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- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
has proved to be as controversial as was public ownership. The huge investment in infrastructure has to be paid for one way or the other, a fact that government officials in the developing world tended rather wistfully to overlook. Moreover, private investors demanded... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
can also play an important role in facilitating within-country migration. In the face of physical, informational and social barriers to migration, firms with nationwide hiring practices can benefit from facilitating the migration of high... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
apply for a business loan they’re left in the dark. Lack of universal disclosure in business lending is particularly worrisome amidst the rise of online lending as loans originated online can bear high price tags, with annual percentage... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
2015 University of Chicago Press Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy By: Goldfarb, Avi, Shane Greenstein, and Catherine Tucker, eds. Abstract—As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has decreased, economic activity has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19
the mechanism for providing worker insurance developed stronger venture capital markets over 1990-2008, especially in high volatility sectors. In this context, policy mechanisms are more important than the overall level of worker... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
profit-maximizing firm, such as Apple, that offers content available at positive prices. We characterize the size of the p2p network as a function of the firm's pricing strategy, and show that the firm may be better off setting high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
different economic systems. In particular, two equilibria might arise: one with low taxes and a belief that the income-generating process is "fair" because effort is important (an "American" equilibrium) and another with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
process helps improve the dealer's profit by at least $269. These estimates suggest a potentially high return to taking the "information-based" approach to pricing idiosyncratic products. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
Consistent with predictions, results reveal that portfolios of level 3 financial assets have higher implied betas and lead to larger bid-ask spreads relative to those designated as level 1 or level 2 assets. Both results are consistent with a higher View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1953–2009, it was unusually high in the early 1980s and negative in the 2000s, particularly in the downturns of 2000–2002 and 2007–2009. This paper specifies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
cost increases to consumers. This was no longer possible after deregulation. Most of the legacy carriers had a considerable amount of difficulty adjusting to the new environment, and many of the airlines went through several failed... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
Most individuals who had converted bonds for shares in 1711 and 1719 had seen their South Sea shares appreciate in the meantime, and the government had lowered its debt-servicing costs as a result of these two conversions. The conversion... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007
out less-intensive users of the product. High prices do not cause greater product use than low prices for a given buyer, but there is some evidence that the act of paying increases use. Our estimates imply that positive prices may be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
to then cover their positions once asset prices start recovering. Predation leads to profits of about 25 basis points over ten days and increases the liquidation costs for the distressed fund by 40%. These results suggest a broker’s role... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
that women often leave client service to work in industry where they experience better work/life quality but limit their ultimate career progression. Her team focuses on creating policies to influence the costs and benefits of those... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
doctor recommendations, tests, or prescriptions." This is illustrated by the fact that some of the most common conditions such as high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression addressed by DTCA are often under-diagnosed or under-treated... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
on mainframes. DEC moved up-market with a much lower cost structure and eventually attacked IBM. In the newspaper industry, we saw that firms can overcome this resource commitment problem by recognizing the challenge and framing the... View Details
- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
American Economic Review The Costs of Sovereign Default: Evidence from Argentina By: Hébert, Benjamin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—We estimate the causal effect of sovereign default on the equity returns of Argentine firms. We identify... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne