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- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
(retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
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
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
rest in his book-lined office, the shovel he used to break ground on the school’s dormitory renovation project leaning against the wall. One of the lessons that Marietta learned is that there is no substitute for building on local...
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- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
income exogenously allocated—complementary decisions should be more colocated, whereas substitute decisions should be more distributed. Confident people with a lot at stake should—in a wide range of settings—get more control. Learning in...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
companies have attempted to renegotiate with Apple to set higher prices for new, more popular content. Our analysis suggests that this may be a bad idea because it is precisely for popular content that p2p is a better substitute for...
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- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
markets have become more pervasive, firms have used them badly. Two, we have seen leaders substitute market-based incentives for judgment and for standards where they shouldn't. Three, we have seen governance institutions compromising...
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by Kim B. Clark
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
analog film market. So instead of focusing only on digital imaging, the obvious substitute for analog photography, Fuji now has the opportunity to branch out into new markets that exploit its specialty chemical expertise. The challenges...
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- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
leadership at the top. This requires a more complete understanding of the processes of the company from a strategic perspective. That understanding implies that systems cannot substitute for management in the resource allocation process....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
favorable expectations when first- and third-party content are substitute (complements). These results hold with both simultaneous and sequential entry of the two sides. With two competing platforms-incumbent facing favorable expectations...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
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
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
question that has received less attention, however, is whether focus at the divisional level is complementary with, or a substitute for, focus at the firm level. We explore this question by considering the performance of investigative...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Art Nature Business
Catskill Mountains. Here Ford reworks Durand’s iconic painting, substituting Cole and Bryant with the writers Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne in the foreground, and inserting a McDonald’s restaurant in the background as his...
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- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Points out the roles of bilateral investment treaties and regional economic agreements in making arbitration accessible to an increasing number of foreign investors. Views the various arrangements as substitutes for a global agreement on...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
data, is computationally light and allows for flexible substitution patterns. We apply the model to a data set containing browsing and purchase information from a retailer stocking over 500 products, recover the elasticity matrix, and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
interdependence between the IGO network and the domestic institutions of states. The interdependence between these global and domestic institutional forms is complex, with target-country democracy being a substitute for economic IGOs, but...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
experiments are underway with professionals trying different ways of configuring and managing services. On that list I include experiments with disease management programs, substituting nurse practitioners for physicians in certain...
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- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
rapid appearance of clones drove a high level of standardization and modularity in the industry, and value was distributed along the value chain depending on levels of competition and ability to substitute components at each level. On the...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
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
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
led to widespread VAT adoption worldwide, but there is surprisingly little evidence. I find that the paper trail acts as a substitute to a firm's own audit risk. A message announcing increased tax enforcement has a much smaller effect on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
shown to users who performed similar searches, they find that Google's prominent placement of its Flight Search service increased the clicks on paid advertising listings by more than half while decreasing the clicks on organic search listings by about the same...
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Carmen Nobel