This paper considers a random search model where some locations provide sellers with better chances of meeting many buyers than other locations (for example popular shopping streets or the first page of a search engine) When sellers are heterogeneous

We examine how search frictions impact labor market sorting by constructing a model consistent with recent evidence that employers collect a pool of applicants before interviewing a subset We derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for sorti

Our study elucidates the idiosyncratic volatility puzzle, the observed negative correlation between past idiosyncratic volatility and stock returns, by examining firms optimal decisions to buyversus- lease capital We find that firms with elevated

We study whether climate-related innovation leads to carbon emission reductions by analyzing supply chain networks We find that climate innovation reduces carbon emissions at customer firms, but only for the supplier firm s product innovation patents,

It is not feasible to reserve a fraction of a seat, therefore to respect the spirit of affirmative action the Indian reservation system adheres to a rotating system of seat claiming, commonly referred to as a roster Developing a roster involves addres

Using scandals involving US congresspersons over the period 1992-2018, we investigate the reputational spillover effect between scandal-tainted congresspersons and politically-connected firms Following the first media report of a scandal, firms connec

We examine how the exemption of short sale uptick tests due to the Regulation SHO pilot program affects managers’ decisions to abandon value-reducing acquisition attempts We find that when deciding whether to abandon value-reducing acquisition attem

This paper focuses on estimating the coefficients and average partial effects of observed regressors in nonlinear panel data models with interactive fixed effects, using the common correlated effects (CCE, hereafter) framework The proposed two-step estim

Export activity shapes workers’ experience-wage profiles Using detailed employer-employee and customs data for Brazilian manufacturing, we document that workers’ experience-wage profiles are steeper at exporters than at non-exporters and, among ex

This paper considers the one-way trading problem with fixed costs where the trader can only trade in one direction throughout, either sell or buy, and he only knows limited information on price fluctuations beforehand We construct a robust optimization m