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- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
Publication:The Accounting Review 86, no. 2 (March 2011) Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006
acquisition—underperform. Working paper not available. Crime and Punishment in the 'American Dream' Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra Abstract We observe that countries where belief in the "American dream" (i.e., effort... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
States. In short, their study shows that family CEOs on average work fewer hours relative to nonfamily-affiliated managers in all the countries they studied. Family Vs. Professional To launch the study, the researchers hired 15 students... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
It ended up being the best revenue-generating idea Bing ever had, worth $100 million. That experience illustrates why it’s critical to adopt an “experiment with everything” approach, say Kohavi, the head of the Analysis &... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
PublicationsThe Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Publication:Review of Marketing Science (forthcoming) Abstract We address a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016
of Monetary Policy By: Du, Wenxin, Carolin E. Pflueger, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—Nominal debt provides consumption-smoothing benefits if it can be inflated away during recessions. However, we document empirically that countries with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985 to 2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975 to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016
America Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
Foreign Direct Investment, Productivity, and Financial Development: An Empirical Analysis of Complementarities and Channels Authors:Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Publication:The World Economy (forthcoming). (Special... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
at the IASB. Based on how countries are classified along these dimensions, I offer predictions, ceteris paribus, on countries' IFRS harmonization strategies. The analysis and framework in this paper can help... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5
at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples from companies of all sizes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
Nava, Diego Aycinena, Claudia Martínez A., and Dean Yang Abstract—While remittance flows to developing countries are very large, it is unknown whether migrants desire more control over how remittances are used. This research uses a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19
Communist Party, which had ruled China since 1949. Xi inherited a country far more unequal than the one that Mao Zedong, Communist China's first leader, had left behind in 1978. The growth of markets had made China much wealthier but also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
Development, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and their counterparts in other OECD countries are all involved. Several years ago the various ministries of developed and developing countries got together... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
underlying reasons for their limited success. Our analysis of American Hospital Association (AHA) data on hospital-based ACOs found that many organizations do not have the capability to track and share performance metrics, including... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
independent and dispersed contributors made highly interdependent contributions to the design of a single technical system (or sub-system). Based on a detailed analysis of the latter 28, we introduce the concept of actionable transparency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
to Microsoft. This extension was motivated by analyzing data on a cross-section of countries on Linux penetration and piracy rates. We found that in countries where piracy is highest, Linux has the lowest... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
best adapt to differences in the basic institutions of capitalism and consumer preferences across countries as well as within them. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707521 Hallstead... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
startup organization for the thousands of employees who join a fledgling company and do the day-to-day work required to grow it into something of value. Entering StartUpLand is a practical, step-by-step guide that provides an insider's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
global cooperation, and promote cultural contact and awareness. We use a network approach to demonstrate that the connections between two countries through joint-membership in the same IGOs are associated with a large positive influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne