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  • 2010
  • Chapter

Lessons from Catastrophe Reinsurance

By: Kenneth A. Froot
Of the 20 most costly catastrophes since 1970, more than half have occurred since 2001. Is this an omen of what the 21st century will be? How might we behave in this new, uncertain, and more dangerous environment? Will our actions be rational or irrational? A select... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Insurance; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Disasters; Behavior
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  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

yields. However, the fraction of seniors is uncorrelated with share repurchases, investment, or profitability, suggesting that geographic variation in dividend payout is not driven by some unmeasured firm characteristic affecting the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

the empirical quest to link a firm's social investments to its financial returns has preoccupied researchers. Our goal in this paper is to reorient debate and research about social initiatives by business. We try to stimulate a fresh... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
  • July–August 2014
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The Crisis in Retirement Planning

By: Robert C. Merton
Corporate America began to really take notice of the looming retirement crisis in the wake of the dot-com crash, when companies in major industries went bankrupt in large part because of their inability to meet their pension obligations. The result was an acceleration... View Details
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  • Fall 2020
  • Article

Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa

By: Michael A. Wheeler
Over the past two decades the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON) has named thirteen people as Great Negotiators. The project, directed by my colleague Jim Sebenius, has given us the opportunity to commend our honorees’ outstanding work and to learn from... View Details
Keywords: Art; Negotiation; Arts
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  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

deductibles. We show how choice difficulties or biases may lead patients to respond to such increases in patient cost-sharing by reducing demand for high-value care, muddying the traditional argument that the price elasticity of demand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 1, 2006

twenty-first century—race. As contributors to this volume, we were asked to focus on the relationship between race and mentoring. What do we learn about this important developmental relationship by examining the research on race and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

2015 Princeton University Press How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network By: Greenstein, Shane Abstract—In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Spring 2014
  • Article

The Market for Blood

By: Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang and Ellen Garbarino
Donating blood, "the gift of life," is among the noblest activities and it is performed worldwide nearly 100 million times annually. The economic perspective presented here shows how the gift of life, albeit noble and often motivated by altruism, is heavily influenced... View Details
Keywords: Altruism; Philanthropy; Analysis Of Health Care Markets; Market Design; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health
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  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

Lehman Brothers reduced their lending to a greater extent. Nobel Laureate Panel Discussion: What Retirement Means to Me Authors:Robert C. Merton, Paul A. Samuelson, and Robert M. Solow Publication:Chap. 1 in The Future of Life-Cycle... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

will of Alfred Nobel, described as "the Nobel Prize federation's constitution" is interpreted by us as indicating a brand-oriented approach within a network of interrelated institutions and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2013
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Opting-in: Participation Bias in Economic Experiments

By: Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang, Ellen Garbarino and Danielle Merrett
Assuming individuals rationally decide whether to participate or not to participate in lab experiments, we hypothesize several non-representative biases in the characteristics of lab participants. We test the hypotheses by first collecting survey and experimental data... View Details
Keywords: Participation Bias; Laboratory Experiments; Prejudice and Bias; Research
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  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

discussed and debated by the more than forty contributors to this book, among them three Nobel laureates and two former U.S. cabinet secretaries. Edited by author and columnist... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

ethically by cheating less. We further found that priming time reduces cheating by making people reflect on who they are. Implications for the use of time versus money primes in discouraging or promoting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

immigrant appears to be better trained to work in these fields, but this is conditional on educational attainment of comparable quality to natives. The exception to this is that immigrants have a disproportionate impact among the very highest achievers (e.g., View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

F. Sharpe, Robert C. Merton, and Myron S. Scholes Author:Robert C. Merton Publication:Vol. 2, edited by Howard R. Vane and Chris Mulhearn. Pioneering Papers of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

be disastrously distracted by seemingly innocuous factors — and how distractions can be avoided. This excerpt from the book's introduction describes how three different sets of forces sidetracked Gino's husband during a recent trip to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Francesca Gino
  • 22 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

The first edition of A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, by David A. Moss was published in 2007—just as one of the world's great economic downturns was taking off. The second edition has just been published, which includes an epilogue on... View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Moss
  • 22 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

followed by people who are 100 miles away, and so forth in concentric circles. My research on ethnic networks suggests this channel facilitates faster knowledge transfer and faster adoption of foreign technologies. For example, if the... View Details
Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer
  • 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

trends in the market, the case prompts students to examine the future adoption of drug-eluting stents as well as to consider the potential marketing actions to be taken by Medtronic for ENDEAVOR—a newly approved stent that will hit the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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