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  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the level of geographic aggregation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

U.S. Census Bureau's quinquennial Economic Census and the Service Annual Survey. These data, heretofore largely ignored, allow us to redress some of the measurement problems surrounding estimates found in the existing literature. Firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using U.S. Census microdata on firm-level output, R&D, and patenting. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

have favored higher-revenue companies. Should Motilal Oswal go public now, to take advantage of the hot Indian market, or hold off and build its revenue for a higher valuation? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

estimates of real consumption across countries without the need for consumer price index extrapolations. We discuss advantages and limitations associated with the use of online prices for PPPs, including issues of representativeness and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

single year. This paper first documents that moves between paid work and self-employment are common and consistent with experimentation to learn about entrepreneurial earnings. This pattern motivates estimating the expected returns to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

of the information externality exceeds the subsidy that would be necessary to operate the service. We estimate each dollar spent on the service yields a $10 private return. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

and face disincentive effects from taxation but acquire positive benefits from public infrastructure. Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model predicts an inverted-U... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

many others. In fact, a recent estimate from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners indicates that U.S. businesses lose approximately 7 percent of their annual revenues to various forms of unethical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

Blackstone Group, estimated that in the next four years this would result in Intelenet losing $160 million of revenue and $48 million of EBITDA. Blackstone could either channel large amounts of capital and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

in designing and assessing policy. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54968 Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data By: Amano, Tomomichi, Andrew Rhodes, and Stephan Seiler Abstract—Many online... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

empirical findings, we develop a theoretical model that explains when user innovations are commercialized by users, by manufacturers, or not commercialized at all. At the core of our model is the notion that users and manufacturers differ along two critical dimensions:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

healthcare providers with revenue cycle management and population health management; the case provides an overview of both sectors. Conifer has been growing rapidly, leading some to question what the best relationship is for Tenet and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

Journal: Economic Policy The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying By: Kerr, William R., William F. Lincoln, and Prachi Mishra Abstract—How is economic policy made? In this paper we study a key determinant of the answer to the question: lobbying by firms. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

tribes and U.S. states often find themselves at the bargaining table, often negotiating "compacts" to govern gaming operations on tribal lands. The operational success of the Pequot gaming operation in Connecticut, Foxwoods, and the substantial View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

regime supporters. Communities that attract higher rates of public sector employment forfeit higher levels of fiscal revenue by permitting informality. This complementarity between public sector employment and forbearance amplifies... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

coupon legality. We find that coupons increase branded sales by 60+ percent, entirely by reducing the sales of bioequivalent generics. During the five years following generic entry, we estimate that coupons increase total spending by $30... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

suggests that the effect of distance should vanish over time, a hypothesis that we confirm in the data and that distinguishes technology from other flows like goods or investments. We then structurally estimate the model. The parameter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

higher payout, greater leverage, higher CEO turnover, lower CEO compensation, and reduced investment. With the exception of the probability of being acquired, these estimated effects are generally greater when activists obtain board... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

types of earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the following... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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