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- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
supply chain factories' adherence to the global labor standards embodied in codes of conduct imposed by multinational buyers. We find that suppliers are more likely to adhere when they are embedded in states that participate actively in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- June 2011
- Article
Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act
By: Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin J. Forbes
This paper analyzes the impact of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings and thereby reduced the cost to U.S. multinationals of accessing a source of internal capital. Lawmakers and lobbyists...
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Investment;
Performance Effectiveness;
Code Law;
Taxation;
Cost;
Capital;
Financial Strategy;
Research and Development;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
United States
Dharmapala, Dhammika, C. Fritz Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes. "Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act." Journal of Finance 66, no. 3 (June 2011): 753–787.
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
design principles and properties for a non-technical audience; reviews its past, present, and future uses; and points out risks and regulatory issues as Bitcoin interacts with the conventional financial system and the real economy. Download working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
students to wrestle with the uncertainties of copyright compliance as they decide whether Black Duck should certify that their clients' code is non-infringing. It also raises questions about which growth opportunities Black Duck should...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
costs, it was theorized. The problem: Automation may help on some record-keeping tasks, but it also imposes its own costs. “In fact, more costs were shifted over to doctors in that they had to enter more codes into the so-called automated...
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- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
brands to the working conditions of the suppliers who produce their branded products. This has resulted in brands creating supplier codes of conduct, which is the first piece. Then those brands need to actually hold suppliers accountable...
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- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
effort they enjoyed wide institutional backing. Courts of law routinely supported those who made predictions based on dispassionate scientific rules rather than those who, say, enlisted the help of the stars. Many U.S. jurisdictions...
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by Walter A. Friedman
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
not, multinational brands have taken up the mantle of responsibility, establishing codes of conduct that their suppliers are—theoretically at least—obligated to adhere to. Often, the brands also monitor their suppliers’ performance with...
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by Michael Blanding
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
law is alive and well in cyberspace and that governments are fully prepared to enforce it. And finally, although we haven't seen these stories yet, I imagine that there will soon be a lot more interest in preventing possible terrorists...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
across space? Why does the law of gravity apply? How do the costs of transporting goods, tasks, and technologies influence firms’ decisions to separate tasks geographically and locate relative to one another? We discuss a variety of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
percent participated, saving $606 on average. Ten percent were turned away from opening a savings account due to prior bad financial management, i.e., having a bank account closed for non-sufficient funds. "I don't believe the federal government should pass a...
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- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
love didn’t last, though, especially when Kalanick defied those same cities when they tried to enforce local laws or when Uber would start a service without municipal permission. (Uber argued it was a technology company connecting riders...
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- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
starting in 1992 with a focus on the three King codes of corporate governance (King I in 1994, King II in 2000, and King III in 2009). From a reporting perspective these reforms culminated in the "apply to explain why not"...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Review 86, no. 10 (October 2008) Abstract In the face of the recent institutional breakdown of trust in business, managers are losing legitimacy. To regain public trust, management needs to become a true profession in much the way medicine and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Abstract We examine the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on several measures of socially responsible management practices. Using data for 58 countries, we show that after the adoption of mandatory sustainability...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Law Review 126, no. 4 (forthcoming).18-23: (February 2013) Abstract Roger Fisher's career and writings not only offer lessons about negotiation but also about how an academic, especially in a professional school such as View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
and the supervised ML coding of facial images with a neural network algorithm. We employ these novel methods to study CEO oral communication, using videos and corresponding transcripts of emerging market CEO interviews to conduct our...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
Google Streetview), we find that gentrifying neighborhoods tend to have growing numbers of local groceries, cafes, restaurants, and bars, with little evidence of crowd-out of other types of businesses. For example, the entry of a new coffee shop into a zip View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
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their own compliance and enforce the law against themselves? This paper addresses these questions by investigating the factors that lead organizations to self-disclose violations, the effects of self-policing on regulatory compliance, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
the Modern Administrative State, 1912–1925: Trade Associations, Codes of Fair Competition, and State Building By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips Abstract—From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber's history shows a...
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Sean Silverthorne