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- 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
constructively replicate and extend these findings with a supplemental analysis of a second sample, the full population of new nonprofit organizations founded during a two-year period in the United States (n = 31,160). By highlighting how...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
explore three distinct channels through which FDI affects establishment performance: (i) production linkages, (ii) financial linkages, and (iii) multinational networks. Our analysis shows that while multinational-owned establishments...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006
high tax costs when repatriating earnings. Estimates indicate that a one standard deviation increase in the tax burden from repatriating foreign income is associated with a 7.9% increase in the ratio of cash to net assets. In addition,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
when the ratio of government debt to total debt is higher; and ii) by firms with stronger balance sheets. Our theory provides a new perspective on the apparent ability of firms to exploit bond-market return predictability with their...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio comparable to U.S. insurance contracts. We present evidence suggesting that lack of trust, liquidity constraints, and limited salience are significant non-price frictions...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
than smaller menus, as measured by the maximum Sharpe ratio achievable. We propose a model in which menu setters differ in their ability to pre-select the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the menu size is sufficiently small,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1886489 Determinants of Successful Frontline Process Improvement: Action versus Analysis Authors:Anita L. Tucker and Sara J. Singer Abstract Senior manager participation is a key success...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
unanticipated postincentive study visit approximately three months later. Results: The odds of suppression were higher in the incentive choice arm than in the passive control arm at the postincentive visit (adjusted odds ratio 3.93, 95%...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 2
care needs to go "beyond the pill" and systematically integrate combinations of treatments. We discuss the implications of this approach for organizational and business models in the pharmaceutical industry. 2006 World Politics China's 'New Regionalism':...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for theory and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
higher and invest abroad when foreign prices are higher. Funds see the industry P/E ratios of their home investments drop in the year after the investment, while they have a positive change in the year after their investments abroad. SWFs...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
reliance on bank debt financing as measured by the ratio of bank debt to total debt by approximately 23% and increases its reliance on public debt financing as measured by the ratio of public debt to total...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
sold, inventory, and gross margin (defined here as the ratio of sales to cost of goods sold) as three endogenous variables. We construct a simultaneous equations model, estimated using public financial and non-financial data, to provide...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
prompted renewed debate on the role of fiscal rules. Their optimality, however, remains unclear. We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation and default modified to incorporate...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22
sorting. We exploit the exogenous variation in the pricing systems experienced during the 1999-2008 decade by the 95 municipalities in the district of Treviso (Italy). We estimate with a panel analysis that pay-as-you-throw (PAYT)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1
Value Approach By: Lyle, Matthew R., and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We provide a tractable model of firm-level expected holding period returns using two firm fundamentals-book-to-market ratio and ROE-and study the cross-sectional...
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
their businesses to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends rather than invest for the long term, undermining job growth and putting the country’s economic future at risk, often pointing to the high ratio of shareholder payouts...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
PublicationsThe Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Publication:Review of Marketing Science (forthcoming) Abstract We address a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings illuminate a continuum of open systems to closed systems phenomenological assumptions revealed in this microprocess research. View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
than measurements indicate? The current research explores problems that result, in part, from malfeasance by outside perpetrators who overstate their efforts to increase their measured performance. In parallel, similar vulnerabilities result from mistaken View Details
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Sean Silverthorne