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- 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007
(forthcoming) Abstract Abarbanell and Lehavy (2006) examine the effect of distributional properties of earnings and forecast data used by researchers who investigate 'Street' earnings. They perform a large number of analyses, and emphasize that care must be taken in...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
Ramanna Abstract—SEC oversight of publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC) negatively predict enforcement...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services
Data Practices Data Tips & Toolkits 7ms Causal Inference R Packages causalTree, CausalImpact, Counterfactual, BayesTree, rrd, FindIt, causaldrf, uplift, Synth, matchIt, pcalg, wfe, matching, med ex, BCEE, dagitty, causale ect, mediation,...
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- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
overworked lifestyle, rather than a leisurely lifestyle, has become an aspirational status symbol. A series of studies shows that the positive inferences of status in response to busyness and lack of leisure are driven by the perceptions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
cash at what time? How is risk allocated? What are the incentives of all parties to the deal now and given reasonable scenarios into the future? Who will be attracted by the deal? What can be inferred from how people respond to the deal...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
lags are highly correlated across technologies. The productivity differentials between the state-of-the-art technologies that we consider and the ones they replace combined with the usage lags that we document, lead us to infer that...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres Abstract—We describe how to employ machine learning (ML) methods in theory development. Compared to traditional causal inference...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
average, consistent with the Bayesian intuition that the market inferred their work was mediocre all along. We then investigate whether the eminence of the retracted author and the cause of the retraction (fraud vs. mistake) shape the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
interference when identifying an object from others' spatial perspectives, and relied more heavily on privileged knowledge when inferring others' beliefs. Using both experimental-causal-chain and measurement-of-mediation approaches, we...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
to conflict, and the issues related to making causal inferences from observed correlations. We illustrate how some of these issues can be overcome in a study of mental health in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mental health is...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
should manage their corporate brands. The idea is that a significant part of the value of MNC brands comes from the inferences that consumers draw from their global reach. This idea makes intuitive sense to managers but has never been...
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by Manda Salls
- 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
Eight studies demonstrate that when firms empower consumers to vote, consumers infer a series of implicit promises—even in the absence of explicit promises. We identify three implicit promises to which consumers react negatively when...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
inferences from the mere availability of add-ons, which in turn lead to significant changes in the perceived utility of the base good itself. Specifically, we propose that the improvements supplied by add-ons can be classified as either...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
chronic source of problem in the labor market. Employers really rely on informed inferences about who’s going to be a good fit. They often end up with mismatches that lead to both voluntary and involuntary turnover, very expensive for...
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- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
opportunities to cheat on tests are likely to engage in self-deception, inferring that their elevated performance is a sign of intelligence. This short-term psychological benefit of self-deception, however, can come with longer-term...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
firms attempt to manage recently acquired customers for whom only the first purchase has been observed. We propose a model that allows marketers to form “first impressions" of customers right after having been acquired. We define a first impression as an View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
complex reports. Stated beliefs suggest that receivers correctly infer the strategic implications of complexity but are overconfident about their ability to assess complex reports. Download working paper:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
downturn in returns are more likely to infer that prices would continue to go up. We thought the experimental work was interesting, but wanted to know whether those results had anything to do with real-world financial markets. Our main...
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- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Rucker Abstract—Previous research suggests that people draw inferences about their attitudes and preferences based on their own thoughtfulness. The current research explores how observing other individuals make decisions more or less...
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Anna Secino
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
measurement errors. I document the first direct empirical evidence that ICC measurement errors can be persistent, can be associated with firms' risk or growth characteristics, and thus confound regression inferences on expected returns. I...
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Sean Silverthorne