Questions tagged [firm]
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Why do firms losing money almost always reduce labor costs via layoffs instead of pay cuts?
At least in the United States, firms seem to almost always reduce labor costs via layoffs rather than pay cuts. Pay cuts are so rare that they're literally headline news. From an economic standpoint, ...
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Demand Function
In cost and demand problems, why is the equation for price per unit named the demand function, as shown in the examples below? Also, why is it equal to a constant minus some multiple of the number of ...
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Interchangeability between financial / economic consulting
Writing a market analysis about a company that does debt bundling to lower total cost of debts for its customers. Googled around a tad, seems that financial consulting is in some way different from ...
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Using metrics provided by FRED to identify the business cycle
I am interested to see how the "business cycle" is associated with our firms sales. The hope is that if we can show that our sales line up with the business cycle then we can make decisions ...
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I'm studying the effect of a law on a sector: how do I select the control group?
I'm planning on using a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to estimate the impact of a sector-specific law on the firms in that sector. I need to create a control group and I have read somewhere in ...
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Graduate level texts/notes that cover the Short Run and Long Run Costs of firms' production
In undergrad econ we learned that it would cost a firm more money to increase its production in short term than in long term.
MWG does not seem to cover this topic. I need a Graduate level texts/...
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Why is ATC tangent to Demand in a Monopolistic or Mopolistically Competitive Firm Making Zero Profit?
I understand that the Average Total Cost is equivalent to demand in a zero profiting monopoly or monopolistically competitive firm in order for there to be zero profits (when ATC = P at a given ...
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Optimal production level for a typical firm in long-run
Assuming all firms have identical cost functions. Now suppose there is an increasing shift in the demand curve. As we all know that for increasing costs case, both average costs (AC) and marginal ...
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How are assets distributed by types of organisations? [closed]
How wealth, assets or capital (measured in terms of revenues, assets, equity, etc.) is distributed among the various types of organizations (e.g. State, public companies, private conpanies, ...
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Microeconomics and management science of professional open source companies?
Are there research (and stories more broadly) about professional open source companies? To what types of products their are appropriate, what licensing schemes to choose? How to managed patents and IP?...
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How to model cooperatives
My understanding is that standard models in economics assume the firm is a capitalistic firm, in the sense that it pay workers a wage but no profits. (is that right?)
I am interested in modeling ...
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Is the marginal cost the same for every firm in a perfectly competitive market?
Spin-off from: market equilibrium quantity $\ne$ firm profit maximising quantity?
Consider a perfectly competitive market with equilibrium price $P_{eq}$ and quantity $Q_{eq}$ and firm with profit ...
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market equilibrium quantity $\ne$ firm profit maximising quantity?
Consider a perfectly competitive market with equilibrium price $P_{eq}$ and quantity $Q_{eq}$ and firm with profit maximising quantity $Q_f$ as illustrated below:
I guess any firm in the market would ...
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Aggregation in heterogeneous firms models
I am reading the 2014 annual reviews article by Hopenhayn and am struggling to reach the aggregation results he states in the general case of vector of inputs (let's for simplicity assume two inputs, ...
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What is the difference between knowledge-based and R&D?
So far, I always thought that knowledge-based companies and R&D companies were the same. But recently our TA mentioned that they are different, I've searched a lot to find the differences between ...
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University course references for Market Structure/Industrial Organization
Are there any books that are used in University-level courses that contain a detailed analysis of market structure ( Perfect competition , Monopoly and so on)?
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How to determine the marginal product for the following question? [closed]
Suppose that a firm has a Fixed cost of 10,000 dollars and Total Cost of 10,500 dollars for one unit and 11,100 dollars for two units of output. Which of the following is true for the Marginal Cost (...
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Causes of interlocking directorship connections between firms
I need to interpret some empirical results telling me that firms (intended as profit-maximising entities) prefer to be controlled (e.g. through interlocking directorships) by smaller and less ...
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Academic paper which justifies why companies are run better privately
A few years ago I was reading The Economist and I remember it stated a particular academic paper that underpinned the rationale for the existence of private equity firms. I have tried to find this ...
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Duality of cost minimization and profit maximization
The firm tries to maximize profits $\Pi$
\begin{align}
\max_{K,L}\{\Pi(K,L) = F(K,L) - RK - wL\}
\end{align}
where $F$ is the linear homogeneous production function, $R$ the rental rate of capital $K$...
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Examples of how economists come up with a production function for a firm?
I am a young man studying economics on his own. In every microeconomics text I find, they teach you what a production function is, but they never show examples (or practice problems) on how one comes ...
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Ranking Sectors Based on “Inclusiveness”, greater variance among sectors with less firms
I am trying to rank sectors in Serbia based on how "inclusive" they are in their development, i.e. I have some indicators such as "share of profitable firms within sector", "share of exporting firms ...
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Literature / Evidence on Cash Hoarding of Firms
I have received anecdotal evidence (heard stories) about many firms hoarding cash (liquid assets) post 2008 and not spending it despite availability of many projects with positive NPV. However, when I ...
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Distribution of firm sizes and firm age
What are public sources for US firm/plant sizes, in order to characterize the firm size distribution? And what are stylized facts about the firm size distribution: What does it approximate to?
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Empirical ranking of firms based on productivity
I want to rank firms based on a metric, let's call it productivity.
Theoretically, this firm productivity measure may be well defined. Empirically, however, data that account for all dimensions of ...
