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- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
data to recover parameters including the depreciation rate and adjustment costs of managerial capital (both found to be larger than for tangible non-managerial capital). Our model also predicts (i) a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
observers rate those who reveal even questionable behavior more positively (experiments 4A and 4B). The negative impact of hiding holds whether opting not to disclose unflattering (drug use, poor grades, and sexually transmitted diseases)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25
full-blown financial and currency crisis. Latvia then adopted an aggressive economic adjustment program centered on maintaining its currency peg, which meant competitiveness would have to be restored by reducing domestic prices, wages,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
from the developed to the developing country and (ii) adjustment costs to investment flows. Consistent with the model, we observe that the flow of technologies from N to S co-moves positively with output in both N and S. After calibrating...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
order when should DVDs are rented before want DVDs. Specifically, a 1.3% increase in the probability of a reversal in preferences (from a baseline rate of 12%) ensues if the first of two sequentially rented movies has more should and...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
quality. Furthermore, the decay rate of athletics goodwill is smaller for students with lower SAT scores, suggesting that the goodwill created by intercollegiate athletics resides more extensively with low-ability students than with their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that saw an acceleration in the speed of adopting new technologies. This...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
the more traditional interest rate and tax channels-suggests new considerations in assessing the impact of government spending on private sector economic activity. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/cmalloy/pdffiles/envaloy.pdf...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2012
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make bad decisions? Using both field and quantitative data from the MGM-Mirage Group, this paper discusses how management controls affect the learning rates of lower-level employees. Research, focusing on hotel casino hosts, was conducted...
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- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
risk-minimizing currency strategy for a global bond investor is close to a full currency hedge, with a modest long position in the U.S. dollar. There is little evidence that risk-minimizing investors should adjust their currency positions...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
absent from the largest retail markets. Moreover, every retailer that has ventured overseas has failed as often as it has succeeded. On average, the extent of internationalization doesn't have a significant effect on either retailers' revenue growth View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
decision rights and (2) adjust for local information, including historical performance data, in their decisions. These decision-making patterns are associated with large and systematic differences in learning View Details
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Sean Silverthorne