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Toward an Understanding of Reference-Dependent Labor Supply : Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

Andersen, Steffen - 2014

Perhaps the most powerful form of framing arises through reference dependence, wherein choices are made recognizing the starting point or a goal. In labor economics, for example, a form of reference dependence, income targeting, has been argued to represent a serious challenge to traditional...

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Does the Invisible Hand Efficiently Guide Entry and Exit? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

What accounts for the ubiquity of small vendors operating side-by-side in the urban centers of developing countries? Why don't competitive forces drive some vendors out of the market? We ran an experiment in Kolkata vegetable markets in which we induced (via subsidizing) some vendors to sell...

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The Economics of Open Air Markets

List, John A. - 2009

Despite their current prevalence and historical significance, little is known about the economics of open air markets. This paper uses open air markets as a natural laboratory to provide initial insights into the underlying operation of such markets. Using data on thousands of individual...

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Algorithmic Pricing : Implications for Consumers, Managers, and Regulators

Spann, Martin; Bertini, Marco; Koenigsberg, Oded; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Over the past decade, an increasing number of firms have delegated pricing decisions to algorithms in consumer markets such as travel, entertainment, and retail; business markets such as digital advertising; and platform markets such as ride-sharing. This trend, driven primarily by the increased...

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Intangible Marketing Capital

Bronnenberg, Bart J.; Dubé, Jean-Pierre H.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We present several empirical facts about trends in marketing investment in the US. We also present estimates of the private value of brands to firms and aggregate intangible brand capital stocks created by these investments. These investments include the creation and maintenance of a brand name...

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Nothing Propinks Like Propinquity : Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Effects of Spatial Proximity in the Major League Baseball Draft

Ahmadi, Majid; Durst, Nathan; Lachman, Jeff; List, John A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Recent models and empirical work on network formation emphasize the importance of propinquity in producing strong interpersonal connections. Yet, one might wonder how deep such insights run, as thus far empirical results rely on survey and lab-based evidence. In this study, we examine...

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Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation

Agrawal, Ajay - 2008

The development prospects of a poor country depend in part on its capacity for innovation. The productivity of its …-location and diaspora effects for accessing knowledge. Then, using patent citation data associated with inventions from India, we … access, on average. However, knowledge access conferred by the diaspora is particularly valuable in the production of India …

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The Market Value of R&D in Weak Innovation Regimes : Evidence from India

Kanwar, Sunil - 2015

We revisit the relationship between market value and innovation in the context of manufacturing firms in a developing …

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Does management matter? : evidence from India

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen (contributor) - 2011

"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen...

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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores

Das, Jishnu (contributor) - 2011

school and household inputs, and test its predictions in two very different low-income country settings - Zambia and India …

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