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This paper examines the output contributions of capital and labor deployed in information systems (IS) at the firm …
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Supporters of touch-screen voting claim it is a highly reliable voting technology, while a growing number of critics argue that paperless electronic voting systems are vulnerable to fraud. In this paper we use county-level data on voting technologies in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections...
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Using the implementation of the EDGAR system from 1993 to 1996 as a shock to information dissemination technologies, we … examine the potential benefits and costs of modern information technologies on the real economy. On the one hand, we document … that broader information dissemination leads to a decrease in the cost of capital and an increase in the level of equity …
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treatment group that was given information about key Social Security provisions and a control group that was not. The experiment … behavior, the information intervention increased survey measures of the perceived returns to working longer, especially among …
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When there is uncertainty about a CEO's quality, news about the firm causes rational investors to update their expectation of the firm's profitability for two reasons: Updates occur because of the direct effect of the news, and also because the news can cause an updated assessment of the CEO's...
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We develop online survey experiments to analyze how information about inequality and taxes affects preferences for … redistribution. Approximately 4,000 respondents were randomized into treatments providing interactive, customized information on U …
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How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents different facets and in theory has ambiguous effects on corporate transparency. On the one hand, by exposing firms to more product market competition, it could discourage discretionary disclosure. On the...
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Historically, urban growth required enough development to grow and transport significant agricultural surpluses or a government effective enough to build an empire. But there has been an explosion of poor mega-cities over the last thirty years. A simple urban model illustrates that in closed...
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We study the information aggregation properties of unanimous voting rules in the laboratory. In line with theoretical …
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In July 2002, FINRA began mandatory dissemination of price and volume information for corporate bond trades. This paper …
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