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  • 23 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 23

intervention.   Working PapersWhen Smaller Menus Are Better: Variability in Menu-Setting Ability Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract Are large menus better than small menus? Recent literature argues that individuals' apparent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

search results to show either exclusively Google reviews (Google’s current tying strategy) or reviews from multiple platforms determined to be the best-performing by Google’s own organic search algorithm. We find that users prefer the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

types of work Cash rewards are best suited as a motivator for work that is measured quantitatively, Whillans says. Many studies of the service and sales industries show that cash rewards lead to increased sales and improved customer... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006

national male circumcision rates for African countries are both a strong predictor of HIV/AIDS prevalence and uncorrelated with other determinants of economic outcomes. Two-stage least squares regressions do not support the hypotheses that AIDS has had any View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

mistakes. But there is another approach: alter the environment in ways that encourage people to make decisions that lead to good outcomes. Publisher's link: https://hbr.org/2015/05/leaders-as-decision-architects April 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

effective nonprofits and away from underperforming ones. We illustrate how innovative information and financial intermediaries, using new measurement approaches tailored for the nonprofit sector, have recently arisen to help direct funds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

Accounting & Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2020
  • Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

increase air flow and quality can have dramatic effects on workers. Click HereJohn Macomber and Joseph Allen at a recent Books@Baker event. But the economic benefits don’t stop there. Macomber expects that a growing public focus on health View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

allocations for general, substitutable, and strongly substitutable preferences. Apart from obtaining "set inclusion results" on all three domains, we introduce weak setwise stability as a new stability concept and prove that for substitutable View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract— We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in six countries parsing granular CEO diary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22

take advantage of factor cost differences. Instead, multinationals tend to own the stages of production proximate to their final production, giving rise to a class of high-skill, intra-industry vertical FDI. Measuring and Managing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Maintaining a Resilient Democracy

Pensions Committee, which has a reputation for bipartisan cooperation. Harder’s suggestions to revitalize the system, on the other hand, include “revising arcane procedural rules that give obstructionists too much power to shelve proposals most Americans favor” and... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
  • 19 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

parties) have issued executive orders requiring federal agencies to use environmentally preferable products and services whenever possible, as has the European Commission. These procurement policies are specifically aimed to "spur private... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

worker. For this purpose, we use a standard version of the neoclassical growth model augmented to incorporate monopolistic competition among heterogeneous firms. For our preferred calibration, the model explains 58% of the log variance of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

The Exchange: Chance Encounters

remotely and how productive they were. It was striking to see that people thought they were much more productive at home. But they also used real numbers to measure productivity and saw the exact opposite in the non-subjective... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

questions about what model is best suited to the integration of nonfinancial concerns. Does the joint pursuit of commercial and social objectives require new ways of organizing? In this essay we argue that it does. Or at least—to put our thesis in more View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

at the individual level. We discuss the implications of our results for the study of learning as well as for providers and consumers of outsourced services. Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Golosov,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

This relationship between the tax preferences of institutional shareholders and firm payout policy could reflect dividend-averse institutions gravitating to low-dividend paying-firms or managers adapting their payout policies to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

Protection Agency (US EPA) program that encourages companies to self-disclose violations of environmental laws and regulations in exchange for reduced sanctions. We find that facilities are more likely to self-disclose if they were recently subjected to one of several... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

to an orthodoxy of capital controls in 1944 and then back again by 1994? How have such standards of appropriate behavior been codified and transmitted internationally? Contrary to conventional accounts, Abdelal argues that neither the U.S. Treasury nor Wall Street... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace