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Industries: financial analytical data and tools
Where can I find aggregate data on specific industries? An increasing number of databases are now available on the market to support the financial data analytical needs of bankers and financial professionals. Baker provides access to a... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Richmond R. Jose, and Robert L. Winkler Abstract—Many organizations face critical decisions that rely on forecasts of binary events. In these situations, organizations often gather forecasts from multiple experts or models and average those forecasts to produce a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Tax statistics: United States
Where can I find aggregate tax data? Tax Statistics: Main statistics site of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). SOI Tax Stats - SOI Bulletins: Statistics of Income data provided by the IRS. For older issues see... View Details
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Consumer confidence
University of Michigan. Consumer Sentiment: Data aggregated by the U.S. Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) from different sources. Use filters provided to locate data for different global regions and frequencies. View Details
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
over 33 million reviews for local businesses, with some sporting more than 1,000 reviews each. How, then, does a consumer make sense of the spate of opinions, many of which contradict each other? New research suggests a scientific way to View Details
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Foreign direct investment: statistics
your selections. If you would like to get aggregate data for a region, use the menu on the left-hand side. Under Series, search for foreign direct investment. Under Time, select year(s). Click on on of the download options in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
in 2011 “The best way to book bus tickets,” aggregating information on a half-million bus routes in 63 countries. Winner of the 2014 Alumni New Venture Competition’s Best Investment category, Busbud has debuted a product that allows third... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
forthcoming Quantitative Marketing and Economics Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com By: Dai, Weijia, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee, and Michael Luca Abstract—Because consumer reviews leverage the wisdom of the crowd,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15
the firm than in its absence. An Exploration of Technology Diffusion Author:Diego A. Comin Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract We develop a model that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
probe beneath customer preferences and behaviors to uncover the attitudes that provide a more solid understanding of customer loyalty. Why You Need Both Individual And Aggregated Data One-to-one marketing, a term coined by Don Peppers and... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
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Factiva | Baker Library
Factiva Aggregated news from national and local newspapers, magazines, trade publications, and transcripts. Read More Factiva includes access to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Barron's. Content is available in 22 languages.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Optimizing search technology
for example, search better—help them get access to content faster, aggregate information in a more efficient way—then we can help them get closer to a cure.” Dumon became interested in search technology while at eBay, where he served as... View Details
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Sustainability in Waste Management
management. What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050 This report aggregates solid waste data at the national and urban level and predicts waste generation to 2030 and 2050. In addition to the waste... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
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Data-Driven Diligence
same way, he’d later learn through Moneyball, that baseball teams were using analytics to find undervalued players. The problem was, Coats needed data—lots of it. “I kept asking VCs and others in the industry, ‘Has anyone ever aggregated... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
governments are not very effective in accelerating technological change or in fostering technology adoption. If a government's deficit leads to higher aggregate demand, companies may find it more attractive to adopt and develop new... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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Anil Doshi
services. We collected individual performance data and found tremendous potential in providing beneficial services to our users that required the aggregation of that data. I became more interested in understanding how the disclosure,... View Details
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
ensure that buyers and sellers who don’t know each other trust that the transactions will be safe and of high quality? This is the fundamental role of online platforms: aggregating information that is useful for buyers and sellers who... View Details
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Monica Gupta Adractas
Harvard's beautiful white steeples. My life... I hope my life will embody the multiplier effect, which, in economics, occurs when a dollar in spending has a disproportionate effect on aggregate demand. Instead of mere spending, I hope to... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
disaggregated measures that are incrementally informative but costly to contract upon. In such a setting, when do firms contract on aggregated rather than disaggregated performance measures? We show that at intermediate levels of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 16, 2007
measurement of reduced form, aggregate sentiment and traces its effects to stock returns. It builds on the two broader and more irrefutable assumptions of behavioral finance—sentiment and the limits to arbitrage—to explain which stocks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace