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  • 03 Jan 2012
  • News

The Economy in 2012 And Your Money

    Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

    Best-Selling (MOST POPULAR) Cases:  

      1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

    • September 26, 2018
    • Article

    Ownership and Power Structure: Together at Last

    By: Laura Alfaro, Nicholas Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew Newman, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
    Economists have largely ignored the deep interdependency between integration and delegation. This column describes a new theory of integration and delegation choices aimed at shedding light on how these distinct elements of organizational design interact. Contrary to... View Details
    Keywords: Power; Organisational Design; Economics; Ownership; Organizational Design
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    • 02 Oct 2020
    • News

    Building a Just and Climate-Ready Economy in a Post-COVID World

    • April 2024
    • Article

    Loneliness and Emotion Regulation in Daily Life

    By: Lameese Eldesouky, Amit Goldenberg and Kate Ellis
    There is a growing understanding that emotion regulation (ER) abilities can be an important buffer for loneliness. However, most of this research is cross-sectional. Thus, it is unknown whether loneliness is associated with ER in momentary evaluations and can predict... View Details
    Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Emotions; Attitudes; Egypt
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    • August 2017
    • Article

    Tort Reform and Innovation

    By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
    Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a theoretical model that predicts that the impact... View Details
    Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Legal Liability; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • March 2012
    • Article

    China's Growing IT Services and Software Industry: Challenges and Implications

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia and Justin Wong
    The Chinese management software and IT services industry has grown dramatically over the past two decades and today is about the size of the Indian industry a decade ago. The objective of this article is to help CIOs in firms outside of China better understand the... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology Industry; China
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    • Article

    Core Earnings: New Data and Evidence

    By: Ethan Rouen, Eric C. So and Charles C.Y. Wang
    Using a novel dataset, we show that components of firms' GAAP earnings stemming from ancillary business activities or transitory shocks are significant in frequency and magnitude. These components have grown over time and are dispersed across various sections of the... View Details
    Keywords: Core Earnings; Transitory Earnings; Non-operating Earnings; Quantitative Disclosures; Equity Valuation; Big Data; Business Earnings; Financial Reporting; Valuation; Analytics and Data Science
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Tort Reform and Innovation

    By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
    Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a theoretical model which predicts that the... View Details
    Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Innovation and Invention; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • June 2021
    • Article

    Does the Freedom of Information Act Foil the Securities and Exchange Commission's Intent to Keep Investigations Confidential?

    By: Braiden Coleman, Kenneth Merkley, Brian Miller and Joseph Pacelli
    The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has a long-standing policy to keep formal investigations confidential. In this study, we examine the extent to which compliance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) provides investors with information about ongoing SEC... View Details
    Keywords: Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC) Investigations; Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA); Exemption Denials
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      "Selective Attention and Learning"

      What do we notice and how does this affect what we learn and come to believe? I present a model of an agent who learns to make forecasts on the basis of readily available information, but is selective as to which information he attends to: he chooses whether to... View Details
      • 21 Aug 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

      social media information and 5.73% when using social media information is used. In both cases, this significantly improves the accuracy of the company's internal forecasts (a MAPE of 11.97%). Combining these... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

        Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements

        This book provides a framework for business analysis and has been used by business schools throughout the world. It provides a foundation for analysis using four key steps: 1) Strategy analysis: Identifying a firm's strategy and understanding sources of its competitive... View Details
        • 23 Apr 2024
        • In Practice

        Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

        With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne
        • February 2024
        • Article

        Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials

        By: Marcella Alsan, Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta, Joshua Schwartzstein and Heidi L. Williams
        This article examines the consequences and causes of low enrollment of Black patients in clinical trials. We develop a simple model of similarity-based extrapolation that predicts that evidence is more relevant for decision-making by physicians and patients when it... View Details
        Keywords: Representation; Racial Disparity; Health Testing and Trials; Race; Equality and Inequality; Innovation and Invention; Pharmaceutical Industry
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        Waves in Ship Prices and Investment

        By: Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson
        We study the link between investment boom and bust cycles and returns on capital in the dry bulk shipping industry. We show that high current ship earnings are associated with high used ship prices and heightened industry investment in new ships, but forecast low... View Details
        Keywords: Business Earnings; Price; Investment; Shipping Industry
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        • 2016
        • Working Paper

        CEO Personality and Firm Policies

        By: Ian D. Gow, Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina
        Based on two samples of high quality personality data for chief executive officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits:... View Details
        Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Personal Characteristics; Management Teams
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        • 2011
        • Working Paper

        'Last-place Aversion': Evidence and Redistributive Implications

        By: Ilyana Kuziemko, Ryan W. Buell, Taly Reich and Michael I. Norton
        Why do low-income individuals often oppose redistribution? We hypothesize that an aversion to being in "last place" undercuts support for redistribution, with low-income individuals punishing those slightly below themselves to keep someone "beneath" them. In laboratory... View Details
        Keywords: Wages; Surveys; Wealth and Poverty; Behavior; Income; Research; Rank and Position; Attitudes; Personal Characteristics; Economics
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        • 2014
        • Working Paper

        Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis

        By: Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack and David Dreyfus
        In this paper, we test a method for visualizing and measuring software portfolio architectures and use our measures to predict the costs of architectural change. Our data is drawn from a biopharmaceutical company, comprising 407 architectural components with 1,157... View Details
        Keywords: Design Structure Matrices; Software Architecture; Flexibility; Software Application Portfolio; Complexity; Applications and Software; Forecasting and Prediction
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        • Forthcoming
        • Article

        FinTech Lending and Cashless Payments

        By: Pulak Ghosh, Boris Vallée and Yao Zeng
        Borrower's use of cashless payments both improves their access to capital from FinTech lenders and predicts a lower probability of default. These relationships are stronger for cashless technologies providing more precise information, and for outflows. Cashless payment... View Details
        Keywords: Fintech; Lending; Payments; Data Sharing; Financing and Loans; Information Technology; Banks and Banking; Business Model
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