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How Much Does Size Erode Mutual Fund Performance? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Reuter, Jonathan - 2010

The level of diseconomies of scale in asset management has important implications for tests of manager skill and the expected level of performance persistence. To identify the causal impact of fund size on future returns, we exploit the fact that small differences in returns can cause discrete...

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The Costs of Free Entry : An Empirical Study of Real Estate Agents in Greater Boston

Jia, Panle - 2011

substantial turnover. Using a comprehensive dataset of agents and transactions from 1998-2007, we find that entry does not … increase sales probabilities or reduce the time it takes for properties to sell, decreases the market share of experienced …

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The Impact of Tax Incentives on the Economic Activity of Entrepreneurs

Harju, Jarkko - 2012

Based on existing evidence, we know little about how the taxation of small business owners affects their economic activity. This paper studies the effect of two Finnish tax reforms, in 1997 and 1998, on the effort decisions of the owners of small businesses utilizing both theoretical model and...

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Distribution Capital and the Short- and Long-Run Import Demand Elasticity

Crucini, Mario J. - 2013

The elasticity of substitution between home and foreign goods is one of the most important parameters in international economics. The international macro literature, which is primarily concerned with short-run business cycle fluctuations, assigns a low value to this parameter. The international...

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Intellectual Property Use in Middle Income Countries : The Case of Chile

Fink, Carsten - 2018

A frequently debated question is whether the use of intellectual property (IP) protection benefits the residents of low and middle income countries. We contribute to this debate with an analysis of the use of patents and trademarks by firms in Chile over the decade 1995-2005 as the then...

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Income Misattribution Under Formula Apportionment

Hines Jr., James R. - 2010

sales. This paper offers a new method of evaluating the accuracy of these apportionment rules and the ownership distortions … example, the magnitude of property, employment and sales explains less than 22 percent of the variation in profits between …

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The Intensive Margin in Trade

Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018

. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around …

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Creating a Bigger Pie? the Effects of Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Stock Options on Workplace Performance

Blasi, Joseph - 2010

This paper uses data from NBER surveys of over 40,000 employees in hundreds of facilities in 14 firms and from employees on the 2002 and 2006 General Social Surveys to explore how shared compensation affects turnover, absenteeism, loyalty, worker effort, and other outcomes affecting workplace...

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Box Office Buzz : Does Social Media Data Steal the Show from Model Uncertainty When Forecasting for Hollywood?

Lehrer, Steven F. - 2016

and Blu-Ray) sales. Our results contrasting eleven different empirical strategies from econometrics and penalization … retail movie unit sales …

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Streaming Reaches Flood Stage : Does Spotify Stimulate or Depress Music Sales?

Aguiar, Luis - 2015

interest in music not generating revenue through individual track sales - unpaid consumption and deadweight loss - into … willingness to pay for the bundled offering. On the other hand, streaming may displace traditional individual track sales. Even if … they displace sales, streams may however still raise overall revenue if the streaming payment is large enough in relation …

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