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We study the inferences about labor adjustment costs obtained by the 'gap methodology' of Caballero and Engel [1993] and Caballero, Engel and Haltiwanger [1997]. In that approach, the policy function of a manufacturing plant is assumed to depend on the gap between a target and the current level...
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Typically measures of multifactor productivity growth have been based on a production and optimization framework that assumes all inputs are instantaneously adjustable, thus ignoring the important impacts of short run fixity of certain inputs. This paper focuses on the distinction between short...
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In this paper we develop measures of economic capacity output and economic capacity utilization for firms producing multiple outputs and having one or .ore quasi-fixed inputs. Although we produce an impossibility theorem showing that based only on the assumption of cost minimization, the concept...
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demand, the size of the price change, and the degree of frictions. The degree of frictions is measured by the utility losses …
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that, after monetary policy announcements, the conditional volatility rises more for firms with stickier prices than for …
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We analyze the effect of mergers on various aspects of airline performance during the period 1970-84, using a panel …
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than its static analog. We then test the theory using monthly production targets of the Big Three U.S. auto manufacturers …
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demand estimates. We study a new dataset from a wireless inventory system installed on 54 vending machines to track product … availability every four hours. The data allow us to account for product availability when estimating demand, and provides a … availability even when availability is only observed periodically. We find significant differences in demand estimates, with the …
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We analyze tacit collusion in an industry characterized by cyclical demand and long-run scale decisions; firms face … deterministic demand cycles and choose capacity levels prior to competing in prices. Our focus is on the nature of prices. We find … of capacity is high enough, holding current demand constant, prices in the boom will be generally lower than the prices …
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