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Worker Heterogeneity and the Effect of Noncompetes on Firm Performance

open access: yesJournal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using staggered state‐level changes in noncompete enforceability, we document that reduced enforcement increases profitability, valuation, productivity, and plant‐level growth in knowledge‐worker‐intensive firms relative to other firms. Critically, these gains are concentrated among the most productive knowledge‐worker firms, consistent with ...
Zhaozhao He, Modupe Babajide Wintoki
wiley   +1 more source

When attentive insider trading matters: Evidence from government investment

open access: yesJournal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine whether insiders can exploit public information to increase their trading profitability. By exploiting, as a quasi‐natural experiment, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), announced in the U.S. in March 2021 and implemented in November 2021, we provide evidence that insiders earn higher profits when government investment plans ...
Dimitris Petmezas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Welfare and Distributional Consequences of Corporate Tax Cuts in Open Economies

open access: yesJournal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract We develop an open‐economy heterogeneous household model with incomplete markets to quantitatively evaluate the welfare and distributional effects—both within and across countries—of the corporate tax cut (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, TCJA) implemented in the U.S. in 2017. The model allows for examining outcomes under various possibilities including
MAMOON KADER   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Partisan Entrepreneurship

open access: yesThe Journal of Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Republicans start more firms than Democrats. In a sample of 40 million party‐identified Americans between 2005 and 2017, we find that 5.5% of Republicans and 3.7% of Democrats become entrepreneurs. This partisan entrepreneurship gap is time‐varying—Republicans increase their relative entrepreneurship during Republican administrations and ...
JOSEPH ENGELBERG   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence and convergence to higher standards: The dual examination of pharmaceutical patents in Brazil

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Between 2001 and 2021, pharmaceutical patent applications filed in Brazil were examined by the patent office (INPI) and the national health regulator (Anvisa). This paper investigates how health regulators can contribute to patent examination by shifting the set of criteria cited as grounds for 2589 negative decisions from both entities ...
Eduardo Mercadante
wiley   +1 more source

Engineering smallholder common bean cropping systems with flowering plants increases hoverfly populations and crop yields. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Insect Sci
Kaliwo Y   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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