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  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

total value of tailored coupons that shoppers stand to lose if they go elsewhere. Store-switching costs created this way increase the spending and loyalty of shoppers. For retailers lacking the capability of using information about their... View Details
Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

government intervention, two of the principal forces that influence variation in firm profitability. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54835 forthcoming Journal of Economics & Management Strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

feedback influence order quantities. We find that the portion of mismatch cost due to adjustment behavior exceeds the portion of mismatch cost due to level behavior in three out of four conditions.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Read the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38648 The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

culture. We also find wide variation across variables for ratings consistency among analysts covering the same firm. On average, consistency is higher for sell-side than buy-side analysts, consistent with sell-side analysts facing greater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

Fritscher, and Martina Viarengo Abstract—We show how the decentralization of fiscal responsibility among Brazilian states between 1889 and 1930 promoted an unequal expansion of public schooling. We document how the variation in state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when revenue and cash flow decline, internal View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

than smaller menus, as measured by the maximum Sharpe ratio achievable. We propose a model in which menu setters differ in their ability to pre-select the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the menu size is sufficiently small,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

sorting. We exploit the exogenous variation in the pricing systems experienced during the 1999-2008 decade by the 95 municipalities in the district of Treviso (Italy). We estimate with a panel analysis that pay-as-you-throw (PAYT)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

that attempts to maximize profits. This stage takes into account costs as well as firm's objectives and constraints (e.g., minimum market share requirement). Over the last several decades, marketing researchers and practitioners have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

  PublicationsThe Power of Political Voice: Women's Political Representation and Crime in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra, and Petia Topalova Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Using state-level View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

of collective action. While the available evidence is generally consistent with these theories, there is a dearth of quality evidence. Moreover, a large part of the variation in access to public goods seems to have nothing to do with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers Author:Michel Anteby Publication:Administrative Science Quarterly 55, no. 4 (2010) Abstract This study examines the U.S. commerce in human cadavers for medical education and research to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

integration and delegation covary positively; (ii) producers are more likely to integrate suppliers in input sectors with greater productivity variation (as the option value of integration is greater); and (iii) producers are more likely... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

governance, human capital, and informational frictions help account for the variation in management. Publisher's link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20102 August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics Does Planning Regulation Protect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

the mandated setting. We also characterize settings where a mandated disclosure would be desirable or not; variations arise because mandated disclosures can increase both effort and risk. Our results imply that mandating the public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

variation in the degree of horizontal diversity, vertical (or hierarchical) diversity, and external (or client) diversity within each team. We find that ethnic diversity among teammates decreases team performance, while diversity along... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters that are much larger than the underlying... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

By: Kerr, William R., and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

through signature—e.g., at the end of tax returns or insurance policy forms. Yet even when people care about morality and want to be seen as ethical by others, they sometimes transgress when beneficial to their own self-interest, at great View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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