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paper develops an alternative theory in which industries are made up of large plants producing standardized goods and small …
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average returns. This rules out typical risk-based explanations and is a challenge to structural models of time …
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these incremental bidders at a price below their reserve, with no time to respond. As a consequence, these incremental …
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have different validity across time (e.g., banking, borrowing, and seasons) and space (e.g., zonal restrictions), and …
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An ongoing debate sets capital budgeting against market timing. The primary difficulty in evaluating these theories is finding distinct exogenous proxies for investment opportunities and mispricing. We use demand shifts induced by demographics to address this problem, and hence, provide a more...
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. The imperfect information is endogenized using a variant of the theory of "rational inattention" proposed by Sims (1998 …
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We examine the timing of firms' operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the...
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Although individuals are all endowed with the same time budgets, time use patterns differ owing to heterogeneity in … human capital allocate time to physically-demanding activities that we characterize as health-producing behaviors. Our data … are drawn from multiple years of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), which are based on daily time use diaries and …
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Policymaking for posterity involves current decisions with distant consequences. Contrary to conventional prescriptions, we conclude that the greater wealth of future generations may strengthen the case for preserving environmental amenities; lower discount rates should be applied to the far...
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confirm that the cost of intertemporally substituting activities is increasing over time: when alerts are issued on two …, reset these costs. Our findings imply that a time-varying decision rule that accounts for multiple day air quality forecasts …
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