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Empirical evidence suggests that people dislike ads in media products like TV programs. In such situations standard economic theory prescribes that the advertising volume can be optimally reduced by levying a tax on ads. However, making use of recent advances in the theory of Industrial...
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-adjustment costs in an inflationary environment. The model nests both the original menu-cost model that allows production to be …
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unequal tax treatment of public and private sectors precludes production efficiency, it may improve welfare by mitigating the …
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Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can …
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This paper develops an open economy model with heterogeneous final goods producers who simultaneously choose whether to export their goods and whether to use imported intermediates. The model highlights mechanisms whereby import policies affect aggregate productivity, resource allocation, and...
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. Furthermore, we show that a production mode with a higher proportion of outsourcing activity reduces the negotiated wage in the …. Finally, we characterize the optimal production mode and show that stronger labour market imperfections lead to a production …
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We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partly imperfect dual domestic labour markets, where high skilled workers participate in firm's profit via profit sharing: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? What is the...
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We analyze the questions associated with flexible outsourcing both with committed and flexible profit sharing under imperfect domestic labour markets. How does profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? What is the relationship between outsourcing cost, profit sharing and equilibrium...
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result in both models is that production, supply of credit and the front payment to capital producers depend heavily on the … stock market cycles. During phases of optimism, credit is abundant, access to production capital is easy, the cash …-in-advance constraint is lax, the risks are undervalued, and production is booming. But upon reversal in market sentiment, the contraction …
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This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where regional income data are available. We subsequently use...
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