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Trade, FDI, and the Organization of Firms

Helpman, Elhanan - 2006

New developments in the world economy have triggered research designed to better understand the changes in trade and investment patterns, and the reorganization of production across national borders. Although traditional trade theory has much to offer in explaining parts of this puzzle, other...

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Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure

Antràs, Pol - 2003

Roughly one-third of world trade is intrafirm trade. This paper starts by unveiling two systematic patterns in the volume of intrafirm trade. In a panel of industries, the share of intrafirm imports in total U.S. imports is significantly higher, the higher the capital intensity of the exporting...

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The organization of firms across countries

Bloom, Nicholas - 2009

We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity through facilitating greater firm decentralization. We collect original data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production and sales decisions from Corporate Head Quarters...

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Towards a Legal Theory of the Firm : The Effects of Enterprise Liability on Asset Partitioning, Decentralization and Corporate Group Growth

Belenzon, Sharon - 2018

, we construct a novel country-level measure of enterprise liability, the propensity of courts to hold an entire group …, we examine how enterprise liability affects firm boundaries, internal organization, and corporate group growth. We find … that in countries where enterprise liability is weaker, groups tend to partition their assets more finely into distinct …

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The governance of not-for-profit organizations

Glaeser, Edward L. (ed.) - 2003

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Understanding and Misunderstanding Randomized Controlled Trials

Deaton, Angus - 2016

RCTs would be more useful if there were more realistic expectations of them and if their pitfalls were better recognized. For example, and contrary to many claims in the applied literature, randomization does not equalize everything but the treatment across treatments and controls, it does not...

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Do Field Experiments on Labor and Housing Markets Overstate Discrimination? A Re-examination of the Evidence

Neumark, David - 2016

There have been over 80 field experiments on traditional dimensions of discrimination in labor and housing markets since 2000, in 23 countries. These studies nearly always find evidence of discrimination against minorities. However, the estimates of discrimination in these studies can be biased...

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The 'Pupil' Factory : Specialization and the Production of Human Capital in Schools

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2016

Starting in the 2013-2014 school year, I conducted a randomized field experiment in fifty traditional public elementary schools in Houston, Texas designed to test the potential productivity benefits of teacher specialization in schools. Treatment schools altered their schedules to have teachers...

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Field Experiments on Discrimination

Bertrand, Marianne - 2016

This article reviews the existing field experimentation literature on the prevalence of discrimination, the consequences of such discrimination, and possible approaches to undermine it. We highlight key gaps in the literature and ripe opportunities for future field work. Section 1 reviews the...

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Do Natural Field Experiments Afford Researchers More or Less Control than Laboratory Experiments? A Simple Model

Al-Ubaydli, Omar - 2015

A commonly held view is that laboratory experiments provide researchers with more "control" than natural field experiments, and that this advantage is to be balanced against the disadvantage that laboratory experiments are less generalizable. This paper presents a simple model that explores...

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