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The introduction previews the empirical measure and the search model, sketches the cash-flow versus discount-rate mechanism, and positions the work against three literatures before giving a roadmap. The body first documents the anomaly with portfolio sorts, robustness checks and Fama-MacBeth regressions. It then builds a partial-equilibrium search model with heterogeneous firms, calibrates it to match moments and return spreads, and closes by testing the mechanism's micro predictions in firm data. The conclusion restates the findings and calls for further research.\",\"writing_profile_keywords\":[\"empirics-first then model\",\"production-based asset pricing\",\"search and matching\",\"calibration\",\"portfolio sorts\",\"Fama-MacBeth\",\"mechanism inspection\",\"model-data comparison tables\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"notes\":\"Section idx 2 has a heading-parsing artifact ('(b)'); it continues the empirical results with portfolio sorts and robustness. 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