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Organizational Frictions and Increasing Returns to Automation : Lessons from AT&T in the Twentieth Century

Feigenbaum, James J.; Gross, Daniel P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

AT&T was the largest U.S. firm for most of the 20th century. Telephone operators once comprised over 50% of its workforce, but in the late 1910s it initiated a decades-long process of automating telephone operation with mechanical call switching--a technology first invented in the 1880s. We...

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Is the U.S. public corporation in trouble?

Kahle, Kathleen - 2016

We examine the current state of the U.S. public corporation and how it has evolved over the last 40 years. After falling by 50 percent since its peak in 1997, the number of public corporations is now smaller than 40 years ago. These corporations are now much larger and over the last twenty years...

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Federal Reserve Structure and the Production of Monetary Policy Ideas

Bordo, Michael D.; Prescott, Edward Simpson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We evaluate the decentralized structure of the Federal Reserve System as a mechanism for generating and processing new ideas on monetary policy over the 1960 - 2000 period. We document the introduction of monetarism, rational expectations, credibility, transparency, and other monetary policy...

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A comparison between sustainability frameworks : an integrated reading through ESG criteria for business strategies and enterprise risk management

Casciotti, Paola - 2023

Reporting to Sustainability Reporting, impose to pay attention to new criteria and contents, also in order to distinguish … Sustainability, like the institutional ones (MDG, SDG, BES) and one of the most widespread standard of non financial reporting … SDGs, to implement coherent public and enterprise's policies and to produce realistic sustainability reports. The …

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Exporting and Firm Performance : Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Atkin, David - 2014

We conduct a randomized experiment that generates exogenous variation in the access to foreign markets for rug producers in Egypt. Combined with detailed survey data, we causally identify the impact of exporting on firm performance. Treatment firms report 16-26 percent higher profits and exhibit...

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Policy uncertainty and aggregate fluctuations

Mumtaz, Haroon; Surico, Paolo - 2013

changes, (iii) public debt sustainability and (iv) monetary policy. Following a one standard deviation shock, uncertainty … about debt sustainability has the largest and most significant impact on real activity, with negative effects on output … by debt sustainability. Our results are based on a new empirical framework that allows the volatility of identified …

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Cover Crops, Drought, Yield and Risk : an Analysis of U.S. Soybean Production

Dong, Fengxia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Besides a variety of production and environmental benefits, cover cropping has been advocated as a mean to increase resilience to drought. We explored factors influencing farmer's adoption of cover crops and examined the effects of cover crops on soybean yield and its risk using USDA's 2018 ARMS...

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Management and Misallocation in Mexico

Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...

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Corporate Flexibility in a Time of Crisis

Barry, John W.; Campello, Murillo; Graham, John R.; Ma, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use the COVID shock to study the direct and interactive effects of several forms of corporate flexibility on short- and long-term real business plans. We find that i) workplace flexibility, namely the ability for employees to work remotely, plays a central role in determining firms'...

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M&A and Technological Expansion

Jin, Ginger Zhe; Leccese, Mario; Wagman, Liad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine how public firms listed in North American stock exchanges acquire technology companies during 2010-2020. Combining data from S&P, Refinitiv, Compustat, and CRSP, and utilizing a unique S&P taxonomy that classifies tech M&As by tech categories and business verticals, we show that 13.1%...

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