example, the magnitude of property, employment and sales explains less than 22 percent of the variation in profits between … Base in Europe, would apportion a firm's worldwide profits using formulas based on the location of employment, capital or … sales. This paper offers a new method of evaluating the accuracy of these apportionment rules and the ownership distortions …

We investigate how the employment-based health insurance system in the U.S. affects individuals' life-cycle health … turnovers lead to dynamic inefficiencies in health investment, and particularly, it suggests that employment-based health … the U.S. as a result of the employment-based health insurance system. We also evaluate and cast doubt on alternative …

workers, continued full employment will greatly strengthen the case for the US as peak economy. But with anything less than … full employment the US economy will lose its luster. Even if this occurs, however, the US record in employing women and … to be the peak capitalist economy in the new information economy. This paper develops criterion for judging peak status …

accounting for sales variation across merchants, across stores within retail chains, and over time for individual merchants and … stores. Customers, as opposed to transactions per customer or dollar sales per transaction, consistently account for about 80 …% of sales variation. The top 1% of growing and shrinking merchants account for about 70% of customer and sales …

flows? We conducted a field experiment in a sales company, addressing these questions with three active treatments. (1 …) Encouraging workers to talk about their sales techniques with a randomly chosen partner during short meetings substantially lifted … average sales revenue during and after the experiment. The largest gains occurred for those matched with high …

Although typically overlooked, many purchase datasets exhibit a high incidence of products with zero sales. We propose … endogeneity of marketing variables both in demand and in the selection propensities. Monte Carlo simulations show that our …

in sales. Placing business types into different categories based on whether they were essential or non-essential (and …, indicate that the number of active business owners dropped by 22 percent from February to April 2020. In this descriptive … research note, we provide the first analysis of losses in sales and revenues among the universe of businesses in California …