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This paper shows that large, multi-establishment business enterprises face a high cost of middle management in poor … real management costs with respect to real GDP per worker is 0.1. We quantify the importance of this finding using a … calibrated appropriate technology model where firms choose whether to adopt the management-intensive modern business structure …
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What explains record U.S. house price growth since late 2019? We show that the shift to remote work explains over one half of the 23.8 percent national house price increase over this period. Using variation in remote work exposure across U.S. metropolitan areas we estimate that an additional...
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How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents different facets and in theory has ambiguous effects on corporate transparency. On the one hand, by exposing firms to more product market competition, it could discourage discretionary disclosure. On the...
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, holding fixed firm size, soft information also favors flatter organizations with fewer layers of management. In contrast …, large hierarchical firms with multiple layers of management are at a comparative advantage when information can be …This paper assesses different organizational forms in terms of their ability to generate information about investment …
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The distance between small firms and their lenders in the United States is increasing. Not only are firms choosing more distant lenders, they are also communicating with them in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate that they do not stem from small...
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This paper explores environments in which either the revelation or diffusion of information, or its incorporation into … methodology and for understanding the process by which stock prices incorporate information. Two environments are highlighted …. First, information is often not revealed in one announcement but rather through a process of gradual public revelation …
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Firms invest differentially in the intellectual human capital required to recognize, evaluate, and utilize technological breakthroughs occurring outside the firm. Such differential investment has been crucial in explaining which incumbent pharmaceutical firms have successfully transformed their...
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A model of interest rate movements in response to new information on the money stock is developed.The model, which …
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This paper shows how recent developments in the Economics of Information can provide insights into economic relations …
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Employment matches under uncertainty are typically accompanied by opportunities for information acquisition. Workers … can acquire specific information about productivity lotteries at the firm or general information affecting their … probabilistic beliefs about work elsewhere. Enterprises can acquire specific information concerning the productivity of a particular …
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