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coagglomeration to document heterogeneity across industries in the microfoundations of agglomeration economies. The pattern of …Many prior treatments of agglomeration either explicitly or implicitly suppose that all industries agglomerate for the … approach is the extrapolation of the agglomeration experience of one key sector or cluster to the larger economy. Another is …
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pairwise meta-analysis, causing heterogeneity), but also between comparisons (causing inconsistency). If there is an imbalance …
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This paper introduces a nonparametric Granger-causality test for covariance stationary linear processes under, possibly …
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primitive causality property then every local system ( A (V 1 ), A (V 2 ), φ) with a locally normal and locally faithful state φ …
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We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare...
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persistence is lower with heterogeneity in price stickiness than without it, taking as given the degree of persistence in …
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due to heterogeneity in firm-level responses to aggregate shocks. Firms are able to diversify most idiosyncratic …
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enhancing the assignment of workers to jobs in the face of firm productivity heterogeneity and skill-biased technological change … emerging from the analysis is that the degree of firm productivity heterogeneity, in terms of skewness and variance, matters …
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This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the...
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This paper investigates how corruption affects firrm behavior. Firms can engage in two types of corruption when seeking a public service: cost-reducing "collusive" corruption and cost increasing "coercive" corruption. Using an original and unusually rich dataset on bribe payments at ports...
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