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  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Reverse the Curse of the Top-5

By: Robert S. Kaplan
The past 40 years has seen a large increase in the number of articles submitted to journals ranked in the top-5 of their discipline. This increase is the rational response, by faculty, to the overweighting of publications in these journals by university promotions and... View Details
Keywords: Information Publishing; Journals and Magazines; Power and Influence; Research
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  • 15 Jul 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes

Keywords: by Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay & Max H. Bazerman
  • March 2018 (Revised March 2018)
  • Teaching Note

OpenInvest

By: Boris Vallee and Caitlin Reimers Brumme
Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail investors to tailor their portfolio to their personal values in an automated way, for instance by screening out weapon manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ... View Details
Keywords: Socially Responsible Investing; Investing For Impact; Robo-advisors; Investment; Values and Beliefs; Customization and Personalization; Technology; Financial Services Industry
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  • 18 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named the trustee of a 401(k) plan. We find that family trustees significantly overweight... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

overweight the risks, punishing the charity simply for not being perfect. “People exaggerate a charity’s metrics to the extent that they use it as an excuse not to give at all,” she says. In her current study with Judd B. Kessler, a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ friendly companies, while still closely tracking the overall stock market performance. In 2017, bolstered by $3.25 million in seed funding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

overweighted in probability judgments but are underweighted in repeated decisions under uncertainty. Two laboratory studies examine both decisions and probability assessments within the same paradigm. The results reveal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions

observers significantly overweighted the importance of ecofriendliness and underweighted the importance of price. They also overestimated the extent to which decision-makers would buy ecofriendly products in the future. It’s important for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

Stock Returns: Evidence from Cross-sectional Variation in Nikkei 225 Weights Author:Robin Greenwood Periodical:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Relative to their weights in a value-weighted index, a number of stocks in Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

influence on the family's portfolio decisions. Consistent with this, we find that family trustees significantly overweight their 401(k) client firm's stock. Trustee overweighting is more pronounced when the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

driven by mistaken earnings estimates. We show that investors appear to overweight recent lower earnings following positive seasonality quarters, leading to pessimistic forecasts in the subsequent positive seasonality quarter. The returns... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

overweighting of minor (but easy to evaluate) attributes that would be overlooked under an all-inclusive price format. The effect of price partitioning on demand can be detrimental or beneficial, consistent with existing conflicting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

rational response, by faculty, to the overweighting of publications in these journals by university promotions and tenure committees. The ranking factors for academic journals, however, arose for a completely different purpose, to guide... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

overweighting its representative types, which we formally define to be the types that occur more frequently in that group than in a baseline reference group. Stereotypes formed in this way contain a "kernel of truth": they are rooted in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

precision of these estimates. The intuition behind one mechanism is slightly ironic: in trying to update optimally, Bayesian agents overweight information of which they overestimate the precision and underweight in the opposite case. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

chains had changed significantly. While a higher proportion of Americans exercised on any given day, the majority still did not, and the average number of hours exercised had remained essentially flat. Meanwhile, the prevalence of people classified as View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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