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- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
times the $132 billion that the 1995 Kobe earthquake did, making it one of the Japan's most costly natural disasters. Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and...
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- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
floor, for instance. It was unconscious thought that proved to be good at selecting options with the best aggregated information. (In the case of this study, participants were asked to choose an apartment with many positive, important...
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by Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
and produce an aggregate equity term structure that tracks economic conditions. The implied term structure is upward sloping during normal or expansion periods but flattens or inverts during economic downturns or times of high...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
driven by large aggregator NPEs and is not the behavior of small innovators. We find further suggestive evidence of NPE opportunism, such as forum shopping and targeting of firms that may have reduced ability to defend themselves against...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
formats now fit only a narrow segment of the population. Finally, much of retail growth over the last three decades has relied on aggregating volume to support a large store infrastructure. However, this volume may not View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Alumni Books Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk by Gary Antonacci (MBA 1978) (McGraw-Hill) Antonacci explains his investing method, which combines U.S. stock, non-U.S. stock, and aggregate...
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- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
more than a material exchange in labor relations). Third, we study survey data for the 1990s on the beliefs of Peronist and non-Peronist voters in Argentina and Democrat and Republican voters in the United States. While income and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Publication:Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (spring 2011) 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
leaders. These deliver worse material outcomes in general, but they reduce the feelings of betrayal during bad times. Some evidence consistent with our model is gathered from the Trump-Clinton 2016 election: on average, subjects primed...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
travel reservation systems, payment card systems, marketplaces, rebate services, search engine advertising, and various types of brokers and agencies. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2373671 Search Based Peer Firms: View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
flexible random coefficients aggregate discrete choice model that accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success, and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved quality in...
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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
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
very material for an investment decision. So are you able to capture some of that stuff that’s inside of organizations and make that part of your ratings and risk analysis? Kapoor: Yeah. It’s a slightly tricky topic, and we have something...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
and the internal processes that create sustained advantage. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-027_a00eeeb6-c5c6-41cc-b4f4-8047926c067a.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
variation in average asset returns than aggregate or non-stockholder consumption risk and provides more plausible economic magnitudes. We find that risk aversion estimates around 10 can match observed risk premia for the wealthiest...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
ways of understanding the world and as sets of varying methods for achieving that understanding. It rejects the assumption that material interests either linearly or simply determine economic outcomes and demands that analysts consider,...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
presentation of special items within the financial statements reflects the firm's underlying economic performance or opportunism. We examine the presentation of recognized special items either as a separate line item on the income statement or View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
Side of the Vote: Biased Voters, Social Information, and Information Aggregation Through Majority Voting Authors: Rebecca B. Morton, Marco Piovesan, and Jean-Robert Tyran Abstract We experimentally investigate information View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
extrapolating past returns. Such beliefs are hard to reconcile with existing models of the aggregate stock market. We study a consumption-based asset pricing model in which some investors form beliefs about future price changes in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
informational and procedural quality. We close by discussing the implications of our findings for organizations and researchers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-001.pdf Cases & Course Materials Alibaba's Taobao...
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Martha Lagace