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Movies
Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...
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The Privacy Elasticity of Behavior : Conceptualization and Application
Dekel, Inbal; Cummings, Rachel; Heffetz, Ori; Ligett, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We propose and initiate the study of privacy elasticity--the responsiveness of economic variables to small changes in the level of privacy given to participants in an economic system. Individuals rarely experience either full privacy or a complete lack of privacy; we propose to use differential...
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A Historical Test of the Tiebout Hypothesis : Local Heterogeneity from 1850 to 1990
Rhode, Paul W. - 2000
The Tiebout hypothesis, which states that individuals will costlessly sort themselves across local communities according to their public good preferences, is the workhorse of the local public finance literature. This paper develops a test of the Tiebout hypothesis using historical variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470790
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Endogenous Pricing to Market and Financing Costs
Aizenman, Joshua - 2000
the deviations from relative PPP. If the expected discounted cost of last minute delivery is higher than pre-buying, one … them from the adverse purchasing power consequences of weak terms of trade. Higher financing costs increase the cost of pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470823
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The Supply of Quality in Child Care Centers
Blau, David M. - 1999
We use data from a sample of day care centers to estimate the relationships between cost and the quality of the child … development. Taking the estimated cost-quality and revenue-quality relationships as given, we then estimate the objective … functions of the firms and compute the supply function for quality. The results indicate that (1) the estimated cost function is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471564
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The Costs of Annuitizing Retirement Payouts from Individual Accounts
Poterba, James M. - 1999
This paper presents new evidence on the costs of purchasing private annuity contracts to spread a given stock of assets over an uncertain future lifetime. It also describes the operation of individual annuity arrangements within two large group retirement saving plans. First presents information...
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Expandability, Reversibility, and Optimal Capacity Choice
Dixit, Avinash K. - 1998
We develop continuous-time models of capacity choice when demand fluctuates stochastically, and the firm's opportunities to expand or contract are limited. Specifically consider costs of investing or disinvesting that vary with time, or with the amount of capacity already installed. The firm's...
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Stylized Facts of Patent Litigation : Value, Scope and Ownership
Lanjouw, Jean O. - 1997
This paper investigates the characteristics of litigated patents by combining for the first" time information about patent case filings from the U.S. district courts and detailed data from the" U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. We construct a series of indicators for the factors which the"...
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The Costs of Hiring and Separations
Abowd, John M. - 1997
In this article, we estimate the costs of hiring, separation, and retirement of employees for a representative sample of French establishments in 1992. The estimates are computed using data from three sources: the Wage Structure Survey (ESS), the Workforce Movement Questionnaire (DMMO), and the...
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Airline Hubs : Costs, Markups and the Implications of Customer Heterogeneity
Berry, Steven - 1996
a `monopoly umbrella' to other non-hub airlines. Finally, on the cost side there is evidence of economies of density … (and therefore cost economies of hubbing) on longer routes. Consistent with the `Southwest Airlines' effect, there is no …
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