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We present a theory linking political and social trust to explain trust erosion in modern societies. Individuals …
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In this paper, we develop a network perspective on the welfare gains from trade in today’s internationally fragmented supply chains. Towards this end, we study a Ricardian trade model featuring trade in final and intermediate products, and introduce a novel comparative statics approach to...
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The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network. We propose a simplistic re-interpretation of the classical Krugman (1980) model that accounts for surprisingly many of the empirical regularities. This re-interpretation relies...
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In this paper, we propose a novel approach to the study of international trade that leads to a measure of country openness that is quite different from the various alternatives proposed by the received literature. In contrast to these, our measure does not use indicators of aggregate trade...
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empirical tests, motivated by a simple theory, demonstrate that low-liquidity firms amplified its transmission …
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This paper studies structural change in production networks for intermediate inputs (input-output network) and new capital (investment network). For each network, we document a declining fraction of production by goods sectors and a rising fraction of production by services sectors. We develop a...
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This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product …
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I show how changes in competition affect the power of reputation to induce sellers to exert effort. The impact of …. To guide the empirical analysis, I develop a model of reputation where the relative number of hosts and guests affects … the value of building a reputation through effort. In this framework, more competition depresses hosts' profits and leads …
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the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative …
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This paper explores the relationship between trust and establishment performance. The outcome indicators are management’s assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its relative labor productivity. Trust is initially measured using the individual survey...
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