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- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
Working PapersIf You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry Abstract Household financial market participation affects... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
rock the boat when they are leaving," speculates Ma. By contrast, when Ma and Khanna measured the effects of firm performance on likelihood of dissent, they found a much lower correlation. A one unit increase in the ratio of a firm's market value to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
instant availability of funds invested in liquid assets overseas, thereby limiting firms’ ability to rapidly and/or aggressively respond to competitive market conditions. More specifically, we show that the effects of cash holdings on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18
designs for the key technologies required and had a working prototype, an understanding of the manufacturing processes to be used, and a list of the components required. They also had a design prototype that they had used to conduct customer tests and establish... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
Imagine a retail chain that offers customers not only the lowest prices but also personalized customer service. Employees receive above-average wages and 20 times more training than the average American retailer. Sounds like a recipe for... View Details
- 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10
Shipbroker's Association, introduced a proposal to value ships using discounted cash flow analysis (to determine a long-term asset value, LTAV) rather than market prices from comparable transactions. Thomas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
has researched stock price manipulation in Japan and looked specifically at firms like Livedoor. He says the Livedoor episode may, in the end, do some good by paving the road for reform of Japan's "abysmal" corporate governance.... View Details
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
headquarters reminds us that a brand is a precious asset. The value of any brand asset depends upon whether it has delivered on its past promises and is believed likely to do so in the future. It takes years of effort to build brand trust... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
formation in which investors learn about the fundamental value of an asset and trade it. We study the interaction of diagnostic expectations with two well-known mechanisms: learning from prices and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
statistics. In an environment often eager for simple answers, many reflections surrounding the fifth anniversary of Lehman's collapse suggest that the financial system is riskier today because it is more concentrated. Indeed, there are fewer banks, and View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Pflueger, Carolin E., Emil Siriwardane, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We propose a new measure of the economy’s risk appetite based on the valuation of volatile stocks. Unlike proxies for risk appetite derived from aggregates, our measure is strongly correlated with safe... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
inflows predict no change in the discount, but forecast positive changes in both net asset values and closed-end fund prices. This fact also contradicts the price pressure story, which predicts the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
came up with surprising results: Between 2002 and 2007 (the years covered by the database), public firms increased their gross fixed assets (as a percentage of total assets) by 4.0 percent a year on average versus 9.7 percent at similar... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Abstract— We document a strong effect of pension and insurance company (P&I) assets on the long end of the yield curve. Using data from 26 countries, the yield spread between 30-year and 10-year government bond yields is negatively... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18
March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
Authors:Eric J. Van den Steen Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a theory of the firm in which a firm's centralized asset ownership and low-powered incentives give the manager, as an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009
Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns Authors:Christopher J. Malloy, Tobias J. Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We provide new evidence on the success of long-run... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
it creates a legally independent project company and finances that company with nonrecourse debt (i.e., the debt must be repaid by cash flows from the project company only.) The relevant question is: Why would a firm choose to finance its View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
downside on toxic assets that are actually purchased. Moreover, the partnerships are likely not to set a market price on many toxic assets, because the government will not provide generous subsidies to buy... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
difficulty to their struggle to grow and succeed. 3. The impact of intangible assets on economic transactions: I plan to study commercial transactions in which finances are not the sole currency of exchange, and intangibles like status... View Details