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12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

Milan in the late 1700s to recover the Academy’s ideas and the policies they informed. At the core of their preoccupations lay the often lethal tension among states, markets, and human welfare in an era when the three were becoming... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Dec 2011
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Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

colleagues investigate two types of trust: cognitive trust, which is based on confidence in a partner's technical competency, and affective trust, which is based on a shared concern for a partner's welfare and personal interests.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Dec 2009
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Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

and importing unskilled workers to keep costs low takes away the initiative for technological advances ." And Sam Heffner, invoking the noted economist, Milton Friedman, pointed out that "before he died, the great Dr. Friedman acknowledged that in a (more or... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

21 Sep 2016
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Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

achieve that. Then I think the impact of what she is doing for girls, for homeless women, through an NGO (Mijwan Welfare Society) she started. She is having great impact there. Homelessness is a huge, huge issue, especially in cities like... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

07 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

Trumbull, that unfettered marketplace has "virtually disappeared." "Today, arguably no other economic actor in the advanced industrial countries—not the investor, not the worker, not the welfare recipient—enjoys a more thorough set of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

08 Apr 2014
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surplus and welfare, sometimes to such an extent that the existence of the intermediary can be harmful. Specifically, lower consumer surplus and welfare result from inflated retail prices, over-investment in providing benefits to buyers,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Mar 2010
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interest costs. Finally, we can estimate the welfare implications of agency costs, because firm values increased when the rules were introduced. We conclude that equity-bondholder conflicts are economically important, determine capital... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2001
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The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

region are starting to pull back from their welfare state philosophies and encourage the privatization of the economies. These are gradual changes. The governments are trying to minimize social disruptions. But the broad implication is... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—The patent system is commonly justified as a way to promote social welfare and, more specifically, technological progress. For years, however, there has been concern that patent litigation is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

increasing the size of the market or increasing existing customers' purchases through the channel. A second, more subtle outcome is a more tightly woven, and yet adaptable, channel. Stewardship is not a social welfare system, where all... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

social impact framing that emphasizes a venture’s social-environmental welfare benefits, which research has shown to elicit stereotypically feminine attributions of warmth, diminishes these penalties. We initially investigate this... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

managers felt they understood the magnitude of the responsibility—that the health and welfare of the company and the victims rested on their shoulders—and were ready to take on that responsibility. A common question that gets debated is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Dec 2014
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taxes. We use the model to evaluate the welfare consequences of a range of alternative policies. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2533977 Lobbying Behavior of Governmental Entities: Evidence from Public Pension Accounting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Mar 2011
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and other forms of innovation. We also propose a research agenda to systematically address the social welfare implications of financial innovation. To complement existing empirical and theoretical methods, we propose that scholars examine... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 2017 (Revised November 2017)
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Propel

By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah McAra

In 2014, Jimmy Chen, a former product manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the... View Details

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February 2019 (Revised May 2019)
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Hot Chicken Takeover

By: William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Olivia Hull

By December 2018, entrepreneur Joe DeLoss’s fried chicken company, Hot Chicken Takeover, has opened three restaurants in Columbus, Ohio, using an unconventional employment model that helps people with criminal records get back on their feet. DeLoss is proud of the... View Details

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19 Jul 2006
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Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

Mexico's overall prosperity, this is pretty small potatoes." And foreign investment is no substitute for domestic investment in institutions such as education, the judicial system, and health and social welfare programs. A system of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

26 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

research shows that in the 10 cities with the largest Airbnb market share in the US, the entry of Airbnb resulted in 1.3 percent fewer hotel nights booked and a 1.5 percent loss in hotel revenue. The paper, The Welfare Effects of Peer... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel

24 Jun 2014
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this framework for the time path of U.S. policy require central parameters of the model, namely the elasticity of taxable income or the marginal social welfare weights on top earners, to take unconventional values. We use inferred social... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 2011
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the long-run. Policy is evaluated by how well it raises the welfare of the representative household. While the model has Keynesian features, its policy prescriptions differ significantly from textbook Keynesian analysis. Moreover, the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

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First Look: March 9

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

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Propel

Hot Chicken Takeover

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

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