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Workplace Knowledge Flows
Sandvik, Jason - 2020
What prevents the spread of information among coworkers, and which management practices facilitate workplace knowledge flows? We conducted a field experiment in a sales company, addressing these questions with three active treatments. (1) Encouraging workers to talk about their sales techniques...
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The Intensive Margin in Trade
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018
The Melitz model highlights the importance of the extensive margin (the number of firms exporting) for trade flows. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around 50% of variation in exports is along the extensive...
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Indivisibilities in Distribution
Holmes, Thomas J. - 2018
This paper develops and estimates a model of indivisibilities in shipping and economies of scale in consolidation. It uses highly detailed data on imports for which it is possible to observe the contents of individual containers. In the model, a firm is able to adapt to indivisibility...
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Distribution Capital and the Short- and Long-Run Import Demand Elasticity
Crucini, Mario J. - 2013
The elasticity of substitution between home and foreign goods is one of the most important parameters in international economics. The international macro literature, which is primarily concerned with short-run business cycle fluctuations, assigns a low value to this parameter. The international...
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The Modern Wholesaler : Global Sourcing, Domestic Distribution, and Scale Economies
Ganapati, Sharat - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Nearly half of all transactions in the $5 trillion market for manufactured goods in the United States were intermediated by wholesalers in 2012, up from 32 percent in 1992. Seventy percent of this increase is due to the growth of "superstar" firms - the largest one percent of wholesalers....
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A Model of Influencer Economy
Cong, Lin William; Li, Siguang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
With the rise of social media and streaming platforms, firms and brand-owners increasingly depend on influencers to attract consumers, who care about both common product quality and consumer-influencer interaction. Sellers thus compete in both influencer and product markets. As outreach and...
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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000
Blau, Francine D. - 2008
We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan
Mitchener, Kris J. - 2008
integration …
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The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment
Ghironi, Fabio - 2007
Ongoing international financial integration has greatly increased foreign asset holdings across countries, enhancing … claims to firm profits in a production economy. For a given level of international financial integration (measured by the … goods, and the persistence of shocks. Finally, moving from less to more international financial integration, risk sharing …
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Is the International Diversification Potential Diminishing? Foreign Equity Inside and Outside the US
Lewis, Karen K. - 2006
capital markets have become more integrated. In this paper, I ask what this integration and its resulting higher correlation …
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