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Firm Heterogeneity and Firm Behavior with Conditional Policies
Demidova, Svetlana A. - 2007
This paper shows that the result of Ju and Krishna (2002, 2005), i.e., the non-monotonicity in the comparative statics across regimes, disappears, if exporters differ in their productivities, which provides very different predictions about the results of policy changes
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777451
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The Structure and Formation of Business Groups : Evidence from Korean Chaebols
Almeida, Heitor; Park, Sang Yong; Subrahmanyam, Marti G.; … - 2021
In this paper we study the determinants of business groups' ownership structure using unique panel data on Korean chaebols. In particular, we attempt to understand how pyramids form over time. We find that chaebols grow vertically (that is, pyramidally) as the family uses well-established group...
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Theories of Heterogeneous Firms and Trade
Redding, Stephen J. - 2010
This paper reviews the recent theoretical literature on heterogeneous firms and trade, which emphasizes firm selection into international markets and reallocations of resources across firms. We discuss the empirical challenges that motivated this research and its relationship to traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135411
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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000
Blau, Francine D. - 2008
We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770096
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The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment
Ghironi, Fabio Pietro - 2007
Ongoing international financial integration has greatly increased foreign asset holdings across countries, enhancing … claims to firm profits in a production economy. For a given level of international financial integration (measured by the … goods, and the persistence of shocks. Finally, moving from less to more international financial integration, risk sharing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777584
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The Effect of Hospital/Physician Integration on Hospital Choice
Baker, Laurence C. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate how hospital ownership of physicians' practices affects their patients' hospital choices. We match data on the hospital admissions of Medicare beneficiaries, including the identity of their admitting physician, with data on the identity of the owner of the admitting...
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Fraternity Membership and Binge Drinking
DeSimone, Jeffrey S. - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between membership in social fraternities and sororities and binge drinking among 18-24 year old full-time four-year college students who participated in the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey. To deal with unobserved heterogeneity in binge...
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Organizing Growth
Garicano, Luis - 2015
We study the impact of information and communication technology on growth through its impact on organization and innovation. Agents accumulate knowledge through two activities: innovation (discovering new technologies) and exploitation (learning how to use the current technology). Exploitation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750290
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Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery : Spending Your Donations
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2012
This paper analyzes how different organizational structures between funding and implementing agencies affect the quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the implied objective functions and trade-offs concerning aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113102
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Measuring Organization Capital
Atkeson, Andrew; Kehoe, Patrick J. - 2022
In the manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy, nearly 9% of output is not accounted for as payments to either physical capital or labor. The value of this output is a little larger than the value of the stock of physical capital. We build a model to measure how much of this output can be...
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