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- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
need for substitutes.” Another outcome of a drop-off in consumption and employment is a need for products that become more valuable during such periods when consumers have more time on their hands. An astounding number of media companies...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
better consumption smoothing, issue more foreign-currency debt. We propose that monetary policy credibility explains the currency composition of sovereign debt and nominal bond risks in the presence of risk-averse investors. In our model,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
Baby Boomers age, you are hearing this big sucking sound as consumption goes away from retail and goes much more to cruises and vacations, grandkids and college. So it's important for retailers to think about how to keep Baby Boomers...
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- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Wenxin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—Nominal debt provides consumption-smoothing benefits if it can be inflated away during recessions. However, we document empirically that countries with more countercyclical inflation, where nominal debt provides better View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
consumption paths and then into a net effect on social welfare. I calibrate that framework using recently produced data on Social Security beneficiaries by lifetime income decile and both existing and new survey evidence on the normative...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
status on prices. The effect increases in a time of decreasing uncertainty, which supports the motive of conspicuous consumption as a driver of the effect. However, the results caution that we might commonly overestimate the symbolic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
purchases the same customers make when shopping without a coupon. The standard permanent income or lifecycle theory of consumption predicts that grocery spending will be unaffected by the use of a $10-off coupon, while a simple mental...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the same applications to benefit from consumption complementarities. We show that the combination...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
principles and practices. Quelch and Jocz lay out the six fundamental characteristics that marketing and democracy share: (1) exchange of value, such as goods, services, and promises, (2) consumption of goods and services, (3) choice in...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
lead to reduced economic productivity subsequent to exposure to temptation. Using a design inspired by the classic "Marshmallow Test," we report data from a field experiment in which children between the ages of 6 and 13 were exposed (or not) to a View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107029 How Media Choices are Changing Online Advertising Harvard Business School Note 707-458 What is the response by advertisers as media consumption moves to the digital...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
cross-country analysis for the claim that OECD polices worsen poverty in developing countries. To better understand what might drive these results, we turn to national employment and household consumption and expenditure surveys from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
new achievement are further escalated by the glamorized treatment they receive in today's media-centric world. The elements of celebrity—spectacle, "bests," charisma, and any form of novelty from the latest in consumption to a...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
targeted a variety of demographic segments in different sales points, acquired new customers, and created a moment of luxurious consumption for all ages. Accordingly, within Godiva’s global enterprise, Godiva Japan had become number two...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
raise menu prices—for everyone. Albeit indirectly, consumers pay for the intermediary services. "To me, this seems pretty screwed up," Edelman says. "The system encourages excessive consumption of OpenTable. As diners, we should leave...
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- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
find that customer adoption of online banking is associated with (1) substitution primarily from incrementally more costly self-service delivery channels (ATM and voice response unit); (2) augmentation of service consumption in more...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
-0.27. We also present evidence that consumers increased usage ahead of these announced price changes. Finally, we project that the price elasticity converges to a value between -0.30 and -0.35 after ten years. Our findings highlight the importance of accounting for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
contribution rates differ between employees hired before versus after the Roth introduction, which means that the amount of retirement consumption being purchased by 401(k) contributions increases after the Roth introduction. A survey...
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- 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016
conversely, the flaunting of a busy life and a dearth of leisure time. In addition, people’s relative interest in buying luxury experiences versus luxury products is increasing. Technology has introduced new business models, such as collaborative View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
importing country. We cross check our results in number of ways. Our results, which differ from findings using Penn World Tables data, caution against discounting a role for the higher price of capital goods in explaining the higher relative price of capital to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne