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作者：Sevuk, Baris
作者单位：University of Bologna
摘要：Fumagalli and Motta (The Economic Journal, 2008) argued that competition among downstream buyers limits the ability of a dominant upstream firm to deter entry by a more efficient competitor. This comment demonstrates that the impact of downstream competition is, in fact, more complex. In particular, competition can motivate buyers to favour the incumbent due to a 'raising rivals' cost' effect.
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作者：Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Marcolin, Luca; Ornelas, Emanuel
作者单位：ESSEC Business School; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD); Getulio Vargas Foundation; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：Service inputs significantly influence export costs and firm internationalisation. A new dataset on French firms' participation in global value chains reveals that experienced exporters are more likely to source services at destination and within their group. We rationalise these facts in a model where firms are initially uncertain about their export profitability and learn it while selling abroad. The effect is amplified in uncertain markets and in the presence of frictions to domestic sourci...
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作者：Kerwin, Jason T.
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：This paper shows that responses to disease risks can be 'fatalistic': higher risk beliefs can lead to more risk-taking rather than less. Intuitively, this can occur because high risk beliefs raise not only the chance of contracting the disease (which raises the marginal cost of risk-taking), but also the perceived chance that you are already infected (which lowers the marginal cost). I test for fatalism by randomly providing information about the true (low) average risk of HIV transmission in ...
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作者：Gagliarducci, Stefano; Tabellini, Marco
作者单位：Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Rome Tor Vergata
摘要：We study the effects of ethnic religious organisations on immigrant assimilation, assembling novel data on Italian Catholic churches across US counties between 1890 and 1920. Exploiting variation in the timing of church entry, we find that Italian churches reduced social and economic assimilation along dimensions that require more inter-group interactions, but had null or positive effects on outcomes for which cross-group coordination is less important. We provide evidence that coordination wi...
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作者：Dillon, Brian; Aker, Jenny C.; Blumenstock, Joshua E.
作者单位：Cornell University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We study the impact of a low-cost intervention to reduce information frictions in rural markets by randomly assigning small and medium enterprises in Tanzania to be listed in a telephone directory. The listed firms expand their communication networks, increase sales and make greater use of mobile money, with positive spillovers to firms in the same village. Estimated effects are larger and more statistically precise for firms that are more productive at baseline, consistent with consumers seek...
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作者：Hanlon, W. Walker
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：How did the Industrial Revolution generate sustained economic growth? One hypothesis is that the innovation system changed. This paper provides direct quantitative evidence documenting this fundamental change in the innovation system: the emergence of a new type of inventor, the professional engineer. Using rich patent, biographical and other data, I document the emergence of the engineering profession starting in the late eighteenth century and show that engineers differed from older types of...
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作者：Brandts, Jordi; Cooper, David J.
作者单位：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); CSIC - Institut d'Analisi Economica (IAE); Barcelona School of Economics; University of Iowa; University of East Anglia
摘要：We study the manager-agent game, a novel coordination game played between a manager and two agents. Unlike commonly studied coordination games, the manager-agent game stresses asymmetric information (agents know the state of the world, but managers do not) and asymmetric payoffs (for all states of the world, agents have opposing preferences over outcomes). Efficient coordination requires coordinating agents' actions and utilising their private information. We vary how agents' actions are chose...
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作者：Wagner, Zachary; Moucheraud, Corrina; Shah, Manisha; Wollum, Alexandra; Friedman, Willa; Dow, William H.
作者单位：University of Southern California; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：Bias among health care providers can lead to poor-quality care and poor health outcomes, and it can exacerbate disparities. We use a randomised controlled trial to evaluate an intervention to reduce family planning provider bias towards young women in 227 clinics in Tanzania, Burkina Faso and Pakistan. The intervention educated providers about bias towards young women, facilitated communication about bias with other providers and offered non-financial public awards to clinics with the least bi...
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作者：Ang, Geer; Qin, Yu; Tan, Ya; Zhang, Fan
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; National University of Singapore; University of International Business & Economics; Jinan University
摘要：In China, employment in the civil service is perceived as a primary path to leadership roles in government. This paper examines the role of family background in shaping the choice to enter the civil service and investigates the impact of the 2012 anti-corruption campaign on this process. We find that college graduates with cadre parents are more likely to work as a civil servant. However, using a difference-in-differences approach, we show an 18% decline in this occupational persistence post-c...
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作者：Cassidy, Traviss
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
摘要：I exploit unusual policy variation in Indonesia to examine how local responses to intergovernmental grants depend on their persistence. A national reform generated permanent increases in the general grant that were larger for less densely populated districts, while hydrocarbon-rich districts experienced transitory shocks to shared resource revenue. Public service delivery strongly responded to the permanent shock, but not to the transitory shocks, consistent with districts providing lumpy publ...
