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- 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006
earnings on a more timely basis than "good" news using a regression of earnings on returns. We examine the asymmetric timeliness estimation procedure and identify properties that result in biased test statistics used to test...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015
matching estimations, and regression discontinuity designs. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50067 Harvard Business School Case 315-049 Cravia: An Entrepreneurial Endeavor in Dubai Walid Hajj (HBS '95), CEO...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24
portfolio stock return regressions we find that firms with good performance on material sustainability issues significantly outperform firms with poor performance on these issues, suggesting that investments in sustainability issues are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015
standard forecasting regressions reveal that increases in p*t lead to economic downturns. Second, disaster risk is priced in the cross section of U.S. equity returns. A zero-cost equity portfolio with exposure to disasters earns...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27
forecasts of holding period returns strongly predict the cross section of future returns up to three years ahead. We document a highly significant predictive pooled regression slope for future quarterly returns of 0.86, whereas the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7
constituency level data for elections to India's state assemblies and a regression discontinuity design. On average, we find that female incumbents are more likely than male incumbents to re-contest but that there is a decline in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, and the left-hand tail of the firm size distribution thickens significantly, suggesting increased entry by small firms. However, the dominance and growth of large incumbents remains unchallenged. Quantile View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
but is difficult when demand history is unavailable such as for new products. One method that can be applied in such cases uses dispersion among forecasting experts as a measure of demand uncertainty. This paper provides a test for this method, and presents a...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
experiments, panel data, matching, and regression discontinuity. The note is intended for a general audience and does not require advanced statistics knowledge. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/616009-PDF-ENG
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
hypothetical delivery of a 23-week gestation infant and chose either IC or CC. Open-ended and structured questions elicited reasoning. Data were analyzed by chi-square and logistic regression analysis. Results: Neither degree of detail,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
that UGC on platforms ranging from Yelp to Facebook has a large causal impact on economic and social outcomes ranging from restaurant decisions to voting behavior. These findings often leverage unique data sets and methods ranging from View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008
are much weaker. In individual-level regressions of engagement in category-spanning communication patterns, we find that women, mid- to high-level executives, and members of the executive management, sales and marketing functions are most...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Our logistic regression models indicate that (1) realized post-purchase price drops lead to a higher probability of return, and (2) anticipated price drops after purchase lead to a higher probability of using cash on delivery, a payment...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
governance mode (make, ally, or buy) and also promotes substitution effects on governance mode choice while impacting exchange performance. We evaluate hypotheses using a novel three-stage switching regression model and a sample of 222...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
incumbents remains unchallenged. Quantile regressions reveal that the distributional effects of deregulation on firm size are significantly non-linear. The reallocation of market shares toward a small number of large firms and a large...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Regression estimates suggest that the relationship between leverage, exchange rate depreciations, and corporate financial distress is time varying. A central finding is that firm size is correlated with corporate distress and, further,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. Using an instrumental variables approach derived from a regression discontinuity, we find that increasing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
hospitals and established reliability using interrater comparison. Using a factor analysis, we identified three themes of management competencies: management of unit culture, patient flow, and nursing. We constructed patient-level View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
States. Design: We examined the correlation between the coincident index (a proxy for overall economic conditions) and IVF use at the national level from 2000 to 2011. We then analyzed the relationship at the state level through longitudinal View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
during the AFC. Regression estimates suggest that the relationship between leverage, exchange rate depreciations, and corporate financial distress is time varying. Also, a central finding is that firm size is correlated with corporate...
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Sean Silverthorne