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- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
about the subject in a paper, "Consumer Demand for Prize-Linked Savings: A Preliminary Analysis" [PDF]. In the Clarksville survey, there were four characteristics that define people who were most interested in the product: They have no... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
percent of American households owned equities in some form or another. By 2002, the figure for households had rocketed to 49.5 percent. Among single people in 1983, 42 percent held equities, while in 2002,... View Details
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
Publications 2006 Journal of International Business Studies Firm Rivalry, Knowledge Accumulation, and MNE Location Choices By: Alcácer, Juan, Cristian Deszo, and Minyuan Zhao Abstract—The international business (IB) literature has mostly emphasized the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
discusses what that means for consumer marketing. . Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders Courageous leaders inspire employees, energize customers, and position their companies on the front lines of societal change. Bill... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
is associated with a 3.8% decline in new firm births. The effect is similar in size and significance when aggregating to the household level and when including a standard battery of covariates. The instrument is orthogonal to private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
him. They still run the company, and they also manage a household that includes their three children. Execution Is Critical Entrepreneurship is difficult even when the idea is great, the teams are complementary, and conditions seem ideal.... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
Rebalancing by Individual Investors Authors:Laurent E. Calvet, John Y. Campbell, and Paolo Sodini Abstract This paper investigates the dynamics of individual portfolios in a unique dataset containing the disaggregated wealth of all View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
study, we looked at how gender-based assumptions in over 100 companies influenced issues such as career planning, goal setting, promotions, and raises. We examined the characteristics most frequently cited in performance management... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
about the benefits of the privatization of water services amongst low and middle-income groups immediately after the 2006 nationalization. Negative opinions about the privatization prevail. These are particularly strong amongst households... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
firms that are American household names—Disney, Stride Rite, Procter & Gamble— and then applied her multifaceted talents to a fledgling start-up auction site. During her ten years at the helm, eBay grew from a small operation where... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering randomly selected unbanked View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
market participants on key characteristics and significantly increase their equity exposures over the sample period. The introduction of retail structured products thereby raises both the likelihood and the extent of stock market... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
levels and frequency of default typical of emerging markets even if the household impatience parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering randomly selected unbanked View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
with subsidies alone, but the subsidies have been too small to solve the “last-mile problem,” and so most poor households remain unconnected to the water and sewer system. In nineteenth-century New York, subsidies also proved insufficient... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
the household was the clack of the typewriter coming from Levitt’s upstairs office. From the moment he emigrated from Vollmerz, Germany, at age 10, Levitt seems to have understood and relished the power of the right words, in the right... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
information and communication appears to be driven not as much by gender as by control: men whose wives control household savings are much more likely to exhibit this treatment effect, and women whose husbands control savings exhibit the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
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 frequency of default typical of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
which both empirical characteristics of bias are observed in equilibrium. The key assumptions are that the information contained in the facts about a news event may not always be fully verifiable, and consumers have heterogeneous prior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace