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Make or Buy Decisions and Data Sharing

Firms can share data to discover potential synergies between their data sets and algorithms, eventually leading to more efficient mergers and acquisitions (M&A) decisions. However, …

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Task Discretion, Labor-market Frictions, and Entrepreneurship

An agent can perform a job in several ways, which we call tasks. Choosing agents tasks is the prerogative of management within firms, and of agents themselves if they are …

andrea-canidio

Firm organisation: What we know and why we should care

Increasingly, people are pointing the finger of blame for economic woe at large firms. This column argues that organisation design is often affected by government trade policy. If …

paola-conconi

The Nobel Prize: What is mechanism design and why does it matter for policy-making?

Mechanism design theory is a major breakthrough in the modern economic analysis of institutions and markets. It revolutionalised the way economists think about optimal institutions …

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