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Goolsbee, Austan - 2001

This paper estimates the relative price sensitivity of individuals' choice of whether to buy computers online versus in retail stores using a new data source on the computer purchase behavior of more than 20,000 people. To estimate the degree of competition between the two channels, the paper...

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Decomposing Productivity Growth in the U.S. Computer Industry

Chun, Hyunbae - 2002

In this paper, we examine the sources of the productivity growth in the U.S. computer industry from 1978 to 1999. We estimate a joint production model of output quantity and quality that distinguishes two types of technological changes: process and product innovations. Based on the estimation...

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International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New HR Practices : The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. and U.K

Bartel, Ann - 2007

This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...

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How EU Markets Became More Competitive Than US Markets : A Study of Institutional Drift

Gutiérrez, Germán - 2018

political and lobbying expenditures have increased much more in America than in Europe, and using data across industries and …

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Economic Interests, Worldviews, and Identities : Theory and Evidence on Ideational Politics

Ash, Elliott; Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We distinguish between ideational and interest-based appeals to voters on the supply side of politics, and integrate the Keynes-Hayek perspective on the importance of ideas with the Stigler-Becker approach emphasizing vested interests. In our model, political entrepreneurs discover identity and...

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Lobbying Physicians : Payments from Industry and Hospital Procurement of Medical Devices

Bergman, Alon; Grennan, Matthew; Swanson, Ashley - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We draw upon newly merged administrative data sets to study the relationship between payments from medical technology firms to physicians and medical device procurement by hospitals. These payments (and the interactions that accompany them) may facilitate the transfer of valuable information to...

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Land and Credit : A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century

Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2009

Economists have argued that a high concentration of land holdings in a country can create powerful interest groups that retard the creation of economic institutions, and thus hold back economic development. Could these arguments apply beyond underdeveloped countries with backward political...

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The Political Economy of the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis

Mian, Atif - 2008

We examine the determinants of congressional voting behavior on two of the most significant pieces of federal legislation in U.S. economic history: the American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 and the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. We find evidence that...

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Hiring Cheerleaders : Board Appointments of "Independent" Directors

Cohen, Lauren - 2008

We provide evidence that firms appoint independent directors who are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, micro-level data on their views regarding the...

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Foreign Lobbies and US Trade Policy

Gawande, Kishore - 2004

In popular discussion much has been made recently of the susceptibility of government policies to lobbying by … fact be harmful: If the policy outcome absent any lobbying by foreigners is characterized by welfare-reducing trade … barriers, lobbying by foreigners may result in reductions in such barriers and raise consumer surplus (and possibly improve …

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