NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Microeconomics

Production and Organizations


2009
w15545 Alex Edmans
Xavier Gabaix

Tractability in Incentive Contracting

w15489 James D. Adams
J. Roger Clemmons

The Role of Search in University Productivity: Inside, Outside, and Interdisciplinary Dimensions

w15324 Alex Edmans
Xavier Gabaix
Tomasz Sadzik
Yuliy Sannikov

Dynamic Incentive Accounts

w15298 Stefano DellaVigna
Matthew Gentzkow

Persuasion: Empirical Evidence

w15167 Philippe Aghion
Drew Fudenberg
Richard T. Holden

Subgame Perfect Implementation with Almost Perfect Information and the Hold-Up Problem

w15152 Loren Brandt
Johannes Van Biesebroeck
Yifan Zhang

Creative Accounting or Creative Destruction? Firm-level Productivity Growth in Chinese Manufacturing

w15060 Ryan Kellogg
Learning by Drilling: Inter-Firm Learning and Relationship Persistence in the Texas Oilpatch

w15019 Kathryn Graddy
George Hall

A Dynamic Model of Price Discrimination and Inventory Management at the Fulton Fish Market

w14886 Kathleen J. Mullen
Richard G. Frank
Meredith B. Rosenthal

Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers

w14855 Patrick Bajari
Gregory Lewis

Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives: Theory and Evidence

w14764 Roland Bénabou
Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets

w14642 James E. Anderson
Gravity, Productivity and the Pattern of Production and Trade

w14632 Albert Park
Dean Yang
Xinzheng Shi
Yuan Jiang

Exporting and Firm Performance: Chinese Exporters and the Asian Financial Crisis


2008
w14613 Oliver Hart
Bengt Holmstrom

A Theory of Firm Scope

w14594 Bronwyn H. Hall
Francesca Lotti
Jacques Mairesse

Innovation and Productivity in SMEs: Empirical Evidence for Italy

w14575 James D. Adams
J. Roger Clemmons

The NBER-Rensselaer Scientific Papers Database: Form, Nature, and Function

w14477 Alla Lileeva
Johannes Van Biesebroeck

Outsourcing when Investments are Specific and Complementary

w14339 Patrick Bolton
Markus K. Brunnermeier
Laura Veldkamp

Leadership, Coordination and Mission-Driven Management

w14262 Pol Antrās
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Organizations and Trade

w14216 Rupert Harrison
Jordi Jaumandreu
Jacques Mairesse
Bettina Peters

Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries

w14212 Randall D. Cebul
James B. Rebitzer
Lowell J. Taylor
Mark Votruba

Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Health Care System

w14195 Steven N. Kaplan
Mark M. Klebanov
Morten Sorensen

Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?

w14190 Jean Boivin
Marc P. Giannoni
Benoît Mojon

How Has the Euro Changed the Monetary Transmission?

w14183 Yeon-Koo Che
Kathryn E. Spier

Strategic Judgment Proofing

w14140 Ulrike Malmendier
Geoffrey Tate

Superstar CEOs

w14122 Elhanan Helpman
Oleg Itskhoki
Stephen Redding

Wages, Unemployment and Inequality with Heterogeneous Firms and Workers

w14121 Robert E. Lipsey
Measuring the Location of Production in a World of Intangible Productive Assets, FDI, and Intrafirm Trade

w14116 Eric Bond
James R. Tybout
Hâle Utar

Credit Rationing, Risk Aversion and Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries

w14108 Maria Elena Bontempi
Jacques Mairesse

Intangible Capital and Productivity: An Exploration on a Panel of Italian Manufacturing Firms

w14000 Boyan Jovanovic
When Should Firms Invest in Old Capital?

w13975 Sabien Dobbelaere
Jacques Mairesse

Panel Data Estimates Of The Production Function And Product And Labor Market Imperfections

w13823 James D. Adams
J. Roger Clemmons

The Origins of Industrial Scientific Discoveries

w13732 Efraim Benmelech
Eugene Kandel
Pietro Veronesi

Stock-Based Compensation and CEO (Dis)Incentives

w13730 John A. Romley
Dana Goldman

How Costly Is Hospital Quality? A Revealed-Preference Approach

w13725 Eli Berman
David D. Laitin

Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model


2007
w13705 Luis Garicano
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Organizing Growth

