The value of managers, a matter of market power?
Renjie Bao, Jan De Loecker, and Jan Eeckhout build and estimate a structural model that decomposes the origins of manager pay into those that are due to market power and those due to firm size.
Risk-Sharing and Harmonizing Unemployment Benefits to Strengthen European Integration
As Jean Monnet, recognized, often it takes a crisis for the EU to move ahead. This has been the case with the COVID-19 crisis and the launch of the Temporary Support to Mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) mechanism providing, for the first time, financial support (loans at convenient conditions) to member states to…
Supplying the government improves your credit
Governments around the world purchase goods and services from private firms by awarding public procurement contracts. This is likely one of the main channels through which public goods are supplied to the economy and an important source of potential revenues for firms. However, little has been written thus far on the subject.
Should buyers advertise contracts?
This article looks at the equilibrium effects of enhancing competition for procurement contracts in prices and execution quality. By focusing on the U.S. Department of Defense, the authors provide empirical evidence on this trade-off to later develop an equilibrium model of competition for contracts.
