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Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing
Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal...
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Using Behavioral Economic Field Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier: The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project
Burks, Stephen V.; Goette, Lorenz; Monaco, Kristen; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...
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Why Are Process Monitoring Technologies Valuable? The Use of On-Board Information Technology in the Trucking Industry
Hubbard, Thomas N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998
Recent advances in information technology (IT) have enabled firms in many industries to give middle managers new access to timely production data. Process monitoring' technologies give distant managers a window to production which can both lower their cost of monitoring subordinates and provide...
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Entry and Predation: British Shipping Cartels 1879-1929
Morton, Fiona Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996
I examine the outcomes of cases of entry by merchant shipping lines into established markets around the turn of the century. These established markets are completely dominated by an incumbent cartel composed of several member shipping lines. The cartel makes the decision whether or not to begin...
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New Measures of Port Efficiency Using International Trade Data
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Wilson, Wesley W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
that allows one to compare port efficiency measures of any kind across ports and, especially, over time. This paper … provides a new statistical method of uncovering port efficiency measures using U.S. Census data on imports into U.S. ports … evolution of port efficiencies over time and its effects on international trade flows and country-level growth. …
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Regulating Bidder Participation in Auctions
Bhattacharya, Vivek; Roberts, James W.; Sweeting, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Regulating bidder participation in auctions can potentially increase efficiency compared to standard auction formats with free entry. We show that the relative performance of two such mechanisms, a standard first-price auction with free entry and an entry rights auction, depends...
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Moral Hazard, Incentive Contracts and Risk: Evidence from Procurement
Lewis, Gregory; Bajari, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Deadlines and penalties are widely used to incentivize effort. We model how these incentive contracts affect the work rate and time taken in a procurement setting, characterizing the efficient contract design. Using new micro-level data on Minnesota highway construction contracts that includes...
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Are Closely-Held Firms Tax Shelters?
Kopczuk, Wojciech; Alstadsæter, Annette; Telle, Kjetil - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In 2004 Norwegian authorities announced a reform introducing dividend taxation for personal (but not corporate) owners to take effect starting in 2006. This change provided incentives to maximize dividends in 2004 and 2005, and to retain earnings in the following years. Using Norwegian registry...
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Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers
Lim, Jongha; Sensoy, Berk A.; Weisbach, Michael S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Indirect incentives exist in the money management industry when good current performance increases future inflows of new capital, leading to higher future fees. We quantify the magnitude of indirect performance incentives for hedge fund managers. Flows respond quickly and strongly to performance;...
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. . . and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns
Harvey, Campbell; Liu, Yan; Zhu, Heqing - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Hundreds of papers and hundreds of factors attempt to explain the cross-section of expected returns. Given this extensive data mining, it does not make any economic or statistical sense to use the usual significance criteria for a newly discovered factor, e.g., a t-ratio greater than 2.0....
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