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  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

capital-good market externality and technology diffusion play a more important role in the offshore agglomeration of multinationals than the agglomeration of domestic firms. These findings remain robust when we address potential reverse View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

Detainees are randomly assigned to judges, and ideological differences across judges translate into large differences in the allocation of electronic monitoring to an otherwise similar population. Using these peculiarities of the Argentine setting, we argue that there... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

Hierarchies Authors:Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf Publication:American Economic Journals: Applied Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

events, messenger dislike is correlated with the belief that the messenger had malevolent motives (Studies 5A, 5B, & 5C). Studies 6A & 6B go further, manipulating messenger motives independently from news valence to suggest its View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

consistent with our theorizing. However, while significant, perspective-taking does not mediate these relationships in the expected direction, because it has a negative effect on sales. In Studies 2a and 2b, both experimental studies, we strengthen View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14483 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization Authors: Maria Guadalupe and Julie M. Wulf Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

capabilities. There is no such impact for firms without this ecosystem of complements. Dynamic panel analysis, instrumental variables, and a variety of robustness checks are used to address measurement error concerns and to add support for a more View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

and task specific information. We test and find support for our hypotheses using experimental methods that permit causal inferences and examination of underlying mechanisms. Our study contributes to literature streams on artificial... View Details
  • 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

escalation in movie advertising expenditures over time. Yet, the returns to movie advertising are poorly understood. The main reason is that disentangling the causal effect of advertising on movie sales is difficult because of the classic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

standard errors, balanced panel). Three subsequent experiments involving American and Indian participants established the causal effect of psychologically experiencing a polluted vs. clean environment on unethical behavior. Consistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

that UGC on platforms ranging from Yelp to Facebook has a large causal impact on economic and social outcomes ranging from restaurant decisions to voting behavior. These findings often leverage unique data sets and methods ranging from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2024
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The Golden Thread

took a few years. Early on, her research took place in the lab, which offered a controlled environment that made it possible to nail down causality as she measured intrinsic motivation and creativity. After a few years, though, Amabile... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustration by Nigel Buchanan; retirement; careers; psychology
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940. We identify a causal relationship between patented inventions and long-run economic growth and outline a basic framework for analyzing key macro and micro-level determinants. We find a positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

windfall ended, and the recipient countries experienced a significant uptick in civil war. To provide a causal interpretation we leverage a quasi-natural experiment of oil price induced aid disbursements that favored Muslim countries over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

Our results thus identify a causal effect of poverty on crime. They also lend credence to a large literature on the effects of weather shocks on crime and conflict, which has usually assumed that the income channel is the most relevant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

well documented, little is known about why norms of silencing conflict evolve. To explore this evolution, we draw on an ethnographic study that spanned the entire life of a dot.com, starting with its founding and ending with its sale to a larger company. Distilling our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

headquarters to local plant managers in almost 4,000 firms in the United States, Europe, and Asia. We find that firms headquartered in high trust regions are more likely to decentralize, with trust accounting for about half of the variation in decentralization in our... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving services report greater life satisfaction. A field experiment provides causal evidence that working adults report greater happiness after spending money on a time-saving purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

comfortable with the concepts of correlation and causation. This background note provides an overview of correlation and causation using examples and explains why the former does not imply the latter. It also describes several methods for gaining insights into View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne