On the Foundations of Competitive Search Equilibrium with and without Market Makers

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The literature offers two foundations for competitive search equilibrium, a Nash approach and a market-maker approa

Human Capital Investment and Development: The Role of On-the-Job Training

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Workers in richer countries experience faster rates of wage growth over their lifetimes than workers in poorer co

Learning by Exporting and Wage Profiles: New Evidence from Brazil

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Export activity shapes workers’ experience-wage profiles Using detailed Brazil-ian manufacturing employer-employe

Learning about the Consumption Risk Exposure of Firms

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We structurally estimate an investment-based asset pricing model, where firms’ exposure to macroeconomic risk

Delayed Crises and Slow Recoveries

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We present a rational expectations model of credit-driven crises In our model econ-omy, banks can operate in two

Political Connections, Competition, and Innovation: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Chinese Firms

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This paper studies the causal impact of political connections on innovation Using a unique hand-collected data se

Search, Screening and Sorting

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We investigate the effect of search frictions on labor market sorting by constructing a model which is in line

Meetings and Mechanisms

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There exists a lot of variation in terms of how buyers and sellers meet, both across sectors and over time as

The Legal Origins of Financial Development: Evidence from the Shanghai Concessions

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We assemble new data on the British and French concessions in Shanghai between 1845 and 1936 to assess the lega

The Allocation of Talent and Financial Development, 1897 to 1936

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We examine how the supply of talent affected financial development, based on a historical experiment that abruptly