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Does Trade Globalization Induce or Inhibit Corporate Transparency? Unbundling the Growth Potential and Product Market Competition Channels
Tong, Hui - 2014
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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The Bail-In Problem : Systematic Goals, Ad Hoc Means
Eichengreen, Barry; Ruehl, Christof - 2021
, Ecuador, Romania and Ukraine. We show that because default and restructuring are so painful and costly, it is simply not time …
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Property Rights and Finance
Johnson, Simon; McMillan, John; Woodruff, Christopher M. - 2021
Which is the tighter constraint on private sector investment: weak property rights or limited access to external finance? From a survey of new firms in post-communist countries, we find that weak property rights discourage firms from reinvesting their profits, even when bank loans are available....
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The Evolution of Brand Preferences : Evidence from Consumer Migration
Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2010
We study the long-run evolution of brand preferences, using new data on consumers' life histories and purchases of consumer packaged goods. Variation in where consumers have lived in the past allows us to isolate the causal effect of past experiences on current purchases, holding constant...
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Customer Capital
Gourio, Francois - 2011
Firms spend substantial resources on marketing and selling. Interpreting this as evidence of frictions in product …
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Market Selection
Kogan, Leonid - 2010
The hypothesis that financial markets punish traders who make relatively inaccurate forecasts and eventually eliminate the effect of their beliefs on prices is of fundamental importance to the standard modeling paradigm in asset pricing. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for...
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Marketing Mutual Funds
Roussanov, Nikolai L. - 2018
Marketing and distribution expenses are responsible for about a third of the cost of active management in the mutual … skill net of fees. Declining investor search costs over time imply a reduction in marketing expenses and management fees as … fund industry. We develop and estimate a structural model of mutual fund marketing with learning about unobserved skill and …
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Market Penetration Costs and the New Consumers Margin in International Trade
Arkolakis, Costas - 2008
I develop a new theory of marketing costs and introduce it into a model of trade with product differentiation and firm …
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Mortality from Nestlé's Marketing of Infant Formula in Low and Middle-Income Countries
Anttila-Hughes, Jesse - 2018
Intensive and controversial marketing of infant formula is believed to be responsible for millions of infant deaths in …
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Cooperative Marketing Agreements between Competitors : Evidence from Patent Pools
Tirole, Jean - 2014
On numerous occasions, rival firms seek to market goods together, particularly in high-technology industries. This paper empirically examines one such institution: the patent pool. The analysis highlights five findings consistent with the theoretical predictions: (a) pools involving substitute...
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