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- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
the footprint are outsourced—module boundaries are redrawn and interfaces designed for this purpose. The result is an invested capital advantage, which can be used to drive the returns of competitors below their cost of capital. We explain how this strategy works and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
in the path-breaking work on authoritarian regimes. In this paper, we take a deeper look at political institutions in the two countries, demonstrating that profound differences between the polities directly View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
impact of mourning rituals after losses-of loved ones, lovers, and lotteries-on mitigating grief. Participants who were directed to reflect on past rituals or who were assigned to complete novel rituals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Festival-Beyond the Festival Template Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), dubbed "the greatest literary show on earth" was an annual event held in late January at the Diggi Palace in Jaipur. JLF provided a platform for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
penetrated the field of negotiation and then presents a framework for bridging the gap between these two literatures. The paper notes that one of the reasons for its limited impact View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
Prioritizing such goals would work against having taxes based on personal characteristics. Now, if the gain in terms of reduced total sacrifice were large enough from taxing height, we might do it despite the cost in terms of other goals.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
strategy and finance and examine their use in understanding the history of how firms allocated resources to uncertain international ventures. Finally, we look at the question of the diffusion of the benefits of globalization and its View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
that prosocial spending is associated with greater happiness around the world, in poor and rich countries alike. To test for causality, in Studies 2a and 2b, we used experimental methodology, demonstrating that recalling a past instance of prosocial spending has a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
note discusses the significant impact venture philanthropy has had on the nonprofit sector despite its small size relative to total philanthropic giving. Venture philanthropists make large, multi-year,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
Leaders of organizations in the social sector are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. We review the debates around performance and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
August 2013 Management Science The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance By: Eccles, Robert G., Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Abstract—We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
industries), and that there is a tight relationship between the direct impact of a shock and the magnitudes of the downstream and the upstream indirect effects. We then investigate the short-run propagation of four different types of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
strength is certainly important, many other factors influence where each party ends up. This article presents four factors that can have a tremendous impact on negotiation outcomes and provides guidance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
shareholders used to protect themselves by examining the dividend policy and governance of over 800 publicly traded companies at the beginning of the 1880s. We assess the importance of these mechanisms by estimating their impact View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
VAT adoption worldwide, but there is surprisingly little evidence. This paper analyzes the role of third-party information for VAT enforcement through two randomized experiments among over 400,000 Chilean firms. Announcing additional monitoring has less View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
significantly reduces dishonesty. When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on Team Performance Authors:L.P. Tost, F. Gino, and R. Larrick Publication:Academy of Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13
Publications January 2015 Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Agglomeration and Innovation By: Carlino, Gerald, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne