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  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

years. We argue that the current world economic conjuncture is the product of a large and unusual divergence or "wedge" between the returns on capital and the cost of capital. Globalization—in particular the integration of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

is being abandoned by the two remaining large capital exporters—the U.K. and Japan—that had maintained similar regimes. The conundrum facing policymakers is how to reconcile mounting pressures for increased tax burdens on foreign activity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

differences in the price of capital across countries. Our strategy is motivated by the fact that most countries import the bulk of machinery equipment (from a small number of industrialized countries). We find the price of imported... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

orphaned oil fields). These changes necessarily affect the way the industry thinks about diversifying its portfolio in the future and encourages one of the largest contributors to GHG to innovate in climate technology to survive (e.g., retro-fitting the oil fields,... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

data cover two field experiments run by a large stock-photography agency. We find that substantially reducing the requested amount generates a small increase in the settlement rate. However, for the same... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

backgrounds―history, economics, law, and political science―in an effort to begin a re-conceptualization of the origins and history of political economy through a variety of still largely distinct but complementary historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

  Publications August 2013 Modernizing Insurance Regulation Comparative Regulation of Market Intermediaries: Insights from the Indian Life Insurance Market By: Anagol, Santosh, Shawn A. Cole, and Shayak... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016

by performing automated evaluation of the quality of writing, sentiment estimation, and topic extraction. By analyzing 5,830 reviews from 57 hotels in Moscow, Russia, we find that (i) negative reviews tend to focus on a small number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

help demystify the frustrating experience and could, if adopted, result in improvements to the US air traffic control system. Fearing's interest in improving performance extends to how a large governmental organization like the Federal... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

growth, and the estate tax. The treatment has large effects on views about inequality but only slightly moves tax and transfer policy preferences. An exception is the estate tax-informing respondents of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

fundamentals: the book-to-market ratio and expected ROE. We find that the model is easily applied to a large cross section of firms and that firm-level discount rates vary over time and are highly persistent. The model can forecast stock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

world (South Korea: 2 percent vs. world: 7 percent). Even taking into account the country’s population, South Korea’s number of cases per capita is substantially lower than those of other countries. The United States (with more than 1.7... View Details
Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

variation in the use of in-house rather than independent advertising agencies by U.S. advertisers. While the vast majority of large advertisers employ outside agencies, it comes as a surprise to find that when advertisers of all sizes are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

for systemically risky firms that would take a holistic look at the five systems to identify weaknesses, make recommendations to managers and boards, and set regulatory policies, including assessing charges for insuring against losses.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

generations of a customer-satisfaction program at a large American retailer, dubbed "Alpha Corporation" for the sake of confidentiality. The first of Alpha's customer satisfaction programs, launched in the early 1990s, fell... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

dampen competition, both online and in-store, and its effectiveness in this respect depends on the decision-making stage of various consumers and the heterogeneity of their preference for the online vs. store channels. Surprisingly,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

employer and employee, Nomad manages the process, from background checks to malpractice insurance to payroll. It charges health care institutions a 15 percent commission for each hire—a transparency unheard of in a sector in which the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

productivity and performance has been largely hidden or unnoticed or even ignored by economists and others. The philosophical discourse, and common usage as reflected in dictionary definitions, leave an overlap and confusion among the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

gun policy. First, mass shootings evoke large policy responses. A single mass shooting leads to a 15% increase in the number of firearm bills introduced in a state in the year after a mass shooting. Second, mass shootings account for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne