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- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
providing an additional source of revenue, but reduces consumer demand for the service. We characterize equilibrium information provision, disclosure levels, and prices and show that competition with privacy has several effects on the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
and Matthew C. Weinzierl Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which prices are sticky in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. This new book...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
every business and nonprofit segment. Conventional approaches to strategy development and problem solving no longer work―there is no stable industry or market equilibrium structure that we will return to “when change abates.” Most company...
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- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
variety of valuation approaches, from techniques widely used in practice to methods less frequently seen in practice today but likely to be increasingly important in the future years. Publisher's link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002072.html...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-032.pdf Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten Abstract If a country's accounting standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
person one rank above them instead of the person one rank below. Last-place aversion suggests that low-income individuals might oppose redistribution because it could differentially help the group just...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
Edited by Julia Hanna and Dan Morrell Above: Josh Escher, hard at work as father Peter supervises. (photo by Michael Hanson) The phrase “work-life balance”—that mythical equilibrium between career and family responsibilities—has been...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
who are working there, it’s not just a job. When you’re rewarded by somebody who knows you as a person and builds you up, it’s not just a job anymore; it’s a bunch of relationships. If we don’t understand that, then all we’re doing is...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
look large and compelling. But it can have significant downsides. Leaders who prefer to zoom in tend to create policies and systems that depend too much on politics and favors. They can focus too closely on personal status and on turf...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
as well as recent articles that help give the reader a sense of where the field is headed and where likely opportunities for future research lie. This article seeks to strike an equilibrium among the variety of perspectives that exist in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
determine the equilibrium supply chain structure. These operational tradeoffs arise as a result of the geographic constraints posed by the availability of arable land and the spatial population distribution. We model the interdependent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
upgrade sales to an installed base. When profits from the installed base are sufficiently large, a pure strategy equilibrium exists with two B firms active in the market. Although there is competition in the complement market, the...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
fixed costs/scale sensitivity on the supply side, are all capable of reducing the equilibrium level of global standardization, as is the ability of local producers to pre-commit costs to particular markets. Convergence of the price of the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
intermediate, respectively. However, for larger quality provision costs, firms exploit both dimensions to differentiate their products. In particular, we characterize a maximal differentiation equilibrium in which one firm chooses the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays uncertainty, and contingent-debt service. Our framework also recognizes that contingent debt can...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
Landvoigt Abstract—How does the shadow banking system respond to changes in the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and shadow banks to study the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
PublicationsFinding Your True North: A Personal Guide Authors:Bill George, Andrew McLean, and Nick Craig Publication:San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008 Abstract Based on Bill George's bestselling book True North, this View Details
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Martha Lagace