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Actors in various settings have been increasingly relying on algorithmic tools to support their decision-making. Much of the public debate concerning algorithms - especially the associated regulation of new technologies - rests on the assumption that humans can assess the quality of algorithms....
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This study investigates the economic implications of blockchain-based academic journals, proposed by the recent computer science literature, in which authors and referees are individually incentivized. We construct a model in which the journal publishes qualified papers under two types of...
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Investors face a dizzying array of choices regarding where to invest their funds and increasingly rely on experts for advice. Most advice about securities is provided by investment advisers or broker-dealers, legal categories with little meaning to most people but fraught with consequences....
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The importance of investment advisers to the financial well-being of their clients cannot be overstated. Individuals and institutions entrust trillions of dollars to investment advisers to manage on their behalf. This paper discusses and explains fiduciary principles in investment advice....
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This Article provides the first sustained account of advice-giving as a fiduciary activity, and it demonstrates that the dominant approach to defining fiduciary relationships is flawed. Leading academic commentators assert that fiduciary relationships only arise when one party has discretion...
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monotone, i.e., high-productivity enterprises integrate while the low-productivity ones stay separate. Product market price can …
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This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and productivity growth in the long run …
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This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and productivity growth in the long run …
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This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and productivity growth in the long run …
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The results of this paper challenge the conventional wisdom in the literature that productivity plays no role in the … productivity growth is twice as large as the conventional total factor productivity (TFP) measures. Using a standard growth … productivity growth, Hsieh (1999) challenged Young's findings using the dual approach. But all of these papers maintained the …
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