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- 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21
must stabilize its operations at home, where a devalued peso, economic uncertainty, and political instability still linger from the devastating financial crisis. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
Publications August 2013 Palgrave Macmillan The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World By: Reinert, Sophus A., and Pernille Røge, eds. Abstract—This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
prompted renewed debate on the role of fiscal rules. Their optimality, however, remains unclear. We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation and default modified to incorporate quasi-hyperbolic preferences. For... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
have the chance to be cruel or kind to someone entirely different-to pay it forward? In five experiments, participants received greedy, equal, or generous divisions of money or labor from an anonymous person, and then divided additional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
accreditation standards that play to their strengths in demonstrating student learning outcomes. These institutions are poised to respond cost-effectively to the national need for increased college participation and completion. A... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. Using an instrumental variables approach derived from a regression discontinuity, we find that increasing the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
which transparency can backfire. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55804 forthcoming PS: Political Science & Politics Informal Institutions and Survey Research in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
products are developed. This article introduces a fundamental tension between incentives and improvement in the provision of feedback. Using a sample of 4,294 commercial logo design tournaments, I show that feedback reduces participation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
interest. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation, an agency that funds partnerships between universities and private companies. We assess the effect on participating firms' innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016
technology: the desire to signal to others. We present a field experiment where participants can choose to give up money if they do not follow through with an action. When commitment choices are made public rather than kept private, we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
(forthcoming) Abstract Researchers have documented many cases in which individuals rationalize their regrettable actions. Four experiments examine situations in which participants go beyond merely explaining away their misconduct to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23
officers, cabinet ministers, and unskilled workers-to their ideals for what those wages should be. We show that ideal pay gaps between skilled and unskilled workers are significantly smaller than estimated pay gaps, and that there is consensus across countries,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 10, 2009
role of economic, geographic, and demographic factors, I find that poorer areas have significantly higher levels of conflict intensity. The paper reviews the various approaches taken by governments to deal with conflict, contrasting security-based approaches with View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310073-PDF-ENG Cosan: Thinking Outside the Barrel Forest Reinhardt, Noel Maurer, and Ricardo Reisen de PinhoHarvard Business School Case 710-017 The Cosan case introduces students and executive education View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model was more conducive to green corporate strategies than liberal market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
we test the prediction that novel rituals—arbitrary hand and body gestures enacted in a stereotypical and repeated fashion—can impact intergroup bias in newly formed groups. In four studies, participants practiced novel rituals at home... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One
participation but also an informed electorate. So, it's an open question to understand how informed exactly voters are.” You Might Also Like: Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake What the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
to precisely quantify the difference between how people enact warm versus tough communication styles. We find that the two styles differ primarily in length and their expressions of politeness (Study 1). Negotiators with a tough... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5
and profanity than other participants. Participants using deception by omission used fewer words and a lower percentage of causation words than other participants. Support was found for the "Pinocchio effect": liars generally... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14
participation in OS arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (2) OS and P firms may (or may not) coexist in equilibrium. Firms decide their type and investment in R&D and sell packages composed of a primary good... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace