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Sandvik, Jason - 2020

What prevents the spread of information among coworkers, and which management practices facilitate workplace knowledge 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...

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The Intensive Margin in Trade

Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018

The Melitz model highlights the importance of the extensive margin (the number of firms exporting) for trade flows. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around 50% of variation in exports is along the extensive...

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Indivisibilities in Distribution

Holmes, Thomas J. - 2018

This paper develops and estimates a model of indivisibilities in shipping and economies of scale in consolidation. It uses highly detailed data on imports for which it is possible to observe the contents of individual containers. In the model, a firm is able to adapt to indivisibility...

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Distribution Capital and the Short- and Long-Run Import Demand Elasticity

Crucini, Mario J. - 2013

The elasticity of substitution between home and foreign goods is one of the most important parameters in international … economics. The international macro literature, which is primarily concerned with short-run business cycle fluctuations, assigns … a low value to this parameter. The international trade literature, which is more concerned with long-run changes in …

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The Modern Wholesaler : Global Sourcing, Domestic Distribution, and Scale Economies

Ganapati, Sharat - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Nearly half of all transactions in the $5 trillion market for manufactured goods in the United States were intermediated by wholesalers in 2012, up from 32 percent in 1992. Seventy percent of this increase is due to the growth of "superstar" firms - the largest one percent of wholesalers....

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A Model of Influencer Economy

Cong, Lin William; Li, Siguang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

With the rise of social media and streaming platforms, firms and brand-owners increasingly depend on influencers to attract consumers, who care about both common product quality and consumer-influencer interaction. Sellers thus compete in both influencer and product markets. As outreach and...

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A Dynamic Analysis of the Market for Wide-Bodied Commercial Aircraft

Benkard, C. Lanier - 2000

This paper develops a multi-agent dynamic model of the commercial aircraft industry and then uses that model to analyze industry pricing, industry performance, and optimal industry policy. In the model, firms are differentiated in their products and cost structure, and entry, exit, prices, and...

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The Impact of US News and World Report College Rankings on Admission Outcomes and Pricing Decisions at Selective Private Institutions

Monks, James - 1999

Despite the widespread popularity of the U.S. News & World Report College rankings there has been no empirical analysis of the impact of these rankings on applications, admissions, and enrollment decisions, as well as on institutions' pricing policies. Our analyses indicate that a less favorable...

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Sticky Prices, Coordination and Collusion

Driscoll, John C. - 1999

New Keynesian models of price setting under monopolistic competition involve two kinds of inefficiency: the price level is too high because firms ignore an aggregate demand externality, and when there are costs of changing prices, price stickiness may be an equilibrium response to changes in...

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Pricing to Market, Staggered Contracts, and Real Exchange Rate Persistence

Bergin, Paul R. - 1999

This paper offers an explanation for the persistence observed in real exchange rate movements. The model combines pricing to market behavior with sticky prices generated by staggered contracts. A translog preference structure is sued to enhance both features. The paper finds that openness limits...

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