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  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

report data from an experiment where subjects in a Willpower Treatment are asked to resist the temptation to join others in watching a humorous video for 10 minutes. In relation to a baseline treatment that does not require willpower, we show that resisting this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

Publications The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Harvard Business Press Books, 2012 Abstract Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

according to the organization’s long-term values and goals. Surprisingly, we find that the intervention drove even higher effort on performance associated with pre-existing monetary incentives, but, on average, did not affect nonfinancial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

  PublicationsAnnual Review of Financial Economics Editors:Andrew W. Lo and Robert C. Merton Publication:Vol. 1. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, 2009 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Book Abstract:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

breach leads to feelings of violation and can occur even when employees’ economic contracts are fulfilled. We study the effects of psychological contract breach on three common types of employee participation in budgeting that differ in... View Details
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

as well as economic value and who pair micromanagement with big-picture aspirations about the future. The authors, who have studied, taught, and interviewed executives in some of the world's leading companies, assert that such leaders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees Authors:Ian Larkin, Lamar Pierce, and F. Gino Abstract Most research linking compensation to strategy relies on agency theory economics and focuses on executive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

monetary rewards are at stake (Study 3). The tendency to infer dislike from dissimilarity is driven by a belief that others have a narrow and homogeneous range of preferences (Study 5). Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

so the happiness gains that they experience, whilst not permanent, can still be relatively long-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic growth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1

Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Halaburda Abstract The economic literature on choice focuses on individuals' decisions when faced with a given menu. However, the menu itself is often the result of preselection by a menu setter. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

Hierarchies Authors:Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf Publication:American Economic Journals: Applied Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

political road to fiscal crisis; the economics of that crisis and efforts to recover from it; the danger the crisis posed to the euro; cooperation and conflict among European states, the European Central Bank, and the International View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2017
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How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

Leigh Day—and six decades after the Kenyan rebels were detained and tortured, the British government settled out of court with some 5,500 Kikuyu detention camp survivors. The monetary payout was 19.9 million pound sterling, the equivalent... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52217 2016 Monetary Policy Through Asset Markets: Lessons from Unconventional Measures and Implications for an Integrated World Forward Guidance in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

about favorable future policy changes. A lab experiment involving monetary bets on the future popularity of politicians and a field experiment involving political donations (N = 660,542) demonstrated that BFF can influence people’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39914 Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations By: Exley, Christine L. Abstract—Do monetary incentives encourage volunteering? Or, do they introduce a "greedy"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

way. Publisher's link: http://www.amacombooks.org/book.cfm?isbn=9780814434093 Forthcoming Journal of Public Economics No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery. By: Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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