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- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
substantially fewer violations. With improved compliance, channel prices increase by 2% without loss in volume. The reduction in violations is particularly stark among authorized retailers with lower sales volume, those that previously... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
exploit an exogenous reduction in H1B (visa) quotas and find that herbal patents filed by western firms based in the U.S. are driven by scientists of ethnic Indian and Chinese origin. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
world-class business. Following modern management practices, keeping sharp attention to cost control and capital operations, making aggressive entries into international markets, and maintaining a special corporate culture, Chairman Chen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
total value of tailored coupons that shoppers stand to lose if they go elsewhere. Store-switching costs created this way increase the spending and loyalty of shoppers. For retailers lacking the capability of using information about their... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13
radical or not. While greater market share promotes adoption of all types of business process innovations, this effect is outweighed by additional co-invention and coordination costs whenever a technological advance address strategically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
reduction in bias unless this is accompanied by an increase in verifiability or a smaller dispersion of prior beliefs. (Noisy) Communication Authors:Bharat Anand and Ron Shachar Periodical:Quantitative Marketing and Economics... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
the data support our model over alternative explanations such as recession-induced reduction in agency costs (due to managerial fears of bankruptcy) and changing coordination costs. Countries with more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Working Papers An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors: Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
pricing, and that reinsurers' high costs of capital appear to play an important role. Institutional Portfolio Flows and International Investments Authors:K. A. Froot and T. Ramadorai Periodical:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming).... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2011
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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 of entrepreneurship. However, the decrease in entrepreneurship is entirely driven by a significant View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
PublicationsAn Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions Authors:Craig J.Chapman, Thomas J. Steenburgh Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract Prior research hypothesizes that managers use "real actions," including the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
micro-foundations of market legitimization and on the role of morals in sustaining professional jurisdictions. A Temporal View of the Costs and Benefits of Self-Deception Authors:Zoë Chance, Michael I. Norton, Francesca Gino, and Dan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
impact on the accounting standards under which the investee firms present their financial information; the only change is in the investor's familiarity with these standards. This suggests that differences in accounting standards affect investor demand by imposing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
(2012) Abstract This paper summarizes research trends and opportunities in the area of managing air transportation demand and capacity. Capacity constraints and resulting congestion and low schedule reliability currently impose large View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
treatment with a simulation of paying U.S. federal taxes. Allowing taxpayers to signal their preferences on the distribution of government spending results in a 15% reduction in the stated take-up rate of a questionable tax loophole.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
whether there might be an emerging professionalism with Chinese characteristics and how this might have an impact on the professions elsewhere. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Cost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
behaviors serve as a signal of prosocial identity and that people subsequently behave in line with that self-perception. In contrast, costless prosocial acts do not signal much about one's prosocial identity, so subsequent behavior is less likely to be consistent and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne