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- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
quality. Furthermore, the decay rate of athletics goodwill is smaller for students with lower SAT scores, suggesting that the goodwill created by intercollegiate athletics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
conditional compensation in the form of quota-bonus incentives to improve performance; however, it may lead to lower future performance. We find little evidence that effectiveness differs between a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
approaches can be reconciled through the Lean Strategy process, which ensures that startups innovate in a disciplined fashion and make the most of their limited resources by knowing "what not to do." Deliberate strategy sets the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
claim." When the global stock market and interest rates began to decline in 2000, many corporations faced a double whammy when returns on pension assets were well below expectations and pension... View Details
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
deficit that drives up interest rates. She cares if we have a huge current account deficit and import everything from elsewhere. Her own business might erode to the point of failure. Finally, the American... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn Reynolds Abstract—Objectives: To assess whether the addition of a peer testimonial to an informational mailing increases conversion View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
Sub-Saharan Africa and Maghreb. “Often times you see these immigrants are not always completely integrated into society,” says Pons. “Objectively, they have lower salaries and lower education, but more... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
greatest share of burden, possibly because of their responsibility for and interest in longer term solutions than commercial lenders? Who, other than a nation's citizens,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
of reasonable model parameters the firm's investment decision does not maximize expected profits. Surprisingly, this includes instances in which a firm with a higher quality investment opportunity finds it attractive to underinvest,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
makes up 33% of Lan's overall revenues (markedly different from many U.S. legacy carriers that derive 3% to 4% of revenues from cargo). Since a change of ownership in 1994, Lan... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
role of the American Economic Association (AEA) in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our committee. First, job market applicants now have a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
systematically give lower scores to research proposals closer to their own areas of expertise and to highly novel research proposals. We interpret the empirical patterns in relation to a range View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
the nation's cramped urban centers where vacancy rates held near zero and families often "doubled up" in single-housing units. Hoping to spark a burst of new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
a firm practicing by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper bound View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
the director and the quality of the prior LBO experience. This effect is robust to the most likely alternative explanations and supports the idea that directors and social networks play an influential role in change-of-control... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
complex way than the literature has previously suggested: a higher share of entrepreneurial peers leads to lower rather than higher subsequent rates View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
biased. But the "pricing" section of the website advises that new hosts set rates with market demand in mind. For example, Airbnb tells new hosts they "may want to charge lower... View Details
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
poverty, (3) the Pew Hispanic Center estimated that male illegal immigrants aged 18 to 64 had a very high 92 percent labor force participation rate in 2004, (4) rates of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett