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- 17 Sep 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Penalties for Wrong Answers on the Gender Gap in Test Scores
- April 1, 2020
- Article
Coronavirus Is Putting Corporate Social Responsibility to the Test
By: Mark R. Kramer
A great many large companies talk about their values, or about how much they care for their employees and other stakeholders. The coronavirus crisis is the time for them to make good on that commitment. The author offers some things that corporations can do to help... View Details
Kramer, Mark R. "Coronavirus Is Putting Corporate Social Responsibility to the Test." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (April 1, 2020).
- February 2006
- Article
R-squared Around the World: New Theory and New Tests
Keywords: Theory
Jin, Li, and Stewart C. Myers. "R-squared Around the World: New Theory and New Tests." Journal of Financial Economics 79, no. 2 (February 2006): 257–92.
- September–October 2002
- Article
Putting Strategy Hypotheses to the Test with Cause-and-Effect Analysis
By: Dennis Campbell
Campbell, Dennis. "Putting Strategy Hypotheses to the Test with Cause-and-Effect Analysis." Balanced Scorecard Report 4, no. 5 (September–October 2002).
Airbnb During the Pandemic—Stakeholder Capitalism Faces a Critical Test
As the covid pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the... View Details
A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties
The strength of weak ties is an influential social-scientific theory that stresses the importance of weak associations (e.g., acquaintance versus close friendship) in influencing the transmission of information through social networks. However, causal tests of... View Details
- 22 May 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Testing Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24
- December 2013 (Revised September 2017)
- Case
Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance
By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
The widespread cheating scandal that rocked the Atlanta public school system in 2010 and 2011 illustrates how high-stakes performance pressure, without sufficient risk controls, can drive dangerous behavior. After becoming superintendent of the low-income and... View Details
Keywords: Atlanta; Test; Testing; Standardized Test; Standardized Testing; No Child Left Behind; NCLB; Cheating; Performance Pressure; Measurement; Incentives; Atlanta Public Schools; Management; Leadership; Ethics; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Performance Expectations; Risk Management; Education; Education Industry; United States; Georgia (state, US); Atlanta
Simons, Robert, and Natalie Kindred. "Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance." Harvard Business School Case 114-001, December 2013. (Revised September 2017.)
- Research Summary
Structural Breaks in Dynamic Factor Models: Representation and Testing (with James Stock and Mark Watson)
We demonstrate the equivalence of various of structural break representations for approximate dynamic factor models and show that even in the presence of such breaks, the estimated factors consistently span the fundamental factor subspaces. We propose tests to... View Details
Time Series Experiments and Causal Estimands: Exact Randomization Tests and Trading
We define causal estimands for experiments on single time series, extending the potential outcome framework to dealing with temporal data. Our approach allows the estimation of a broad class of these estimands and exact... View Details
- 1996
- Other Unpublished Work
Testing for Structural Change in the Predictability of Asset Returns
By: Luis M. Viceira
Viceira, Luis M. "Testing for Structural Change in the Predictability of Asset Returns." 1996.
- March 1987
- Article
Using Survey Data to Test Standard Propositions Regarding Exchange Rate Expectations
By: J. Frankel and K. A. Froot
Keywords: Currencies; Exchange Rates; Asset Pricing; International Macroeconomics; Monetary Policy; Currency Controls; Fixed Exchange Rates; Floating Exchange Rates; Currency Bands; Currency Zones; Currency Areas; Rational Expectations; Analytics and Data Science; Finance
Frankel, J., and K. A. Froot. "Using Survey Data to Test Standard Propositions Regarding Exchange Rate Expectations." American Economic Review 77, no. 1 (March 1987): 133–153. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 1672.)
- 12 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted
Global supply chains took some heat during the COVID-19 pandemic, with consumers waiting months for goods and politicians wringing their hands over trade policy. “Reshoring” is one of the hottest new corporate buzzwords, as many companies look to move some... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 1980
- Chapter
Tests of Capital Market Theory and Implications of the Evidence
By: Michael Jensen
Jensen, Michael. "Tests of Capital Market Theory and Implications of the Evidence." In Handbook of Financial Economics, edited by J. L. Bicksler. North-Holland Publishing Company, 1980. (Originally published in Is Financial Analysis Useless? Proceedings of a Seminar on the Efficient Market and Random Walk Hypotheses (The Financial Analysts Research Foundation, 1975).)
- March 1995
- Article
Tests of Conditional Mean-Variance Efficiency of the U.S. Stock Market
By: C. Engel, J. Frankel, Kenneth A. Froot and T. Rodrigues
Keywords: Risk Aversion; Risk; International Investing; CAPM; Capital Asset Pricing; International Finance; Risk and Uncertainty; Asset Pricing; Financial Markets; Foreign Direct Investment; Behavioral Finance; United States
Engel, C., J. Frankel, Kenneth A. Froot, and T. Rodrigues. "Tests of Conditional Mean-Variance Efficiency of the U.S. Stock Market." Journal of Empirical Finance 2 (March 1995). (Revised from NBER Working Paper Nos. 2890, March 1989 and 4292, March 1993, "Conditional Mean-Variance Efficiency of the U.S. Stock Market," March 1993.)
- February 2002
- Article
Endogenous Policy Decentralization: Testing the Central Tenet of Economic Federalism
By: Koleman Strumpf and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Strumpf, Koleman, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "Endogenous Policy Decentralization: Testing the Central Tenet of Economic Federalism." Journal of Political Economy 110, no. 1 (February 2002): 1–36.
- Article
Public Goods and Posterity: An Empirical Test of Intergenerational Altruism
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "Public Goods and Posterity: An Empirical Test of Intergenerational Altruism." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 13, no. 2 (April 2003): 165–176.
- 13 Dec 2016
- News
Global Deals That Made Exxon’s CEO Now Pose Big Test
- 23 Jun 2021
- News