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- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
and consistent with experimentation to learn about earnings. This pattern motivates estimating the expected returns to entrepreneurship within a dynamic lifecycle model that allows for non-random selection and gradual learning about the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
times, when expected short-run returns are relatively low and 2) the model-implied forecaster of aggregate returns exhibits modest predictive ability. Collectively, we provide a simple, theoretically motivated and practically useful approach to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
definitions of what constitutes a "team." For this paper we collected a unique dataset from the men's major soccer league in Italy. For each match we computed the exact pay dispersion of each work team and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
that internal agglomerations have a positive impact on location. The effects of internal agglomerations vary by activity, and they arise both within an activity (e.g., among plants) and across activities (e.g., between sales and manufacturing). Our results also suggest...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
effect. To discern whether status serves as a signal of quality under uncertainty or satisfies the motive of conspicuous consumption, I study a period of time during which the uncertainty about quality has arguably declined. An instrumental variable and a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
destination firm in 10% of our sample, which is significantly higher than in a matched sample. Analyst-manager "co-migration" is significantly stronger when both firms are within the same industry. Analysts who move with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
Back-of-the-envelope welfare estimates indicate that the 3.9% increase in patent grants at the USPTO could potentially create $1.16 billion in value for the U.S. economy. Southern Responses to Gold Certification: Cooperate, Compete,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
a company remains in the index they will keep holding the stock. Second, large pension funds such as Norges Bank Investment Management, AP, and the New York State Common Retirement Fund. They also tend to hold significant portions of the equity shares of many companies...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
a link on the right offers Team SoloMid gear. A constant stream of fan comments races alongside the game, and on archived videos, flashy Budweiser ads periodically interrupt the action. Each month, Twitch says, more than 100 million people will log in to watch an View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Mustapha would be lucky to harvest 1.4 metric tons of maize—one-fifth the yield farmers in Brazil and China can expect. To match their production, he'd need to invest about $500 per hectare. But Mustapha earned only around $600 a year—and...
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- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
special committees can use to level the playing field: for example, contractual commitments from management that allow the board to run the process; pre-signing rather than post-signing market checks; information rights rather than match...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
recourse to funds-of-funds. We use asset allocation concepts to estimate characteristics of the funds-of-funds benchmark distribution. Since the benchmark characteristics are reasonable, we conclude that funds-of-funds, on average,...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using U.S. Census microdata on firm-level output, R&D, and patenting. The...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015
organizational units and corporations are likely to match the boundaries of underlying technological modules. (This correspondence is called "mirroring.") In this article, I explain the concept of modularity and describe how...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
a suitcase, and headed back to work. A pro bono study by several of the city's top consulting firms has estimated that the damage to New York City totals $83 billion. That figure may be low, some observers say, and of course it cannot...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
connected and on task throughout the day. Here, the agenda is less structured. Most villagers survive on sales of handmade rugs and subsistence farming. But there’s also a tension in the village between a communal way of life and external pressures. With an View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
shareholders used to protect themselves by examining the dividend policy and governance of over 800 publicly traded companies at the beginning of the 1880s. We assess the importance of these mechanisms by estimating their impact on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
LPO in August 2005. A week later, while guest conducting in Korea, he saw reports on CNN that New Orleans, though battered by Hurricane Katrina, had managed to avoid major damage. But constant email updates from an LPO member, which had earlier View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
investments across time and as they move between firms. We find evidence of skill and exit style differences even among venture partners investing at the same VC firm at the same time. Furthermore, our estimates suggest the partner's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
Authors:Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford Abstract This paper studies the cost of capital for alternative investments. We document that the risk profile of the aggregate hedge fund universe can be accurately matched by a simple index put...
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Sean Silverthorne