w13701 Lucian A. Bebchuk
Martijn Cremers
Urs Peyer

CEO Centrality

w13666 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Using Firm Optimization to Evaluate and Estimate Returns to Scale

w13647 Andres Almazan
Javier Suarez
Sheridan Titman

Firms' Stakeholders and the Costs of Transparency

w13582 Rene Boeheim
Ana Rute Cardoso

Temporary Help Services Employment in Portugal, 1995-2000

w13579 Geoffrey Heal
Howard Kunreuther

Social Reinforcement: Cascades, Entrapment and Tipping

w13570 Ulrike Malmendier
Geoffrey Tate
Jonathan Yan

Corporate Financial Policies With Overconfident Managers

w13540 Oliver Hart
Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points

w13481 Oliver D. Hart
Reference Points and the Theory of the Firm

w13473 Bronwyn H. Hall
Measuring the Returns to R&D: The Depreciation Problem

w13426 Bronwyn H. Hall
Grid Thoma
Salvatore Torrisi

The market value of patents and R&D: Evidence from European firms

w13372 Alex Edmans
Xavier Gabaix
Augustin Landier

A Calibratable Model of Optimal CEO Incentives in Market Equilibrium

w13351 Giulia Faggio
Kjell Salvanes
John Van Reenen

The Evolution of Inequality in Productivity and Wages: Panel Data Evidence

w13350 Jonathan Levin
Steven Tadelis

Contracting for Government Services: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities

w13298 Tae Okada
Charles Yuji Horioka

A Comment on Nishimura, Nakajima, and Kiyota's "Does the natural selection mechanism still work in severe recessions? Examination of the Japanese economy in the 1990s"

w13296 Bronwyn H. Hall
Francesca Lotti
Jacques Mairesse

Employment, Innovation, and Productivity: Evidence from Italian Microdata

w13294 Petra Moser
Why Don't Inventors Patent?

w13269 Jeffrey I. Bernstein
Theofanis P. Mamuneas

Irreversible Investment, Capital Costs and Productivity Growth: Implications for Telecommunications

w13267 Oren Bar-Gill
Lucian A. Bebchuk

Consent and Exchange

w13226 Steven J. Davis
John Haltiwanger
Ron S. Jarmin
C. J. Krizan
Javier Miranda
Alfred Nucci
Kristin Sandusky

Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses: Integrating the Employer and Nonemployer Universes

w13172 Sinan Aral
Erik Brynjolfsson
Marshall Van Alstyne

Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence

w13156 Lisa M. Lynch
The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy

w13138 Alexandre Mas
Labor Unrest and the Quality of Production: Evidence from the Construction Equipment Resale Market

w13126 Markus Mobius
Adam Szeidl

Trust and Social Collateral

w13063 Sadao Nagaoka
Akira Takeishi
Yoshihisa Noro

Determinants of Firm Boundaries: Empirical Analysis of the Japanese Auto Industry from 1984 to 2002

w13015 Susan Helper
Morris M. Kleiner

International Differences in Lean Production, Productivity and Employee Attitudes

w12968 Margaret K. Kyle
Strategic Responses to Parallel Trade

w12910 Efraim Benmelech
Claude Berrebi

Attack Assignments in Terror Organizations and The Productivity of Suicide Bombers

w12894 Ali Hortacsu
Chad Syverson

Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices

w12824 Jean Boivin
Marc Giannoni
Ilian Mihov

Sticky Prices and Monetary Policy: Evidence from Disaggregated U.S. Data

w12815 Luis Garicano
Thomas N. Hubbard

The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies


2006
w12811 Lucian A. Bebchuk
Yaniv Grinstein
Urs Peyer

Lucky Directors

w12771 Lucian A. Bebchuk
Yaniv Grinstein
Urs Peyer

Lucky CEOs

w12757 Amil Petrin
Jagadeesh Sivadasan

Job Security Does Affect Economic Efficiency: Theory, A New Statistic, and Evidence from Chile

w12747 Pol Antrās
Elhanan Helpman

Contractual Frictions and Global Sourcing

w12739 Holger M. Mueller
Thomas Philippon

Family Firms, Paternalism, and Labor Relations

w12706 Oliver Hart
John Moore

Contracts as Reference Points

w12539 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Importation and Innovation

w12459 James D. Adams
Roger Clemmons

Science and Industry: Tracing the Flow of Basic Research through Manufacturing and Trade

w12455 Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Contractual Tradeoffs and SMEs Choice of Organizational Form, A View from U.S. and French History, 1830-2000

w12422 Kyoji Fukao
Keiko Ito
Hyeog Ug Kwon
Miho Takizawa

Cross-Border Acquisitions and Target Firms' Performance: Evidence From Japanese Firm-Level Data

w12365 Xavier Gabaix
Augustin Landier

Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?

w12354 Steven J. Davis
John Haltiwanger
Ron Jarmin
Javier Miranda

Volatility and Dispersion in Business Growth Rates: Publicly Traded versus Privately Held Firms

w12318 James Heckman
Contributions of Zvi Griliches

w12293 Andrew B. Bernard
Stephen J. Redding
Peter K. Schott

Multi-Product Firms and Product Switching

w12251 Zeynep Hansen
Hideo Owan
Jie Pan

The Impact of Group Diversity on Performance and Knowledge Spillover -- An Experiment in a College Classroom

w12196 Pol Antrās
Luis Garicano
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Organizing Offshoring: Middle Managers and Communication Costs

w12094 Michael R. Darby
Lynne G. Zucker

Innovation, Competition and Welfare-Enhancing Monopoly

w12091 Elhanan Helpman
Trade, FDI, and the Organization of Firms

w12068 Dirk Jenter
Fadi Kanaan

CEO Turnover and Relative Performance Evaluation

w12051 Patrick Bajari
Stephanie Houghton
Steve Tadelis

Bidding for Incomplete Contracts: An Empirical Analysis


2005
w11908 Lee J. Alston
Jeffery A. Jenkins
Tomas Nonnenmacher

Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and the Salary Grab of 1873

w11907 Lucian A. Bebchuk
Robert J. Jackson
Jr.

Executive Pensions

w11892 Marianne Bertrand
Dean Karlin
Sendhil Mullainathan
Eldar Shafir
Jonathan Zinman

What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market

w11886 Lucian Bebchuk
Yaniv Grinstein

Firm Expansion and CEO Pay

w11870 Adam Copeland
George Hall

The Response of Prices, Sales, and Output to Temporary Changes in Demand

w11801 Dale W. Jorgenson
Kazuyuki Motohashi

Information Technology and the Japanese Economy

w11800 Dale W. Jorgenson
Koji Nomura

The Industry Origins of Japanese Economic Growth

w11780 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Steven Shavell

The Theory of Public Enforcement of Law

w11575 Peter K. Schott
Andrew B. Bernard
Stephen J. Redding

Products and Productivity

w11458 Luis Garicano
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Organization and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy

w11443 Lucian Bebchuk
Yaniv Grinstein

The Growth of Executive Pay

w11373 Jiro Nemoto
Mika Goto

Productivity, Efficiency, Scale Economies and Technical Change: A New Decomposition Analysis

w11356 Daron Acemoglu
Pol Antrās
Elhanan Helpman

Contracts and the Division of Labor

w11322 Lu Zhang
Anomalies

w11292 Josh Lerner
Ulrike Malmendier

Contractibility and the Design of Research Agreements

w11273 Lee J. Alston
Bernardo Mueller

Pork for Policy: Executive and Legislative Exchange in Brazil

w11261 Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Mark L.J. Wright

Firm Size Dynamics in the Aggregate Economy

w11257 Adam Copeland
Wendy Dunn
George Hall

Prices, Production and Inventories over the Automotive Model Year

w11172 Jacques Mairesse
Laure Turner

Measurement and Explanation of the Intensity of Co-publication in Scientific Research: An Analysis at the Laboratory Level

w11094 Pol Antrās
Luis Garicano
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy


2004
w11001 Kira Markiewicz
Nancy L. Rose
Catherine Wolfram

Do Markets Reduce Costs? Assessing the Impact of Regulatory Restructuring on U.S. Electric Generation Efficiency

w10922 Diego Comin
Sunil Mulani

Diverging Trends in Macro and Micro Volatility: Facts

w10857 Robert C. Feenstra
Christopher R. Knittel

Re-Assessing the U.S. Quality Adjustment to Computer Prices: The Role of Durability and Changing Software

w10819 Stefano DellaVigna
Ulrike Malmendier

Overestimating Self_Control: Evidence from the Health Club Industry

w10812 Ulrike Malmendier
Devin Shanthikumar

Are Investors Naive About Incentives?

