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  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

delivered $20 million or more each year in cost savings, with capital expenditures of less than $500,000 total. "We're talking $80 million out of a $400 million cost structure," says Sutton, "and it isn't that amazing, once... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

expenditures, to manage earnings to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product, which can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2006
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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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

financial autonomy to collect export taxes and spend on public goods. The argument is that trade shocks affect asymmetrically the tax revenues of state governments and, thus, their expenditures on elementary education per capita according... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product which can be easily stockpiled by end-consumers as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

look at the crystal business by itself. They might say that at such high service levels, they are not profitable. But you have to ask the question, if the best customers are not served well in this department, what impact might it have on their View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 04 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 4

for a reduction in financial expenditures due to the subsidies accompanying loans. However, BNDES does not systematically lend to underperforming firms. Our results indicate that BNDES subsidizes firms that could fund their projects with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

micro data sets, we show that investors are indeed far more likely to consume from dividends than capital gains. In the Consumer Expenditure Survey, household consumption increases with dividend income, controlling for total wealth, total... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

lifecycle analysis, food waste is a major factor,” having tremendous harmful environmental impacts due to the unnecessary expenditure of natural resources to grow products that consumers don’t actually use, plus the additional emissions... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

through its development bank (BNDES), we find a positive effect of those stakes on firms' return on assets and on the capital expenditures of financially constrained firms with investment opportunities. However, these positive effects are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to develop a method for flexibly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

boards (SBs) on managers' behavior and on long-run firm value using a natural experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a SB on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find that the law led to an increase in Tobin's Q, increased investment in capital View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

hospitals’ use of managing accruals or cutting discretionary expenditures. Next, I find that hospital managers prefer overbilling to managing accruals (cutting discretionary expenditures) when cutting discretionary expenditures (managing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

and the $6 billion Oyu Tolgoi copper mine expansion in Mongolia (2014). Globally, firms financed a record $415 billion in capital expenditures using project finance in 2013, and the use of project-financed investment has grown at a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

capital potentially available for investment, as R&D and other future-oriented expenditures are already deducted in computing it. Our analysis and data can help explain why investment has been increasing and cash balances have been... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a SBs on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find that the law led to an increase in Tobin's Q. Examining mechanisms for the change in firm value, we find that managers protected by a SB increased investment in capital View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

leading center for diabetes care, clinician training, and research. The incidence of diabetes is rising precipitously worldwide, challenging quality of life with its complications and rapidly accelerating health care expenditures for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

escalation in movie advertising expenditures over time. Yet, the returns to movie advertising are poorly understood. The main reason is that disentangling the causal effect of advertising on movie sales is difficult because of the classic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

and has real investment implications: approximately 75% of the debt issuance funds increased capital expenditures and cash acquisitions. In the cross section, misvaluation affects financially constrained firms the most, supporting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

about the causes of regional variations in health care expenditures. We use vignettes from patient and physician surveys linked to fee-for-service Medicare expenditures to test whether patient demand-side factors or physician supply-side... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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