firm's marginal production costs. We test the theory by exploiting the opening of a high-speed (Shinkansen) train line in … locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to search more and find better suppliers. This in turn drives down the … Japan which lowered the cost of passenger travel but left shipping costs unchanged. Using an exhaustive dataset on firms …

preference factors in order to separately identify risk preferences, information frictions, and perceived plan hassle costs. The … dimensions that they are typically assumed to understand, perceive high plan hassle costs, and make choices that depend on these …

We study how changes in energy input costs for U.S. manufacturers affect the relative welfare of manufacturing …, 70 percent of energy price-driven changes in input costs get passed through to consumers in the short- to medium-run. The …

will be affordable. In this paper, I present the facts about how much accountability costs. The facts are, fortunately …, highly knowable because costs show up both as expenditures on government budgets and as revenues on companies' (mainly test … makers') accounts. Moreover, it turns out that worrying about measurement error in the cost data is pointless. The costs of …

I develop a new theory of marketing costs and introduce it into a model of trade with product differentiation and firm …

focuses on tradable tasks and use it to study how falling costs of offshoring affect factor prices in the source country. We …

costs driven by changes in factor prices than to increases in marginal cost precipitated by expansions in output. We explore …