w10807 Ulrike Malmendier
Geoffrey Tate

CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Investment

w10742 Lucian Arye Bebchuk
Jesse M. Fried

Stealth Compensation Via Retirement Benefits

w10732 Simon Gilchrist
John C. Williams

Transition Dynamics in Vintage Capital Models: Explaining the Postwar Catch-Up of Germany and Japan

w10674 J. Vernon Henderson
Ari Kuncoro

Corruption in Indonesia

w10584 Raphael Bergoeing
Norman Loayzaw
Andrea Repetto

Slow Recoveries

w10527 Andrew Postlewaite
Larry Samuelson
Dan Silverman

Consumption, Commitmants and Preferences for Risk

w10446 Simon Gilchrist
John C. Williams

Investment, Capacity, and Uncertainty: A Putty-Clay Approach

w10432 Luis Garicano
Thomas N. Hubbard

Hierarchies, Specialization, and the Utilization of Knowledge: Theory and Evidence from the Legal Services Industry

w10397 Oliver Hart
John Moore

Agreeing Now to Agree Later: Contracts that Rule Out but do not Rule In

w10303 Johannes Van Biesebroeck
Robustness of Productivity Estimates

w10279 Johannes Van Biesebroeck
Cross-country Conversion Factors for Sectoral Productivity Comparisons


2003
w10082 Pol Antrās
Elhanan Helpman

Global Sourcing

w10056 Wouter Dessein
Tano Santos

The Demand for Coordination

w10049 Chad Syverson
Product Substitutability and Productivity Dispersion

w10027 Robert S. Huckman
Gary P. Pisano

The Effect of Organizational Context on Individual Performance

w10004 Eli Berman
Hamas, Taliban and the Jewish Underground: An Economist's View of Radical Religious Militias

w9945 Pol Antrās
Incomplete Contracts and the Product Cycle

w9924 Jason G. Cummins
A New Approach to the Valuation of Intangible Capital

w9813 Lucian Arye Bebchuk
Jesse M. Fried

Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

w9802 Daron Acemoglu
Michael Kremer
Atif Mian

Incentives in Markets, Firms and Governments

w9763 Walter Novaes
Luigi Zingales

Bureaucracy as a Mechanism to Generate Information

w9757 Patrick Bajari
Robert S. McMillan
Steve Tadelis

Auctions Versus Negotiations in Procurement: An Empirical Analysis

w9740 Pol Antrās
Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure

w9633 Raghuram Rajan
Julie Wulf

The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies

w9573 Rachel Griffith
Helen Simpson

Characteristics of Foreign-Owned Firms in British Manufacturing

w9478 Raghuram Rajan
Luigi Zingales

The Emergence of Strong Property Rights: Speculation from history


2002
w9295 Sendhil Mullainathan
Andrei Shleifer

Media Bias

w9272 Sung-Bae Mun
M. Ishaq Nadiri

Information Technology Externalities: Empirical Evidence from 42 U.S. Industries

w9267 Hyunbae Chun
M. Ishaq Nadiri

Decomposing Productivity Growth in the U.S. Computer Industry

w9157 Kathleen Carey
Avi Dor

Does Managerial 'Outsourcing' Reduce Expense Preference Behavior? A Comparison of Adopters and Non-Adopters of Contract-Management in US Hospitals

w9120 Lucia Foster
John Haltiwanger
C.J. Krizan

The Link Between Aggregate and Micro Productivity Growth: Evidence from Retail Trade

w9068 Lucian Arye Bebchuk
Jesse M. Fried
David I. Walker

Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

w9026 Andrew B. Bernard
J. Bradford Jensen

The Deaths of Manufacturing Plants

w9024 David Romer
It's Fourth Down and What Does the Bellman Equation Say? A Dynamic Programming Analysis of Football Strategy

w8868 Francine Lafontaine
Emmanuel Raynaud

The Role of Residual Claims and Self-Enforcement in Franchise Contracting

w8859 Francine Lafontaine
Scott E. Masten

Contracting in the Absence of Specific Investments and Moral Hazard: Understanding Carrier-Driver Relations in U.S. Trucking

w8852 Simon Johnson
John McMillan
Christopher Woodruff

Property Rights and Finance

w8811 Daniel Nagin
James Rebitzer
Seth Sanders
Lowell Taylor

Monitoring, Motivation and Management: The Determinants of Opportunistic Behavior in a Field Experiment

w8766 Bee Yan Aw
Sukkyun Chung
Mark J. Roberts

Productivity, Output, and Failure: A Comparison of Taiwanese and Korean Manufacturers

w8752 Allen N. Berger
Nathan H. Miller
Mitchell A. Petersen
Raghuram G. Rajan
Jeremy C. Stein

