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We use a theory of apologies to design a nationwide field experiment involving 1.5 million Uber ridesharing consumers …
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A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S …. Government to reduce barriers to international trade in services.The paper distinguishes four different classifications of … economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been …
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have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This …
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Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty highlights the role of "voice" in disciplining firms for low quality. We develop a formal model of voice as a relational contact between firms and consumers and show that voice is more likely to emerge in concentrated markets. We test this model using data on...
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Digital platforms are not only match-making intermediaries but also establish internal rules that govern all users in their ecosystems. To better understand the governing role of platforms, we study two Airbnb pro-guest rules that pertain to guest and host cancellations, using data on Airbnb and...
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In medical treatment and elsewhere, it has become standard to base treatment intensity (dosage) on evidence in randomized trials. Yet it has been rare to study how outcomes vary with dosage. In trials to obtain drug approval, the norm has been to specify some dose of a new drug and compare it...
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) by adding newly traded goods and services and that much of this new trade is in intermediates. I provide an extension of …
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market services. The theory is also consistent with a rising level of skill and skill premium, a rising relative price of … total economy. Empirically, we emphasize that the growth has been driven by the consumption of services. Rather than being … driven by low-skill jobs, the importance of skill-intensive services has risen, and this has coincided with a period of …
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This paper emphasizes the different nature of cross border liberalization in network related services, such as telecoms … country. We also argue that non-cooperation in network related services trade may involve more extreme retaliation than … liberalization in network related services become larger than from liberalization in goods. An empirical implementation of global …
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production, and female labor supply in the growth of services. We extend the Buera and Kaboski (2012a,b) model to a two … progress. The rising scale of services, the rising demand for skill-intensive output, and skill-biased technical change all … also plays a role in services growth …
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