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Anonymous Market and Group Ties in International Trade
Casella, Alessandra; Rauch, James E. - 2021
When trade involves differentiated products, preferential ties to a group settled abroad facilitate an exporter's entry into the foreign market by providing information and access to distribution channels. This contrasts with the difficulties experienced by an unattached producer unfamiliar with...
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The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance
Eccles, Robert G. - 2012
We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched sample of 180 US companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies by 1993 - termed as High Sustainability companies - exhibit by 2009 distinct...
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Surviving the U.S. Import Market : The Role of Product Differentiation
Besedes, Tibor; Prusa, Thomas J. - 2021
18 percent higher for homogenous goods than for differentiated products. Put another way, the median survival time for …-35 percent higher for homogenous goods than for differentiated products. We also find that the survival ranking across product …
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Private Deception and the Rise of Public Employment Offices in the United States, 1890 - 1930
Lee, Woong - 2008
At the turn of the 20th century, state and local governments in the United States began to establish public employment offices. These non-profit governmental organizations match job seekers and businesses, one of their main objectives being to protect job seekers from fraudulent activities by...
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Bid Shading and Bidder Surplus in the U.S. Treasury Auction System
Hortacsu, Ali - 2017
We analyze bidding data from uniform price auctions of U.S. Treasury bills and notes between July 2009-October 2013. Primary dealers consistently bid higher yields compared to direct and indirect bidders. We estimate a structural model of bidding that takes into account informational asymmetries...
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Information and Competition in U.S. Forest Service Timber Auctions
Athey, Susan; Levin, Jonathan - 2021
This paper studies the bidding behavior of firms in U.S. Forest Service timber auctions in 1976--1990. When conducting timber auctions, the Forest Service publicly announces its estimates of the tract characteristics before the auction, and each bidder additionally has an opportunity to inspect...
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Quality Competition Versus Price Competition Goods : An Empirical Classification
Baldwin, Richard - 2010
(QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find … a high proportions of quality-competition goods for the major EU countries and lower proportions for Canada, Australia … and China. However, the overlap of these quality-competition goods is not large, which suggests that characteristics of …
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Demand Estimation Under Incomplete Product Availability
Conlon, Christopher T. - 2010
Incomplete product availability is an important feature of many markets; ignoring changes in availability may bias demand estimates. We study a new dataset from a wireless inventory system installed on 54 vending machines to track product availability every four hours. The data allow us to...
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Is Home Bias in Assets Related to Home Bias in Goods?
van Wincoop, Eric - 2010
Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) have reinvigorated an old literature on the link between home bias in the goods market and … home bias in the asset market by arguing that trade costs in the goods market can account for the observed portfolio home … the implied home bias are close to zero, casting significant doubt on a meaningful link between home bias in the goods and …
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Explaining Import Variety and Quality : The Role of the Income Distribution
Choi, Yo Chul - 2010
We examine a generalized version of Flam and Helpmanacirc;euro;TMs (1987) model of vertical differentiation that maps cross-country differences in income distributions to variations in import variety and price distributions. The theoretical predictions are examined and confirmed using micro data...
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