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- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
mortgages, accumulating twice the holdings of more seasoned managers. Moreover, inexperienced managers who personally experienced severe or recent adverse investment outcomes behaved more like seasoned managers. Training and institutional memory can serve as partial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007
Working PapersStrategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic complements or View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
older age. The design of purchased products varies strongly with household characteristics, suggesting the importance of heterogeneity in preferences and financial circumstances. A simple portfolio choice model shows that household loss aversion best explains the View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28
associated with high used ship prices and heightened industry investment in new ships, but we forecast low future returns. We propose and estimate a behavioral model of industry cycles that can account for the evidence. In our model, firms over-extrapolate exogenous...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
resulting currency position tends to rise in value when equity markets fall. This strategy works well for investment horizons of one month to one year. In the past 15 years the risk-minimizing demand for the dollar appears to have...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2
California By: Simcoe, Timothy, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—We study how government green procurement policies influence private-sector demand for similar products. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6
authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
no one passes up the opportunity; 91 percent of those accepted started class this fall, a yield unmatched by any rival. HBS MBAs are in high demand in the job market. So where's the rub? “Conventional MBA programs train the wrong people...
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- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
intertemporal elasticity, optimal capital income tax rates are 2% on average and 4.5% on high earners. We find that the intertemporal elasticity of substitution has a substantial effect on optimal capital taxation. If the intertemporal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008
demand, the national accounts, and the balance of payments. Aid has no measurable impact on prices or economic growth, though it does affect most components of the national income accounts. We find that much aid is consumed, primarily in the form of imported...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
experiences alter their responses. Moreover, although individual and other experience act as substitutes prior to negative news, we find that this substitution curtails significantly following the negative...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W15551 Labor Regulations and European Private Equity Authors:Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g.,...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
Peer influences appear to be substitutes for direct experience: the effects are strongest for those without exposure to entrepreneurship in their family of origin, and for those who have engaged in little inter-firm mobility themselves....
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout taxes,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
Website Yelp.com and restaurant data from the Washington State Department of Revenue. Because Yelp prominently displays a restaurant's rounded average rating, I can identify the causal impact of Yelp ratings on demand with a regression...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
old technology, and "retreat" strategies, which attempt to accommodate the rise of the new technology by repositioning the old technology in the demand environment. Underlying our arguments is the observation that the emergence...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
(2) technologies capable of addressing the demands of the new markets, and (3) a new enterprise logic that can link employees, technologies, and markets in new ways. Today's environment holds the potential for these three forces to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
agents, imitation or substitution by third parties, and the withdrawal of IP by agents or third-party owners. For each threat, we consider the impact of modularity in the presence or absence of an effective legal system. The models permit...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob Abstract When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). High taxes will favor firms that can finance internally. If there are no perfect View Details
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Sean Silverthorne