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- 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016
extraction, and increased refinancing mortgagors’ consumption by an additional $76 billion. This de facto allocation of credit across mortgage market segments, combined with sharp bunching around GSE eligibility cutoffs, establishes an... View Details
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
revenues over time. Perhaps this sounds intuitive, but it doesn't necessarily correspond with the popular belief that one or two popular songs can "make" an album. My findings suggest that as music consumption moves online,... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Francesca Gino Abstract—Although religion is a central aspect of life for many people across the globe, there is scant research on how religion affects people’s non-religious routines. In the present research, we identify a frequent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
analytical expression that reveals the forces determining optimal commodity taxation. We then calibrate the model to evidence on the relationship between skills and preferences and extensively examine the quantitative case for taxes on future View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016
better consumption smoothing, issue more foreign-currency debt. We propose that monetary policy credibility explains the currency composition of sovereign debt and nominal bond risks in the presence of risk-averse investors. In our model,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
Baby Boomers age, you are hearing this big sucking sound as consumption goes away from retail and goes much more to cruises and vacations, grandkids and college. So it's important for retailers to think about how to keep Baby Boomers... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
from consumption complementarities. We show that the combination of preference for variety and consumption complementarities gives rise to (1) a commons problem (to better satisfy their individual preference... View Details
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
ranked the world's second-largest consumer of energy. This note provides background on China's energy industry and provides details on China's leading state-owned energy companies, production and consumption statistics, and government... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
measured by the covariation of bond returns with stock returns and with consumption growth, and in the volatility of bond returns. A robust stylized fact in empirical finance is that the spread between the yield on long-term bonds and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
differs. ITunes provides a unified interface that seamlessly integrates the location, purchase, and consumption of content. Users of p2p networks, on the other hand, must navigate a complex environment and endure varying levels of... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
reports. We complement the country-level analysis using environmental, social, and governance metrics at the firm-level in conjunction with a differences-in-differences research design, and we find that for the treatment group, energy as well as waste and water View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107029 How Media Choices are Changing Online Advertising Harvard Business School Note 707-458 What is the response by advertisers as media consumption moves to the digital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006
cross-country analysis for the claim that OECD polices worsen poverty in developing countries. To better understand what might drive these results, we turn to national employment and household consumption and expenditure surveys from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
status on prices. The effect increases in a time of decreasing uncertainty, which supports the motive of conspicuous consumption as a driver of the effect. However, the results caution that we might commonly overestimate the symbolic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
uniting, becoming more “producer-friendly,” and consider the role within ASGM governance systems they are best suited to play (which may be none at all). Findings contribute to debates on the merits of increasing governance fragmentation and the role of political View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
population and per capita consumption growth, the limited nature of resources and sinks, and the responsibility and exposure of firms to ensuing ecological risks and costs. We then discuss how an operations management lens contributes to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016
conversely, the flaunting of a busy life and a dearth of leisure time. In addition, people’s relative interest in buying luxury experiences versus luxury products is increasing. Technology has introduced new business models, such as collaborative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
importing country. We cross check our results in number of ways. Our results, which differ from findings using Penn World Tables data, caution against discounting a role for the higher price of capital goods in explaining the higher relative price of capital to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
lead to reduced economic productivity subsequent to exposure to temptation. Using a design inspired by the classic "Marshmallow Test," we report data from a field experiment in which children between the ages of 6 and 13 were exposed (or not) to a View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
-0.27. We also present evidence that consumers increased usage ahead of these announced price changes. Finally, we project that the price elasticity converges to a value between -0.30 and -0.35 after ten years. Our findings highlight the importance of accounting for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne