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  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

crossed with small financial incentives (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open bank savings accounts. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the full sample, but do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Water for Life

an excellent public-private partnership model that provided the right incentives for investment and the flexibility to attack the problems in service delivery. This was key. How did you structure Manila Water’s concession with the... View Details
Keywords: Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

(VM) as its Alpha Vendor, but the outdated industry pricing model created perverse incentives and could not capture O&M's costs. Together, O&M and VM created an activity-based pricing model: Total Supply Chain Costs (TSCC), which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

investors; they evolved toward more friendly approaches. Many countries created new incentives for investors and built investment promotion agencies to attract new companies. The causes were several: Better educated and more experienced... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

3) there may be no trade-off between value creation and value capture when comparing business models with different degrees of openness. Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Publication:RAND Journal of Economics (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

firm to master all these skills, let alone house them under one roof. Second, a pool of low-cost yet highly skilled labor has emerged in developing countries, creating incentives to substitute these for higher-cost equivalents. Indeed,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 17

incentives to recall the rules accurately (Experiment 3). Finally, moral forgetting appears to result from decreased access to moral rules after cheating (Experiment 4). Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of Hospitals' Internal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

billable hours. How does that hurt productivity? A: The most obvious answer is that there is a negative financial incentive to solving problems quickly and efficiently. Hourly billing is a deeply ingrained model of measuring work, but it... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 24 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?

broad-based guarantees of mortgage-backed securities [MBS]. This approach would be most similar to the current system except that the new firms would not be government sponsored and would have to pay for the government backstop. Our paper... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 28 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

the boardroom. When people are held accountable for their actions as individuals rather than as a group, they tend to weigh their choices more carefully. If individual votes were published, directors would have greater incentive to air... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman
  • 26 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

the seller can back out at any time between the signing and the closing by paying the buyer a "breakup fee," which might compensate the buyer for out-of-pocket expenses. The seller gets the ability to shop around. The buyer... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

assessments when race was less relevant (Study 4). Practical and theoretical implications for interracial interaction are considered. Households' Willingness to Pay for Public Goods: Evidence from Patagonia's Introduction of Organic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

low-quality users on side M, even though some would be willing to pay the platform access prices. Platforms are more likely to engage in exclusion of low-quality M users when W users place more value on the average quality and less value... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

compensation incentives for CSR. We test our predictions using novel executive compensation contract data and find that firms with more shareholder friendly corporate governance are more likely to provide compensation to executives linked... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

  Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

of US start-ups in the twenty-first century have survived beyond three years. As everyone knows, it's not easy to start a venture that gains traction with paying customers. But it's even harder to grow beyond certain levels of sales: Of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

health choices. The good news is that human nature can also be a source of solutions. Through her studies in Zambia exploring the reasons for unwanted pregnancies and the incentives that would motivate hairdressers to sell condoms to... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

usage; however, customer-to-customer communications tended to increase personal-use engagement across latent states and in both data sets. The findings suggest that firms offering digital services should pay attention to how the mode of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

for me from the podcast is that the places where climate innovation is possible can be extremely unexpected. Whether it’s in paying forestry to not cut down trees or drawing carbon out of the air or high end sound equipment, it’s often in... View Details