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- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement. Observed patterns guide the development of a model in which heterogeneous firms from a source country decide how to serve two foreign markets.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007
decision concerns the variety and heterogeneity of languages in their product range. Should a firm propose a single product language to communicate a precise identity, or should it explore different product languages? Of course, the two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16645 Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Mikhail Golosov, Maxim Troshkin, Aleh Tsyvinski, and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract We examine a prominent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-042.pdf Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations Authors:Ufuk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
political and economic elite help explain the low achievement levels of these four countries and the incredible amount of heterogeneity within each of them. Download the paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w17852 Expertise Dissensus: A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
also find substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
controlling for the potential effect of cultural norms. China provides a good research lab since it combines great heterogeneity in institutional development across the Chinese provinces with homogeneity in cultural norms, law, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
Disclosure: Accountability or Greenwashing? Authors:Christopher Marquis and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Despite the increase in corporate environmental disclosure, there remains substantial heterogeneity in the extent to which corporations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
externalities, two traditionally under-emphasized forces, exert consistently strong effects. Within each macro network, there is a large heterogeneity across subsidiaries. Subsidiaries with greater size and higher productivity attract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Doug J., Byungyeon Kim, and Byoung Park Abstract—We estimate a sales response model to evaluate the short- and long-term value of a sales representative’s detailing visit to different types of physicians. By understanding the dynamic effect of sales calls across View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
consistent predictors of voting behavior. For the former, we estimate sharp measures that control for common characteristics of the network, as well as heterogeneous impacts of a common network characteristic across votes. For common seat... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
first demonstrate that such a model is flexible enough to capture a wide range of heterogeneity structures (both linear and non-linear), thus being applicable to a variety of behaviors and contexts. We also demonstrate the model's ability... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
Individuals' voting preferences are modeled using a random-coefficient aggregate discrete-choice model, in which we incorporate both observed and unobserved individual heterogeneity. We find that different campaign activities have View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
consistency between instrument, research question, and context. Paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1838538 Working PapersGrowth through Heterogeneous Innovations Authors:Akcigit, Ufuk, and William R. Kerr Abstract We study how exploration... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
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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
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
categories are far from homogeneous and substantial variation exists between consumers in the same category. So tailor-made loyalty systems go way beyond these heterogeneous customer groupings by offering propositions at an individual... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
at the individual level. We discuss the implications of our results for the study of learning as well as for providers and consumers of outsourced services. Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Golosov,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
among the first empirical evidence characterizing heterogeneous responses by those mandated to disclose information. We find particularly rapid improvement among establishments located close to their headquarters and among establishments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
create institutional pressure to spur performance improvement. By examining how organizational characteristics moderate establishments' responses to a prominent environmental information disclosure program, we provide among the first empirical evidence characterizing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne