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We use a theory of apologies to design a nationwide field experiment involving 1.5 million Uber ridesharing consumers …
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have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This …
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A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S …. Government to reduce barriers to international trade in services.The paper distinguishes four different classifications of … economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been …
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Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty highlights the role of “voice” in disciplining firms for low quality. We develop a formal model of voice as a relational contact between firms and consumers and show that voice is more likely to emerge in concentrated markets. We test this model using...
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) by adding newly traded goods and services and that much of this new trade is in intermediates. I provide an extension of …
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market services. The theory is also consistent with a rising level of skill and skill premium, a rising relative price of … total economy. Empirically, we emphasize that the growth has been driven by the consumption of services. Rather than being … driven by low-skill jobs, the importance of skill-intensive services has risen, and this has coincided with a period of …
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production, and female labor supply in the growth of services. We extend the Buera and Kaboski (2012a,b) model to a two … progress. The rising scale of services, the rising demand for skill-intensive output, and skill-biased technical change all … also plays a role in services growth …
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This paper emphasizes the different nature of cross border liberalization in network related services, such as telecoms … country. We also argue that non-cooperation in network related services trade may involve more extreme retaliation than … liberalization in network related services become larger than from liberalization in goods. An empirical implementation of global …
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health services (and other services subject to agency problems) to consider the organizational form of their suppliers when …
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We analyze a model where investors use a credit rating to decide whether to finance a firm. The rating quality depends on unobservable effort exerted by a credit rating agency (CRA). We study optimal compensation schemes for the CRA when a planner, the firm, or investors order the rating. Rating...
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