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- 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007
firm-size distribution and de jure and de facto measures of international capital integration. We then explore causal channels through which foreign capital may encourage entrepreneurship. We find evidence...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016
information aggregation treatments do not affect total equity investment when we make the investment environment more realistic than in prior experiments. Previously documented aggregation effects are not robust to changes in the risky asset’s return View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
fields. A sponsor is someone who advocates for a protégé, and in doing so, takes a stake in her success. We use a laboratory experiment to explore two channels through which sponsorship has been posited to increase advancement in a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
video rental chains. The combination of a large national inventory, a recommendation system that drove viewership across the broad catalog, and a large customer base made Netflix a force to be reckoned with, especially as a distribution...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
and complementary effects across channels to provide sales forecasting, promotion planning, and customer relationship management guidance to multichannel managers. We investigate three contingencies in a sales analysis of a leading U.S....
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
upgrading of its channel strategy design that accounted for 46% of North America sales in 2006. Nonetheless, NetApp senior management announced they expected to grow revenue another 30% in fiscal 2007 with half the growth coming from...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
treatment with a simulation of paying U.S. federal taxes. Allowing taxpayers to signal their preferences on the distribution of government spending results in a 15% reduction in the stated take-up rate of a questionable tax loophole....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
primacy of signaling cooperative intent, handshaking actually reduced cooperation when the action signaled ill intent (e.g., when the handshaker was sick; Study 5). Finally, in Study 6, executives assigned to shake hands before a more antagonistic, View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
people are a smaller number of big decisions: buying a house, buying a car, dealing with a building contractor, investing for retirement, etc. These consumption decisions tend to be made on an irregular and infrequent basis or are new in structure because of a change...
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by Max H. Bazerman
- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
were assigned incomes reflective of the U.S. income distribution either at random or on merit—punished the poor (for small absolute contributions) and rewarded the rich (for large absolute contributions) when incomes were unknown; when...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
1,582 loans financing private equity-sponsored leveraged buyouts between 1993 and 2005, we find that bank relationships explain cross-sectional variation in the loan interest rate and covenant structure. Our results indicate that two View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
Because it gives GM a better shot at establishing OnStar as the industry standard. And because GM extends its OnStar distribution to market segments they may not otherwise reach with their auto brands." Invent the competitor who...
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by David Stauffer
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
implications of our findings for the literature on absorptive capacity and open and distributed innovation. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1802696 Do Market Leaders Lead in Business Process...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
by serving as a central organ for distributing news of corporate activity to internal as well as external audiences. In effect, it served as a vehicle for making human conversation all but unnecessary, at least from an organizational...
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Re: Boris Groysberg
- 26 Jul 2010
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Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
consumers (or retailers) are unlikely to pay. But the acquisitions provided a convenient distribution channel for residential customers who want to drop off or return goods ordered online, and moved new...
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- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
sovereign default induced by legal rulings in the case of Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital. We find that a 10% increase in the probability of default causes a 6% decline in the value of Argentine equities and a 1% depreciation of a measure of the exchange rate. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010
determinant of choices than fairness, and iii) agents display a marked propensity to work for principals with similar distributional concerns. Working PapersReport on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
through a largely unguided process like biological evolution with a gradual impact upon the distribution of power among economic and political actors, the emergence of factor markets typically required fundamental reordering of power...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for growth for a state at the 10th or 25th percentile of corruption is significantly positive; on the...
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Sean Silverthorne