has examined complementarities in production, we propose that sectors make similar input decisions because of … complementarities in information acquisition. Because information about driving forces has a high fixed cost of production and a low … correlated production choices. This mechanism amplifies the effects of common shocks, relative to sectoral shocks. …

theory of revealed altruism comes closest to explaining our results. …

opposite effect on manufacturing employment, suggesting that local officials' efforts to attract shopping centers and large … stores crowd out manufacturing. -- fiscal zoning ; sales taxes ; retail employment ; manufacturing employment …

inventory behavior to include a detailed specification of the role of labor input in the production process and of the costs … production process and the definition of labor input as the product of employment and effective hours worked per worker. …

individuals have heterogeneous social and cognitive skills. In the model, there are gains to specialization and team production … communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …

attainment and time in household production by both women and men. Both the market and nonmarket sectors will be covered as well …

measurement. Moreover, the theoretical literature on differences in production technologies across businesses increasingly … emphasizes the task content of production. Our ultimate objective is to open this black box of tasks and skills at the …

and test it on data from Major League Baseball. A competitive firm with a Generalized Leontief production function fills …