This paper provides a different way of thinking about, and dealing with, four important issues. First, the overarching purpose of a firm involves communicating a vision, organizing to survive and prosper, working continually to develop win-win relationships, and taking care of future...

Existing standards prohibit disclosures of internally created intangible capital to firm balance sheets, resulting in a downward bias of reported assets. To characterize off-balance sheet intangible assets, we use transaction prices to estimate this missing intangible capital. On average, our...

Current standards prohibit the capitalization of internally created intangibles, resulting in a downward bias of reported assets. We estimate a capitalization model using market prices of intangibles to estimate the parameters of the capital accumulation process. Two settings provide intangible...

In an economy with indivisible goods, a continuum of agents and quasilinear utility, we show that equilibrium exists regardless of the nature of agents' preferences over bundles. This contrasts with results for economies with a finite number of agents, which require restrictions on preferences...

This paper develops a tractable general equilibrium model with multiple market locations in which the interplay between product markets and the market for managerial skills determines both the size distribution of firms and top wage income shares. Despite ex ante symmetry of potential entrants,...

This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity growth. The econometric analysis exploits a new data set on intangible investment (INTAN‐Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a)...

Time is money and money is time, but what is the value of your time? What is the value of a lawful monopoly for twenty years? Over the last several decades, scholars have proposed multifarious theoretical frameworks for patent valuation, but no accepted empirical law has emerged. Further, each...