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equilibrium seems to be largest when selection among heterogenous firms is needed most, that is, when there are relatively many …
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We study the incentives to improve ability in a model where heterogeneous firms and workers interact in a labor market characterized by matching frictions and costly screening. When effort in improving ability raises both the mean and the variance of the resulting ability distribution, multiple...
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dispersion forces in the presence of pecuniary externalities through a selection model of monopolistic competition with … `evenness'. Accordingly, the role of firm heterogeneity in selection models of agglomeration can not be fully understood without …
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locational fundamentals, agglomeration economies, the spatial sorting of heterogeneous agents, and selection effects affect the …
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This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a prospective payment system of the DRG type. Given that prices typically reflect past average costs, we use a discrete-time dynamic framework. Patients differ in severity...
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next election as an indicator. Self-selection yields welfare optimality as officeholders are encouraged to invest in those …
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We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (tfp) using a new global firm-level database. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the difference in the amount of foreign investment by financial and industrial investors and simultaneously controlling...
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driven by selection into marriage at younger ages, while there might be a protective effect of marriage at older ages. We … analyze how selection and protective effects of marriage show up in the data. …
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This paper studies aggregate dynamics in a cobweb model where learning takes place through a selection mecanism, by … in a way that favors the most profitable firm types. Selection may be inadequate because firms are being selected on the … basis of incorrect market signals. Selection itself may reinforce such mispricing, thus generating instability. I compare …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced by returnees since overseas migration provides an opportunity for human and physical capital...
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