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- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Finally, the long-run risks model implies extremely low yields and negative-term premia on inflation-indexed bonds. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14788 Measuring the Financial Sophistication of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
IEEE Security & Privacy Accountable? The Problems and Solutions of Online Ad Optimization By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Online advertising might seem to be the most measurable form of marketing ever invented. Comprehensive records... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Another difference is the sheer size of the industry. Telecom is now of comparable size by some measures but certainly wasn't initially. Before the Second World War there was no information technology industry. That's an important... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
officials. Distrust in the government increases the preferred tax rate on the top 1% only when business legitimacy is low. A model with multiple equilibria helps interpret these findings. In one of the equilibria, meetings are allowed,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
its plans to develop radical innovation even when it thinks highly of the market potential for the radical innovation. The incumbent does so to avoid validating the high market potential to the entrant, who may otherwise be encouraged to invest aggressively. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
fairness within the industry. Coordinating conflicting programs requires a careful balance between equity and efficiency. In our work, we first develop a fairness metric to measure deviation from first-scheduled, first-served in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
unknown but targeted wealthier districts when incomes were revealed. These results shed light on how income transparency shapes preferences for equity and redistribution. We discuss implications for policy makers. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006
Protection Agency (US EPA) program that encourages companies to self-disclose violations of environmental laws and regulations in exchange for reduced sanctions. We find that facilities are more likely to self-disclose if they were recently subjected to one of several... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
pattern recognition. Our partners combine tenacity and confidence with a large dose of humility. Accel prefers early-stage companies. Isn’t that the riskiest strategy? It is certainly the riskiest part of the business. At the same time,... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
efficiency, independence of irrelevant objects, and resource-monotonicity on two preference domains (Ehlers and Klaus, 2003, Theorem 1). They explicitly prove Theorem 1 for preference domain R0 which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
reported feeling, to such an extent that receivers viewed regifting as similar in offensiveness to throwing gifts away (whereas givers clearly preferred the former). This asymmetry in emotional reactions to regifting was driven by an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
case exhibit. "We looked at the diameters, and then we actually measured the size of four pictures, and we noticed that the relative sizes of the pictures don’t match the relative size of the watches,” Thomke remembers them saying.... View Details
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
School presents "Preference vs. Practice: Unintended Consequences of Gender Preferences in Innovation Acceleration" at the 2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Sarah Kaplan, Director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy, University... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
neo-classical economics view that behavior is driven by—and reflective of—hedonic utility is challenged by psychologists' demonstrations of cases in which actions do not merely reveal preferences but rather create them. In this view,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
enforcement according to his measure of employment intensity, presenting his findings in the 2014 paper Government Preferences and SEC Enforcement. The data supported Heese's hypothesis. Companies in the top... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
measured terms familiar to a stock market analyst. Through an agreement, a social icon can define with its acquirer terms of accountability for its performance that may be much better suited to what it is trying to accomplish. For... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
studio executives appear to favor simultaneous releases of movies around the world, fewer of the phased rollouts we've seen traditionally. Does your research support this strategy? A: There are several factors that drive a preference for... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
allowances, low bank share prices, and tight monetary policy. The bank-to-bond substitution can only be measured for firms with access to bond markets. However, we show that this substitution behavior has strong predictive power for bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
tools like an infrared eye tracker to measure eye movements and special vision software that analyzes facial expressions to gauge emotional responses. Experiments in the field are gaining popularity too, covering a wide spectrum of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace