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Manufacturing Productivity and U.S. Economic Growth

Field, Alexander J. - 2018

This chapter examines the historical record of manufacturing productivity growth in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth century in the context of broader trends in private non-farm economy productivity. TFP growth in manufacturing peaked in the 1920s and has trended generally...

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Sweat Equity in U.S. Private Business

Bhandari, Anmol - 2018

We develop a theory of sweat equity—the value of business owners' time and expenses to build customer bases, client … lists, and other intangible assets. We discipline the theory using data from U.S. national accounts, business censuses, and … owners or standard measures of business total factor productivity (TFP). We use our theory to show that abstracting from …

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Introduction : God and the IRS: Accommodating Religious Practice in United States Tax Law

Brunson, Samuel D. - 2018

Seventy-five percent of Americans claim religious affiliation, which can impact their taxpaying responsibilities. In this illuminating book, Samuel D. Brunson describes the many problems and breakdowns that can occur when tax meets religion in the United States, and shows how the US government...

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An Internally Consistent Approach to the Estimation of Market Power and Cost Efficiency with an Application to U.S. Banking

Tsionas, Efthymios G. - 2018

We develop a novel unified econometric methodology for the formal examination of the market power -- cost efficiency nexus. Our approach can meaningfully accommodate a mutually dependent relationship between the firm's cost efficiency and marker power (as measured by the Lerner index) by...

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Reforming the U.S. Corporate Tax Code to Not Just Be Simple, But Be Sensible

Goldspiel, Eric - 2018

The complexity of people's efforts to tax themselves has bedeviled minds for generations. Taxation has developed to raise revenue so that our governments'...

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Teacher Performance Pay in the United States : Incidence and Adult Outcomes

Bond, Timothy - 2018

This paper estimates the effect of exposure to teacher pay-for-performance programs on adult outcomes. We construct a comprehensive data set of schools which have implemented teacher performance pay programs across the United States since 1986, and use our data to calculate the fraction of...

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Friends with Benefits : Analyzing the Implications of United States v. Newman for the Future of Insider Trading

Paul, Tebsy - 2018

In the 2014 case United States v. Newman, a federal appeals court vacated convictions of insider trading and dismissed the indictments against two former hedge fund traders, Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson. In overturning their convictions, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second...

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High Technology, Consumer Privacy, and U.S. National Security

Donohiue, Laura K. - 2018

It could be argued that some of these effects, such as data localization initiatives, are merely opportunistic-i.e., other countries are merely using the NSA revelations to advance national commercial and political interests. Even if true, however, the NSA programs provide other countries with...

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The Expanding Reach of the Executive in Foreign Direct Investment : How Ralls v. CFIUS Will after the FDI Landscape in the United States

Deeley, Hunter - 2018

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS" or the "Committee") is a little known regulatory body in the Treasury Department with an almost limitless mandate: protect the nation's security from threats arising from Foreign Direct Investment ("FDI"). CFIUS began through...

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The NSA’s Prism Program and the New EU Privacy Regulation : Why U.S. Companies With a Presence in the EU Could Be in Trouble

Tariq, Juhi - 2018

Recent revelations about a clandestine data surveillance program operated by the NSA, Planning Tool for Resource Integration, Synchronization, and Management ("PRISM"), and a stringent proposed European Union ("EU") data protection regulation, will place U.S. companies with a business presence...

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