Does Function Follow Organizational Form? Evidence From the Lending Practices of Large and Small Banks

w8743 Edward N. Wolff
Productivity, Computerization, and Skill Change

w8727 George P. Baker
Thomas N. Hubbard

Make Versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design and Information

w8705 Wayne B. Gray
Ronald J. Shadbegian

When Do Firms Shift Production Across States to Avoid Environmental Regulation?


2001
w8661 Lucian Arye Bebchuk
Jesse M. Fried
David I. Walker

Executive Compensation in America: Optimal Contracting or Extraction of Rents?

w8572 Simon Johnson
John McMillan
Christopher Woodruff

Courts and Relational Contracts

w8525 Thomas N. Hubbard
Information, Decisions, and Productivity: On-Board Computers and Capacity Utilization in Trucking

w8464 Glenn MacDonald
Michael Weisbach

The Economics of Has-Beens

w8367 Luis Garicano
Tano Santos

Referrals

w8349 Andrew B. Bernard
J. Bradford Jensen

Why Some Firms Export

w8342 Jeremy C. Stein
Agency, Information and Corporate Investment

w8286 Oliver Hart
Norms and the Theory of the Firm

w8285 Oliver Hart
Financial Contracting

w8235 Lucian Arye Bebchuk
Omri Ben-Shahar

Pre-Contractual Reliance

w8075 Jacques Mairesse
Nathalie Greenan
Agnes Topiol-Bensaid

Information Technology and Research and Development Impacts on Productivity and Skills: Looking for Correlations on French Firm Level Data


2000
w8017 Luis Garicano
Steven N. Kaplan

The Effects of Business-to-Business E-Commerce on Transaction Costs

w7897 Herschel I. Grossman
The Creation of Effective Property Rights

w7852 Nina Pavcnik
Trade Liberalization, Exit, and Productivity Improvements: Evidence from Chilean Plants

w7718 Jerry G. Thursby
Marie C. Thursby

Who is Selling the Ivory Tower? Sources of Growth in University Licensing

w7702 James E. Anderson
Leslie Young

Trade Implies Law: The Power of the Weak

w7587 Eitan Goldman
Gary Gorton

The Visible Hand, the Invisible Hand and Efficiency

w7546 Raghuram G. Rajan
Luigi Zingales

The Firm as a Dedicated Hierarchy: A Theory of the Origin and Growth of Firms

w7495 Jean O. Lanjouw
Iain Cockburn

Do Patents Matter?: Empirical Evidence after GATT

w7479 Sandra E. Black
Lisa M. Lynch

What's Driving the New Economy: The Benefits of Workplace Innovation


1999
w7388 Oliver Hart
John Moore

On the Design of Hierarchies: Coordination Versus Specialization

w7359 Iain Cockburn
Rebecca Henderson
Scott Stern

The Diffusion of Science-Driven Drug Discovery: Organizational Change in Pharmaceutical Research

w7303 Gene M. Grossman
Elhanan Helpman

Incomplete Contracts and Industrial Organization

w7256 Donald Siegel
David Waldman
Albert Link

Assessing the Impact of Organizational Practices on the Productivity of University Technology Transfer Offices: An Exploratory Study

w7222 Atreya Chakraborty
Mark Kazarosian

Product Differentiation and the Use of Information Technology: New Evidence from the Trucking Industry

w7208 Krishna B. Kumar
Raghuram G. Rajan
Luigi Zingales

What Determines Firm Size?

w7206 Aaron Tornell
Privatizing the Privatized

w7079 M. Ishaq Nadiri
Ingmar R. Prucha

Dynamic Factor Demand Models and Productivity Analysis

w6263 James M. Poterba
The Rate of Return to Corporate Capital and Factor Shares: New EstimatesUsing Revised National Income Accounts and Capital Stock Data

w7054 Gordon H. Hanson
Raymond Robertson
Antonio Spilimbergo

Does Border Enforcement Protect U.S. Workers from Illegal Immigration?

w7053 James E. Rauch
Joel Watson

Starting Small in an Unfamiliar Environment

w7043 Ann P. Bartel
Ann E. Harrison

Ownership versus Environment: Why are Public Sector Firms Inefficient?

w7000 James E. Anderson
Douglas Marcouiller

Trade, Insecurity, and Home Bias: An Empirical Investigation

w5073 Susanto Basu
John G. Fernald

Are Apparent Productive Spillovers a Figment of Specification Error?

w6956 Steven Shavell
Tanguy van Ypersele

Rewards versus Intellectual Property Rights

w6882 Iain Cockburn
Rebecca Henderson
Scott Stern

Balancing Incentives: The Tension Between Basic and Applied Research

w6877 Jeffrey I. Bernstein
Theofanis P. Mamuneas
Panos Pashardes

Factor Adjustment, Quality Change, and Productivity Growth for U.S. Manufacturing


1998
w6851 Scott Stern
Manuel Trajtenberg

Empirical Implications of Physician Authority in Pharmaceutical Decisionmaking

w6830 Marianne Bertrand
Sendhil Mullainathan

Executive Compensation and Incentives: The Impact of Takeover Legislation

w6812 Simon Gilchrist
John C. Williams

Putty-Clay and Investment: A Business Cycle Analysis

w6776 Eli Berman
Linda T.M. Bui

Environmental Regulation and Productivity: Evidence from Oil Refineries

w6775 Valerie A. Ramey
Matthew D. Shapiro

Displaced Capital

w6761 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Sharon M. Oster

Tools or Toys? The Impact of High Technology on Scholarly Productivity

w6726 Oliver Hart
John Moore

Foundations of Incomplete Contracts

w6622 Jeffrey I. Bernstein
David E. M. Sappington

Setting the X Factor in Price Cap Regulation Plans

w6600 Susan Athey
Scott Stern

An Empirical Framework for Testing Theories About Complimentarity in Organizational Design

w6538 Andrew B. Bernard
Joachim Wagner

Export Entry and Exit by German Firms

w6533 Jason G. Cummins
Taxation and the Sources of Growth: Estimates from United States Multinational Corporations

w6475 Jeffrey I. Bernstein
Total Factor Productivity Growth in the Canadian Life Insurance Industry: 1979-1989

w6421 Oliver Hart
John Moore

Cooperatives vs. Outside Ownership

w5081 Robert J. Gordon
Is There a Tradeoff between Unemployment and Productivity Growth?


1997
w6272 Andrew B. Bernard
J. Bradford Jensen

Exceptional Exporter Performance: Cause, Effect, or Both?

w6235 Bee Yan Aw
Xiaomin Chen
Mark J. Roberts

Firm-level Evidence on Productivity Differentials, Turnover, and Exports in Taiwanese Manufacturing

w5705 Robert Gibbons
Incentives and Careers in Organizations

w6121 James Harrigan
Estimation of Cross-Country Differences in Industry

w6120 Sandra E. Black
Lisa M. Lynch

How to Compete: The Impact of Workplace Practices and Information Technology on Productivity

w6118 Michael Kremer
Why are Worker Cooperatives So Rare?

w6109 John M. Abowd
Francis Kramarz

Internal and External Labor Markets: An Analysis of Matched Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data

w6099 James D. Adams
The Structure of Firm R&D and the Factor Intensity of Production

w6086 Aaron S. Edlin
Benjamin E. Hermalin

Contract Renegotiation in Agency Problems

w5401 Jeffrey I. Bernstein
Xiaoyi Yan

International R&D Spillovers between Canadian and Japanese Industries

w5953 William E. Encinosa III
Martin Gaynor
James B. Rebitzer

The Sociology of Groups and the Economics of Incentives: Theory and Evidence on Compensation Systems

w5945 Tor Jakob Klette
Zvi Griliches

Empirical Patterns of Firm Growth and R&D Investment: A Quality Ladder Model Interpretation

w5915 Susanto Basu
Miles S. Kimball

Cyclical Productivity with Unobserved Input Variation

w5907 Oliver Hart
John Moore

Default and Renegotiation: A Dynamic Model of Debt

w5900 Stephen Bond
Julie Elston
Jacques Mairesse
Benoit Mulkay

Financial Factors and Investment in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK:A Comparison Using Company Panel Data

w5887 Robert C. Feenstra
Maria Yang
Gary G. Hamilton

Business Groups and Trade in East Asia: Part 2, Product Variety

w5886 Robert C. Feenstra
Deng-Shing Huang
Gary G. Hamilton

Business Groups and Trade in East Asia: Part 1, Networked Equilibria


1996
w4026 Tor Jakob Klette
Zvi Griliches

The Inconsistency of Common Scale Estimators When Output Prices Are Unobserved and Engogenous

w5817 Bengt Holmstrom
Jean Tirole

Private and Public Supply of Liquidity

t0205 Eric J. Bartelsman
Wayne Gray

The NBER Manufacturing Productivity Database

w5746 Steven Berry
Samuel Kortum
Ariel Pakes

Environmental Change and Hedonic Cost Functions for Automobiles

w5744 Oliver Hart
Andrei Shleifer
Robert W. Vishny

The Proper Scope of Government: Theory and an Application to Prisons

w5471 Ricardo J. Caballero
Mohamad L. Hammour

The "Fundamental Transformation" in Macroeconomics

w5426 Zvi Griliches
Education, Human Capital, and Growth: A Personal Perspective

w5405 Lee J. Alston
Gary D. Libecap
Robert Schneider

The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier


1995
w5382 Susanto Basu
John G. Fernald

Aggregate Productivity and the Productivity of Aggregates

w4460 Martin Gaynor
Gerard F. Anderson

Uncertain Demand, The Structure of Hospital Costs, and the Cost of EmptyHospital Beds

w5293 H. Naci Mocan
The Child Care Industry: Cost Functions, Efficiency, and Quality

w5286 Craig Burnside
Martin Eichenbaum
Sergio Rebelo

Sectoral Solow Residuals

w4886 Oliver Hart
John Moore

Debt and Seniority: An Analysis of the Role of Hard Claims in Constraining Management

w4059 Zvi Griliches
Haim Regev

Productivity and Firm Turnover in Israeli Industry: 1979-1988

w4994 Wayne B. Gray
Ronald J. Shadbegian

Pollution Abatement Costs, Regulation, and Plant-Level Productivity


1994
w3887 M. Ishaq Nadiri
Theofanis P. Mamuneas

The Effects of Public Infrastructure and R&D Capital on the Cost Structure and Performance of U.S. Manufacturing Industries

w4845 M. Ishaq Nadiri
Theofanis P. Mamuneas

Infrastructure and Public R&D Investments, and the Growth of Factor Productivity in US Manufacturing Industries

w4526 Douglas Holtz-Eakin
David Joulfaian
Harvey S. Rosen

Entrepreneurial Decisions and Liquidity Constraints


1993
w4603 Philippe Aghion
Gilles Saint-Paul

Uncovering Some Causal Relationships between Productivity Growth and theStructure of Economic Fluctuations: A Tentative Survey

w4321 Wayne B. Gray
Ronald J. Shadbegian

Environmental Regulation and Manufacturing Productivity at the Plant Level

w4346 Jagadeesh Gokhale
Erica L. Groshen
David Neumark

Do Hostile Takeovers Reduce Extramarginal Wage Payments?

w4309 Jeffrey I. Bernstein
M. Ishaq Nadiri

Production, Financial Structure and Productivity Growth in U.S. Manufacturing


1992
w3979 Jeffrey I. Bernstein
Information Spillovers, Margins, Scale and Scope: With an Application to Canadian Life Insurance

w4101 David Neumark
Steven A. Sharpe

Hostile Takeovers and Expropriation of Extramarginal Wages: A Test

w3977 G. Steven Olley
Ariel Pakes

The Dynamics of Productivity in the Telecommunications Equipment Industry


1991
w3939 David H. Good
M. Ishaq Nadiri
Robin C. Sickles

The Structure of Production, Technical Change and Efficiency in a Multiproduct Industry: An Application to U.S. Airlines

w3842 Ernst R. Berndt
Bengt Hansson

Measuring the Contribution of Public Infrastructure Capital in Sweden

w3841 Ann F. Friedlaender
Ernst R. Berndt
Judy Shaw-Er Wang Chiang
Mark Showalter
Christopher A. Vellturo

Rail Costs and Capital Adjustments in a Quasi-Regulated Environment

w3828 Catherine J. Morrison
Investment in Capital Assets and Economic Performance: The U.S. Chemicals and Primary Metals Industries in Transition

w3810 Eric J. Bartelsman
Ricardo J. Caballero
Richard K. Lyons

Short and Long Run Externalities


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