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  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

Side of the Vote: Biased Voters, Social Information, and Information Aggregation Through Majority Voting Authors: Rebecca B. Morton, Marco Piovesan, and Jean-Robert Tyran Abstract We experimentally... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

and law-enforcement personnel about criminal, corrupt, and commercially tax-evading flows. U.S. and international agencies, such as the World Bank and the United Nations, are also important sources of information on these matters, as are... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Government
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MBA 2025 Alumni Technology Transition - Alumni

check this page periodically through graduation. Technology February Graduates May Graduates Baker Library student resource access ends Visit the Library Help Center for information on extended access to select resources for MBA 2025 job... View Details
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

(September-October 2011) Abstract For many decades the cornerstone of corporate reporting has been financial information that is presented in a company's annual, semi-annual, and quarterly reports. These comprehensive financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

Transparency with Costly Information Processing By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marco Pagano Abstract—We study a model where some investors (“hedgers”) are bad at information processing, while others... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Dec 2024
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Solving the Underemployment Crisis

is to move across the country for a full-time position after you graduate. I think, in general, giving students better information about outcomes would also be helpful—not necessarily to encourage them to study something different, but... View Details
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

firms had “slack,” but not through changing investments or accruals. These incentives are driven by the prestige associated with the index rather than capital market benefits. Back-of-envelope estimates suggest that the index accounted for 23% of the average increase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Unconscious Executive

found yourself struggling with the wording while writing a paper, but after taking time away from it, you're able to quickly find the right words? This is your unconscious mind at work. While our conscious mind is focused on other matters, our unconscious mind can... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

pronounced in banks, and with higher pre-adoption information asymmetry, consistent with investors expecting net information quality benefits from IFRS adoption. We also find that the reaction is less... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

How can managers better identify, describe, and confront the issues of environmental and social sustainability that their companies increasingly encounter? One answer is One Report, a method of integrating information about financial and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

on preventing them. She outlines five tactics that research has shown to be effective: encourage reciprocity. You can build trust and prompt other parties to disclose strategic information by sharing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

economic motives behind individual concerns for privacy. Recent theories of privacy demands in commercial contexts have assumed an economically aware and sophisticated consumer, capable of evaluating the indirect consequences of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015

governance to an increased number of startups that they are more likely to abandon, but where early experiments significantly inform beliefs about the future potential of the venture. We also highlight how this adaptation by financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

Strategies By: Pomeranz, Dina, Cristobal Marshall, and Pamela Castellon Abstract—Reducing tax evasion is a key challenge for governments around the world, particularly in developing countries. This paper presents a methodology to generate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

to shareholders $7 trillion via buybacks and dividends, over 96% of their aggregate net income, prompting claims that "short-termism" is impairing firms' ability to invest and innovate. We show that, when taking into account both direct... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

measure both face-to-face and electronic interaction before and after the adoption of open office architecture. The results inform our understanding of the impact on human behavior of workspaces that trend toward fewer spatial boundaries... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

who used to work at the Reserve Bank of India, helped aggregate that information up to the level of district, time, and industry. We put together all loans that were made to private nonfinancial... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can reproduce debt levels and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

Africa. Even more broadly, one is left with aggregate statistics that both inform and numb. . . . Living in the United States, we may be shocked to learn that so many people in the world live on less than... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
  • 17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008

  Working PapersExplaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints Authors:Silvia Ardagna and Annamaria Lusardi Abstract We use a micro dataset that collects View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace