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- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
show that knowledge spillover shifts both distributions rightward while selection and reallocation raise the left truncation of the distributions and shift revenue leftward. Using a rich firm-level panel dataset that spans 60 countries,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?
the Internal Revenue Service is the federal tax gap, which is the difference between what Americans should pay on their taxes and what they actually do pay. According to the IRS's most recent estimates the... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
available to its customer-facing employees. In the spring of 2003, Bankinter introduced an Excel-based program called the Mortgage Simulator that helped branch managers calculate the price of a mortgage and estimate the customer lifetime... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
out less-intensive users of the product. High prices do not cause greater product use than low prices for a given buyer, but there is some evidence that the act of paying increases use. Our estimates imply that positive prices may be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal districts based upon their distance from the highway system. We find several positive effects for non-nodal districts located 0-10 km from GQ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
http://www.springerlink.com/content/91647u2175267563/ Ownership Structure and Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Structural Estimation Authors: Chen Lin, Yue Ma, and Yuhai Xuan Publication: Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
boost earnings to meet 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
level thanks to the extreme form of fiscal decentralization that the Brazilian government adopted in the Constitution of 1891, which gave states the sole right to tax exports. We also use indices of export prices for each state as instruments for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
evidence and had grown very rapidly. With the firm's CFO, they believed that the firm could grow from $58 million to $72 million, a growth rate of 27% over the preceding year. However, the firm's 11 offices had submitted first draft FY 2010 plans that together added up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
With a value estimated by Forbes magazine of over $480 million, the team ranks in the top third financially among MLB franchises. Even before last season’s title, the Giants’ fall pennant run yielded 4,000 new season ticket requests.... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
513-044 From modest beginnings as a cashew trader in Nigeria, Olam, founded by Indian nationals in 1989, has grown into a leading global agricultural trading company, with annual revenues of $14 billion. The company recently has begun... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
the right answer becomes the wrong answer," says MacCormack. "Being there on the ground and observing yourself is different from learning something in a report from afar." Mayo estimates that about a third of global... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Bezos’s Blue Origin was still three years away from launching its first test vehicle. Today, Morgan Stanley estimates that the global space economy is worth $350 billion—and projects that it will grow to $1 trillion by 2040. Garriott de... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Corstjens and Rajiv Lal Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for boosting View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
recouple consumer activities or rebalance the revenues generated from each activity. Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-417 What Is Global? Allocating Products and Activities Across Locations No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
particularly within a tenth of a mile, of a house lowers the price at which it is sold. Our preferred estimate of this effect is that a foreclosure at a distance of 0.05 miles lowers the price of a house by about 1%. Download the paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey and Rajgopal, 2005). We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 20% depending on the depth of promotion. But there is a price to pay, with the cost in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
the local level, and typically filled rural niches for consumer goods. At their peak in the early 1990s, an estimated 19 million TVEs operated across the country. By contrast, the SOEs were controlled by various government ministries at... View Details