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- 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26
Journal: Economic Policy The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying By: Kerr, William R., William F. Lincoln, and Prachi Mishra Abstract—How is economic policy made? In this paper we study a key determinant of the answer to the question: lobbying by firms. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
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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
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
coupon legality. We find that coupons increase branded sales by 60+ percent, entirely by reducing the sales of bioequivalent generics. During the five years following generic entry, we estimate that coupons increase total spending by $30... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
suggests that the effect of distance should vanish over time, a hypothesis that we confirm in the data and that distinguishes technology from other flows like goods or investments. We then structurally estimate the model. The parameter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
as hard as it can be to overcome infrastructure issues, Gordon’s challenges go well beyond lemon shortages and umbrella access: She’s a first-time entrepreneur trying to build a family business in a country with an ever-shifting stance toward business—and with View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
higher payout, greater leverage, higher CEO turnover, lower CEO compensation, and reduced investment. With the exception of the probability of being acquired, these estimated effects are generally greater when activists obtain board... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
types of 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 following... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
capital-market or product-market benefits from inclusion. Status incentives contributed to the observed performance improvement. Back-of-the-envelope estimates suggest that JPX400 inclusion incentives accounted for 16% (20%) of the growth... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
on the book value of equity and sales subsume the predictive ability of all other ERPs we examine. Collectively, the LPV framework offers a parsimonious accounting-based approach for the estimation of expected returns across international... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5
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 including the independence on the level of geographic aggregation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
connected and on task throughout the day. Here, the agenda is less structured. Most villagers survive on sales of handmade rugs and subsistence farming. But there’s also a tension in the village between a communal way of life and external pressures. With an View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
in the early 1760s who owned an estimated 100 slaves—received death threats and was spit on in public. He did not win reelection to the council and found himself shut out of work opportunities in the area. "It was time to return to... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
Blackstone Group, estimated that in the next four years this would result in Intelenet losing $160 million of revenue and $48 million of EBITDA. Blackstone could either channel large amounts of capital and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
empirical findings, we develop a theoretical model that explains when user innovations are commercialized by users, by manufacturers, or not commercialized at all. At the core of our model is the notion that users and manufacturers differ along two critical dimensions:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
store grew, the space became so crowded that at times the copier was rolled out onto the sidewalk and used for self-service customers. Today, some analysts estimate annual revenues from the privately held... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4
tribes and U.S. states often find themselves at the bargaining table, often negotiating "compacts" to govern gaming operations on tribal lands. The operational success of the Pequot gaming operation in Connecticut, Foxwoods, and the substantial View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
hired. The data is consistent with horizontal differentiation of CEO behavioral types and firm-CEO matching frictions. We estimate that 17% of sample CEOs are mismatched and that mismatches are associated with significant productivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
outward shift in the supply of credit. First, a comparison between counties in the top and bottom deciles of presence of national banks in states with anti-predatory laws suggests that the preemption regulation resulted in an 11% increase in annual lending in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29
depending on a few potentially estimable statistics, in particular the coefficient of complementarity between public goods and innate talent. Constrained optimal policy with a Pareto-efficient objective that strikes a balance-controlled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
experiments to test theoretical predictions of why adoption may be low. Insurance purchase is sensitive to price, with an estimated extensive price elasticity of demand between -0.66 and -0.88. Credit constraints, identified through the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace