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THEME #2: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH VARIATION
Prior work has yet to establish definitively the role that variation (e.g. in individuals' activities or organizational processes) plays in the development of capabilities. Variation is usually either not considered (e.g., the learning curve examines... View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
What Makes the Bonding Stick? A Natural Experiment Involving the U.S. Supreme Court and Cross-Listed Firms
- February 2008
- Exercise
Gerson Lehrman Group
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Incidence of the Corporate Income Tax Is Irrelevant for Its (Benefit-Based) Justification
- 2018
- Working Paper
Bundling Incentives in (Many-to-Many) Matching with Contracts
- 2011
- Book
Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World
- March 2016
- Article
Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Approach
- Article
The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments
- 04 Dec 2013
- News
Crowdsourcing: Why many heads are better than one
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Demand for Executive Skills
The Price Effects of Cross-Market Mergers: Theory and Evidence from the Hospital Industry
Signaling with Dividends
We outline a dividend signaling model that features investors who are behaviorally averse to dividend cuts. Managers with strong unobservable cash earnings separate by paying high dividends but retain enough to be likely not to fall short next period. The model is... View Details
Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile
We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Demand for Executive Skills
- Summer 2019
- Article
The Price Effects of Cross-Market Mergers: Theory and Evidence from the Hospital Industry
- November 2020
- Article
The Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between Corporate Performance and Economic Growth
- Article
Holdout in the Assembly of Complements: A Problem for Market Design
- October 2007
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