parameterizations of competition, considered here, have two … features in common. First, the reallocation effect: a rise in competition raises the profits of a firm relative to the profits … of a less efficient firm. Second, a rise in competition reduces the profits of the least efficient firm active in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791340
We examine the returns from owning cows and buffaloes in rural India. We estimate that when valuing labor at market wages, households earn large, negative average returns from holding cows and buffaloes, at negative 64% and negative 39% respectively. This puzzle is mostly explained if we value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083843
We introduce a new measure of competition: the elasticity of a firm's profits with respect to its cost level. A higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661776
scientists respond both to cash royalties and to royalties used to support their research labs, suggesting both pecuniary and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662368
involving a royalty (or wholesale price) and a fee when each upstream firm contracts with multiple downstream firms. Royalties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067481
In many bilateral transactions, the seller fears being underpaid because its outside option is better known to the buyer. We rationalize a variety of observed contracts as solutions to such smart buyer problems. The key to these solutions is to grant the seller upside participation. In contrast,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084180