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- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast, judges are exhorted to follow a set of start dates for considering and hiring applicants during the fall of the third year of...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
our research examines. We find that, to the contrary, the success of voluntary regulation is contingent on a robust regime of government inspection and enforcement. Within such a regime, we find that voluntary compliance efforts by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
deterred by concerns about their employees’ security and worries about Iraq’s future oil policies. Where the majors see difficulty, we see opportunity. Iraq can still be fixed, if policies are adjusted now. Few are nostalgic for the days of Saddam, but View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
"surprises" that happen during review periods, which increase abnormal returns. The estimated effects fall over time. This is consistent with the hypothesis of strategic firms and that the regulatory regime translates these...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
initiatives will fail. Opening space for a mutually acceptable nuclear deal-that avoids both military conflict and a nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable Iran-requires relentlessly and creatively worsening Iran's no-deal options while enhancing the value to Iranian View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
corporate tax regime on this relation. We document that the growth of corporate profits, on average, has outpaced the growth of the economy, and this disconnect increases as the difference between the corporate income tax rate of the U.S....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
that are more or less open to compromise with the incumbent regime of Assad. Our results show, first, that refugees are far more likely to agree to a cease-fire proposed by a civilian as opposed to one proposed by armed actors from either...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
taken and proposed by the U.S. and European governments. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110048-PDF-ENG The U.S. Life Insurance Industry Robert C. Pozen and McCall MerchantHarvard Business School Note 310-091 This note provides a background on...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
(FDI). The worldwide tax regime employed by the U.S. potentially distorts this choice by penalizing FDI, relative to FPI, in low-tax countries. On the other hand, weak investor protections in foreign countries may increase the value of...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
banks had failed since 1825, and many legislatures believed that a significant change in the banking regime was needed to shore up the state's financial systems. Others, however, feared that a major change in the law was too risky,...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
of social structure and the relations of power that underlie them. The article proposes a more empirical approach to framing accountability—"thick description"—that might enable scholars to better understand how social regimes...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
effects of monetary policy parameters and macroeconomic shocks on nominal bond risks, using a New Keynesian model with habit formation and discrete regime shifts in 1979 and 1997. The increase in bond risks after 1979 is attributed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
lower-skilled participants, consistent with high-skilled workers having a greater chance of winning cash prizes. In addition, the cash incentive acted most acutely by increasing the fraction of subjects who worked more than the minimum. "Workers' ability to fit...
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by Michael Blanding
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
services. In making strategic decisions around technology commercialization, managers often assume that the intellectual property environment and the architecture of the industry are beyond their control. This need not be so. This article shows how managers can shape...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
macroeconomic shocks on nominal bond risks, using a New Keynesian model with habit formation and discrete regime shifts in 1979 and 1997. The increase in bond risks after 1979 is attributed primarily to a shift in monetary policy towards...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
going forward. The regulatory regime that the Fed is going to impose on them is going to be markedly broader and stronger and deeper than anything they have experienced before. Their capital requirements are going to go up significantly....
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- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Willy Jacobson rebuilt the international business and sought to protect it by "cloaking" the ultimate ownership. Following the appointment of Adolf Hitler, as German Chancellor in 1933, Beiersdorf and Jacobson personally also came under attack by the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign operations—the so-called "end to tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas." At the same time, the...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
his home on Kiraly Street on the Pest side of Budapest and he then had to endure a Soviet Communist regime from 1945, when the Russians forced the Germans out of Budapest after a lengthy and very destructive siege, until 1956 when the...
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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
century. It focuses especially on Beiersdorf, a pharmaceutical and skin care company in Germany. During World War I, the expropriation of its brands and trademarks revealed its vulnerability to political risk. Following the advent of the Nazi View Details
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Sean Silverthorne