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- 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
capabilities. There is no such impact for firms without this ecosystem of complements. Dynamic panel analysis, instrumental variables, and a variety of robustness checks are used to address measurement error concerns and to add support for a more View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940. We identify a causal relationship between patented inventions and long-run economic growth and outline a basic framework for analyzing key macro and micro-level determinants. We find a positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016
raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015
windfall ended, and the recipient countries experienced a significant uptick in civil war. To provide a causal interpretation we leverage a quasi-natural experiment of oil price induced aid disbursements that favored Muslim countries over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
Our results thus identify a causal effect of poverty on crime. They also lend credence to a large literature on the effects of weather shocks on crime and conflict, which has usually assumed that the income channel is the most relevant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20
well documented, little is known about why norms of silencing conflict evolve. To explore this evolution, we draw on an ethnographic study that spanned the entire life of a dot.com, starting with its founding and ending with its sale to a larger company. Distilling our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016
(a) fosters a longer-term perspective and (b) widens the firm’s scope; and ecosystem creation. While much of the dynamic capabilities literature has focused on testing causal relationships between key performance variables and constructs,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
welfare. Yet, our understanding of this decision is limited. Using an instrumental variables strategy and dataset new to this literature, we provide the first precise, causal estimates of the effects of education on financial market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
literature on globalization. At the crudest level, historical evidence avoids spurious labeling of some phenomena as "new," and by so doing can challenge current explanations of their determinants. Historical evidence is crucial to exploring the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
comfortable with the concepts of correlation and causation. This background note provides an overview of correlation and causation using examples and explains why the former does not imply the latter. It also describes several methods for gaining insights into View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
of work that differentiate a firm from its competitors, then meaning can be the foundation for sustainable competitive advantage. The causality can also run in the opposite direction; superior performance can enhance meaning insofar as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
headquarters to local plant managers in almost 4,000 firms in the United States, Europe, and Asia. We find that firms headquartered in high trust regions are more likely to decentralize, with trust accounting for about half of the variation in decentralization in our... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 2
historical context and suggesting that scholars move past unconditional acceptance of the causal power of "socialist legacies" and instead attend to the importance of changes in the post-Mao administrative hierarchy. Working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21
to isolate exogenous shocks to local ethnic populations, and identify a causal link between local networks and firm trade links. Firms that exploit their local networks (strategic traders) see significant increases in future sales growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Jorge Tamayo Abstract—Canonical models of criminal behavior highlight the importance of economic incentives and employment opportunities in determining participation in crime (Becker, 1968). Yet, deriving causal corroborating evidence... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
that egalitarianism distance has a negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
a successful transformation in your company. Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines Author:Nava Ashraf Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Using an experimental design I elicit View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
bankrupt. Consequently many of the plaintiffs turned their attention to Walmart and sued the retailer as a causal agent in the deaths and injuries. Given that more than one party was involved in Walmart's sale of unsafe gas cans, who is... View Details
- 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18
establishing that cultural values causally impact the contents of gender stereotypes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-097.pdf Characteristic Timing Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel Gregory Hanson Abstract We use... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
ideas lie outside their organizations, in an ecosystem of potential innovators who possess wide-ranging skills and knowledge." Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/spurring-innovation-through-competitions/ August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne