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- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
Statistics Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints By: Garicano, Luis, and Claudia Steinwender Abstract—We introduce a novel empirical strategy to measure the size of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
cooperative, and there are deep disagreements about what is wrong and how to fix it. Provides an opportunity to analyze yields and productivity, as well as the organizational and personal challenges inherent in line-staff interaction.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
transport/ride launched in 1967), and numerous airports. However, these systems were largely designed to move a large number of people on a fixed schedule along a track from point to point to point. In today's revival, people movers are... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
labor materially alters pre-retirement portfolio choice by significantly raising optimal equity holdings. Using this model, we also investigate the welfare costs of constraining portfolio allocations over the life-cycle to mimic popular... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
Donald Trump has not issued an official platform on student debt, although he has referenced reducing college costs and lowering interest rates on student loans. Hillary Clinton has offered a variety of proposals. Echoing Bernie Sanders,... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
business model. If the model is characterized by increasing returns, demand begets still greater demand, as illustrated by eBay's success. A business may also benefit from significant scale economies if big up-front investments and fixed... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
One method multinationals use to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
standards, the fix would have added too much weight (in the form of stored chemicals) to the vehicle. One answer was to develop software that automatically turned off the noise reducer during emission testing. It was tempting, but... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
sellers’ cost structures and capacities. When fixed costs of entry are high, sellers with small capacities may be deterred from entering the market because of their inability... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
stagnant since the 1970s. We now worry about government-caused asset bubbles. Governments must avoid doing this because asset bubbles benefit virtually no one and harm nearly everyone. Cleaning up the mess is a deadweight cost to society... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
suggest that in many commonly regulated markets in which firms share similar cost structures, firms are likely to experience incentives to ratchet down and delay the introduction of innovative products. The study highlights the importance... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
fix those problems. The researchers studied a sampling of data from Hazel Analytics, which gathers food safety inspections from local governments across the United States. The sample included information on 12,017 inspections by 86... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
hand, if there is only mild competition, then competing platforms induce more search diversion relative to a platform monopolist. When platforms charge consumers fixed access fees, all equilibrium levels of search diversion under platform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
perceptions framework is of a single-stage stochastic inventory system with periodic review, constant lead times, infinite supply, full backlogging, linear holding and penalty costs and no ordering costs. Forecasting ARIMA time series... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
help companies with fundamentally viable businesses become financially stronger and more competitive. The Bankruptcy Code achieves this by giving companies a "safe harbor" while they restructure their liabilities, buying time for them to View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
the commissions. After deregulation of rates in 1975, commission rates predictably dropped, and the brokerages were left with a fixed cost of sell-side analyst operations and a shortfall in revenues to fund... View Details
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
contracts.” In fixed-price contracts, the supplier provides a product or service to the government at a fixed price. In cost-plus contracts, the supplier bills the government based on reported production View Details
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit. One lesson is clear: Businesses that provide higher-quality service and maintain a solid reputation can become more insulated from market shocks, such as increases in fixed costs. The... View Details