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Resource Allocation under Income Disparity and Valuation Heterogeneity : Rethinking the Community Solar Business Model

Singh, Siddharth Prakash; Wu, Owen Q. - 2023

can create significant welfare improvements. More generally, in resource allocation problems with income and valuation …

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Right Idea, Wrong Place? Knowledge Diffusion and Spatial Misallocation in R&D

Williams, Trevor - 2023

A few cities perform a high share of research and development (R&D) in the United States. If R&D generates local knowledge spillovers, then the social returns to R&D may vary across cities and the geographic distribution of researchers may be inefficient. Equally important, but less well...

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Decentralization and Spatial (Mis-)Allocation of Irrigation Water

Das, Sabyasachi; Dutta, Souvik - 2023

This paper examines the consequence of decentralization in the management of canal irrigation for spatial allocation of water and agricultural performance. Under centralized management, farmers closer to the canal tend to over-extract water, resulting in spatial mis-allocation. We test whether...

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Service Matters : Capital Misallocation and Sectoral Economic Growth

Choi, Woo Jin; Roh, Woo Jin - 2023

Growth of the Korean economy has been sluggish, and this situation is more pronounced in the service sector. We argue that capital misallocation, especially in the service sector, could contribute to this slowdown. Utilizing firm and sectoral level data, first we assess the rising dispersion of...

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Political Connections Cause Resource Misallocation : Evidence from the Fall of Fascism in Italy

Faccio, Mara; McConnell, John J. - 2023

The fall of fascism in Italy in 1943-1944 was followed by the issuance of laws and decrees that made former fascist politicians ineligible for political office. We use this setting as a quasi-natural experiment that exogenously disrupted then prevalent corporate political connections. We find...

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Capital Allocation Rules and Generalized Collapse to the Mean

Centrone, Francesca; Rosazza Gianin, Emanuela - 2023

In the context of capital allocation principles for (not necessarily coherent) risk measures, we derive - under mild conditions - some representation results as ``collapse to the mean'' in a generalized sense. This approach is related to the well-known Gradient allocation and allows to extend a...

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Efficiency of Resource Allocation in Multibusiness Firms : Theory and Evidence

Tag, Mehmet - 2023

This chapter reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the efficiency of resource allocation in multibusiness … firms. The chapter proceeds by discussing the differences between resource allocation in markets vs. firm hierarchies in … section 2. This discussion establishes the costs and benefits of internal resource allocation (i.e., allocation in …

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Market Structure, Resource Allocation, and Industry Productivity Growth : Firm-Level Evidence from China’Ssteel Industry

Sheng, Yu; Xu, Xinpeng; Rozelle, Scott - 2023

Market reforms can improve a country’s aggregate productivity growth by reallocating resources from the less to more productive firms. However, not all market reforms end up generating the intended resource reallocation effect. This paper investigates how regional monopolies have limited the...

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Allocation of Support Department Costs, Shared Costs, and Revenue On Batik

Alvian Sesa, Gielvis; Linata, Agnes Pricilia; … - 2023

Cost allocation is one of the important issues in cost accounting. How are the costs incurred allocated to cost objects, such as products, customer groups, activities, and divisions? Companies usually distinguish between operating departments and supporting departments. Operating department is a...

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Search frictions in international goods markets

Lenoir, Clémence; Martin, Julien; Méjean, Isabelle - In: Journal of the European Economic Association : JEEA 21 (2023) 1, pp. 326-366

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