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Optimal Monetary Policy with Informational Frictions
Angeletos, George-Marios - 2011
This paper studies optimal policy in a business-cycle setting in which firms have a blurry understanding of the state of the economy due to informational or cognitive constraints. The latter are not only the source of nominal rigidity but also an impediment in the coordination of production. The...
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Does management matter? : evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen (contributor) - 2011
"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394862
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Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas - 2011
A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461999
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International Trade : Linking Micro and Macro
Eaton, Jonathan - 2012
A recent literature has introduced heterogeneous firms into models of international trade. This literature has adopted the convention of treating individual firms as points on a continuum. While the continuum offers many advantages this convenience comes at some cost: (1) Shocks to individual...
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Does Trade Globalization Induce or Inhibit Corporate Transparency? Unbundling the Growth Potential and Product Market Competition Channels
Tong, Hui - 2011
How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents different facets and in theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461026
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Mutual Fund Performance and the Incentive to Generate Alpha
Del Guercio, Diane - 2011
find that flows chase risk-adjusted returns, and that funds respond by investing more in active management. Importantly …
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Participation and Investment Decisions in a Retirement Plan : The Influence of Colleagues' Choices
Duflo, Esther - 2000
This paper investigates whether peer effects play an important role in retirement savings decisions. We use individual data from the staff of a university to study whether individual decisions to enroll in a Tax Deferred Account plan sponsored by the university (and the choice of the mutual fund...
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The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms : Measurement, Determinants, and Implications
Weber, Michael; D'Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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A Model of Firms' Decisions to Export or Produce Abroad
Weinblatt, J. - 1980
This paper is a theoretical analysis of the factors influencing production location decisions by a multinational corporation. It starts with a simple model of optimization for a firm facing the choice between exporting and producing abroad a single differentiated final product and then develops...
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An Economic Model of Amniocentesis Choice
Fajnzylber, Eduardo - 2010
Medical practitioners typically utilize the following protocol when advising pregnant women about testing for the possibility of genetic disorders: Pregnant women over the age of 35 should be tested for Down syndrome and other genetic disorders; for younger women, such tests are discouraged...
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