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  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

negatively valenced emotions (Experiment 2). The relationships between anxiety and advice seeking and anxiety and advice taking are mediated by self-confidence; anxiety lowers self-confidence, which increases advice seeking and reliance upon advice (Experiment 3).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

"It isn't clear it's a bailout at all. It may in fact be a very profitable investment. And at what price are the assets to be purchased? You see, it's actually needn't be a bailout proposal at all. It's in fact a proposal to try to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

the Use of Unverifiable Estimates in Required Goodwill Impairment Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts Publication:Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming) Abstract SFAS 142 requires managers to estimate the current fair value of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

that have led to asset impairments. More recently, the Bulgarian energy regulator announced its intentions to seek a 30% price reduction on a power purchase agreement signed over ten years ago with AES. Accordingly, AES' management is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

shareholders more than $3.95 trillion via stock buybacks and $2.45 trillion via dividends—$6.4 trillion in total. These shareholder payouts amounted to over 93% of the firms' net income. Academics, corporate lawyers, asset managers, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

the education networks. Our results suggest that social networks may be an important mechanism for information flow into asset prices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-055.pdf Embracing Commitment and Performance:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Smarter Policy” to help provide evidence on matters of small-business financing—looking in particular about whether and how the financial crisis created a credit gap for small businesses. Despite gathering information, however, the fundamental question about whether... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

shareholders more than $3.95 trillion via stock buybacks and $2.45 trillion via dividends—$6.4 trillion in total. These shareholder payouts amounted to over 93% of the firms' net income. Academics, corporate lawyers, asset managers, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

gives firms discretion to manage impairments. We test this argument in a sample of firms with market indications of impairment (firms with book goodwill and market-to-book ratio below one). We find that the frequency of non-impairment in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

$2.8 trillion via dividends—$7 trillion in total. These shareholder payouts amounted to over 96% of the firms' net income. Academics, corporate lawyers, asset managers, and politicians point to such shareholder-payout figures as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

to use credit to build assets and finance consumption. Moving Forward explores what caused the crisis and, more important, focuses on the path ahead. The challenge remains the same as ever: protect consumers, ensure fairness, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

  Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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