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This paper measures for the first time the economic efficiency effects of the taxation of wireless services, which are … thereby suppress demand for service, imposing an efficiency loss on the economy of $0.53 for every $1 currently raised in … taxes. Prospective taxes will impose an efficiency loss of $0.72-$1.14 per additional dollar of tax revenue raised …
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and finalists of the RIT/USA Today Quality Cup. The authors interviewed 75 employees (5 per firm) including 14 executives …
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This paper offers an empirical test of ownership mix efficiency in the U.S. hospital services industry. The test …
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qualitative evidence to support an alternative view that the lease generated a net efficiency gain, resulting in lower steel …
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do not alter this aspect of labor market efficiency …
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and opposite efficiency effect …
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percent increase in operating efficiency, achieved primarily by reducing the frequency and duration of reactor outages. At … average wholesale prices the value of this increased efficiency is approximately $2.5 billion annually and implies an annual …
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effects of acquisitions on efficiency and underlying mechanisms. We find a 2% average increase in efficiency for acquired … plants, beginning five months after acquisitions. Efficiency gains rise to 5% under direct ownership changes, with no … significant change when only parent ownership changes. Investigating the mechanisms, three-quarters of the efficiency gain is …
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Recent advances in information technology (IT) have enabled firms in many industries to give middle managers new access to timely production data. Process monitoring' technologies give distant managers a window to production which can both lower their cost of monitoring subordinates and provide...
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A salient feature of globalization in recent decades is the emergence of "global supply chains" in which different countries specialize in different stages of a sequential production process. In Arnaud Costinot, Jonathan Vogel and Su Wang (2011), CVW hereafter, we have developed a simple theory...
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