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  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

Abstract We examine the effect of mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption on firms' information environment. We find that after mandatory IFRS adoption, consensus forecast errors decrease for firms that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27

forecasts of holding period returns strongly predict the cross section of future returns up to three years ahead. We document a highly significant predictive pooled regression slope for future quarterly returns of 0.86, whereas the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

include positioning strategies, choosing the proper channel, potential partnerships, manufacturing issues, market analysis, and PR management. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507016 Demand and Supply View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

  Working PapersThe Rise of Business Forecasting Agencies in the United States Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract This paper analyzes the rise of business and economic forecasting agencies in the United... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

By: Kaplan, Robert S., Derek A. Haas, and Jonathan Warsh Abstract—The prevailing fee-for-service payment model has led health care administrators and physician practices to impose severe constraints on the time physicians spend talking,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

Abstract Stigmatized minorities may have an advantage in persuading majority group members during some face-to-face interactions due to the greater self-presentational demands such interactions elicit. In contrast to models which predict... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009

Competition Between Differentiated Products with Demand for More Than One Variety Author: Andrei Hagiu Abstract We analyze the existence of pure strategy symmetric price equilibria in a generalized version of Salop's (1979) circular model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future policy uncertainty. It then measures the excess burden... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

Interest Rates Author:Luis M. Viceira Publication:International Journal of Forecasting (forthcoming) Abstract This paper explores time variation in bond risk, as measured by the covariation of bond returns with stock returns and with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

One explanation for these patterns is that U.S. firms are organized in a way that allows them to use new technologies more efficiently. A model of endogenously chosen organizational form and IT is developed to explain these new micro and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

autonomous, product-focused model to an account-centered matrix structure and will challenge many elements of the company's current organizational design including accountability, revenue and cost allocation, compensation systems, sales... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

  Working PapersOn Best-Response Bidding in GSP Auctions Authors:Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna R. Karlin, Claire Mathieu, and Michael Schwarz Abstract How should players bid in keyword auctions such as those used by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

where top execs tested whether the current business model was robust enough for the challenges lying ahead. While LEGO has sold toys in Asia for three decades, there is serious potential to improve market share and maybe even outgrow... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

  Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters By: Friedman, Walter A. Abstract—The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2020
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How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

  Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a simple View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

Missing Quarterly Analysts Forecasts (revised) Authors:Richard Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We find that missing the quarterly analyst consensus earnings forecast is associated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

firms. They also affect trading signal classifications, back-testing inferences, track records of individual analysts, and models of analysts' career outcomes in the three years following the changes. Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation

comparison to a store that is having a sale." In fact, customer behavior in general—unpredictable under the best of circumstances—becomes even more erratic during liquidation events, he notes. For their work with Gordon Brothers Group, Craig and Raman developed a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18

forecast characteristic-related stock returns. For example, we show that large firms underperform following years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms. Our approach is useful for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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