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  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

framework—that lets executives map the institutional contexts of any country. Economics 101 tells us that companies buy inputs in the product, labor, and capital markets and sell their outputs in the products (raw materials and finished... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha
  • 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

a constructive identification result where the causal price parameter can be expressed as a function of the covariance of unobserved shocks. The function is estimated efficiently by the output of ordinary least squares regression. Thus,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

discrete regime shifts in 1977 and 2000. The increase in bond risks after 1977 is attributed primarily to a shift in monetary policy towards a more anti-inflationary stance, while the more recent decrease in bond risks after 2000 is attributed to a renewed focus on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

necessary? How could he keep people engaged as the nature of the work evolved in some instances to become more predictable? What new systems and processes were needed to ensure a steady output of high quality work? Lebowitz was proud that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

this question. These firms constitute significant fractions of economic output and investment in most large economies, suggesting that they could create significant economic linkages. Aggregate measures of rates of return and investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

easing off the growth accelerator, can Chile overcome this loss? A: Not easily. Chilean copper output has fallen over 14 per cent in one year. While Chileans got used to nearly 5 per cent annual growth during the 2000s, the economy hasn’t... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1

and output markets are strongly linked to higher establishment entry rates. We also find substantial evidence for the Chinitz effect where small local incumbent suppliers encourage entry. The importance of agglomeration economies for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

database. Conclusions—Major benefits of the model include its basis in expert judgment, its straightforward application, the flexibility of transforming its output ratings to any linear scale, and its ease of interpretation. This metric... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

industries and exploit cross-section and time-series variation in import tariffs to examine their impact on firm boundaries. Our empirical results provide strong support for the view that output prices are a key determinant of vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

traditional in-line or V-oriented 6, 8, or 12 cylinder gas or diesel engine. A two-stroke engine is cheaper to build and has higher power output than a four-stroke engine but historically has been more polluting. At present in the U.S.,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

traditional organizations for coordinating the collective efforts of creative workers. However, it is surprising that they result in any productive output as individuals often work without direct monetary incentives while collaborating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 22 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

world output and thus consumption and living standards. On the basis of a simple model with just two countries and two goods, he showed that every country—even one enjoying an absolute productivity advantage in both goods—would benefit... View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Moss
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

operating in preferred ways). We present an incomplete-contracts model in which vertical integration raises output at the expense of lower private benefits. A key implication is that higher prices should result in more integration, since... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

innovation, especially in the life sciences in areas such as stem cell research, requires buildings that must be flexible and readily converted to new and different uses. What will be published or other output from the colloquium? The... View Details
Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

addresses this gap and develops a theoretical background for further theoretical and empirical work on interorganizational cooperation between not-for-profits. We emphasize that for not-for-profits, unlike for-profits, neither inputs nor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

model choices aimed at increasing volume such as building new stores, increasing product variety, everyday low prices (EDLP), and high-powered incentives for store managers. Input and output prices played a smaller role under David Glass... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

five months-cut defects by half, reduced inventory by 20%, and raised output by 10%. A control group saw no such gains. The authors' global data set suggests that implementing good management at schools and hospitals yields change more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

decisions are driven by a tradeoff between managers' pecuniary benefits of coordinating production and their private benefits of operating in preferred ways. Integration generates more output than non-integration but imposes a cost on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

the sector, is that the metrics it uses to track its investments are largely output oriented, not outcome oriented. As an example, Acumen has invested in a Kenyan business that builds toilet and shower facilities in central business... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 29 Feb 2000
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Whence IT Value?

This fits pretty well with what we've observed about IT. While the percolation argument makes sense and is appealing, I believe there's something else going on. The jumps in inventory turns and output line up very nicely with the era of... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

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