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  • 02 Jun 2012
  • News

Free Exchange: Silicon Sally

  • January 2013
  • Article

Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment

When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Investment; Equity; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation
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    Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment

    When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes... View Details

    • 01 Oct 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Negative Shocks and Innovation: Evidence from Medical Device Recalls

    Keywords: by George P. Ball, Jeffrey T. Macher, and Ariel Dora Stern; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
    • 2022
    • Article

    Diffusing Management Practices within the Firm: The Role of Information Provision

    By: Michael J. Lenox and Michael W. Toffel
    Why are some firms more successful in adopting profitable environmental management practices than others? A key role of corporate managers is to encourage subsidiaries to adopt innovative practices. We examine the conditions under which corporate managers use... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Strategy; Information Provision; Environmental Management; Knowledge Dissemination
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Market Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in Europe

    By: Christopher S. Armstrong, Mary E. Barth, Alan D. Jagolinzer and Edward J. Riedl
    This study examines the European stock market reaction to sixteen events associated with the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Europe. European IFRS adoption represented a major milestone towards financial reporting convergence yet... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Financial Markets; Code Law; Standards; Adoption; Europe
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    • March 2010
    • Article

    The Evolution of Corporate Ownership after IPO: The Impact of Investor Protection

    By: C. Fritz Foley and Robin Greenwood
    We use firm-level data from 34 countries covering the 1995-2006 period to analyze how the characteristics of public markets shape the process by which firms become widely held. Firms in all countries in the sample tend to have concentrated ownership at the time they go... View Details
    Keywords: Blockholding; Float; Shareholder Rights; Investor Protection; Ownership; Financial Liquidity; Business History; Market Timing; Going Public; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • 09 Dec 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

    and which will be most responsive to email campaigns, information that firms can use to improve marketing strategy and return on investment. “Companies are leaving money on the table,” says Ascarza, because they don’t know how to use most... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service
    • 13 Feb 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Electronic Hierarchies and Electronic Heterarchies: Relationship-Specific Assets and the Governance of Interfirm IT

    Keywords: by Andrew McAfee, Marco Bettiol & Maria Chiarvesio; Technology
    • 28 Sep 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Scale without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics

    Keywords: by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell & Feng Zhu; Technology
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Collusion in Markets with Syndication

    By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Richard Lowery and Jordan M. Barry
    Many markets, including markets for IPOs and debt issuances, are syndicated: each winning bidder invites competitors to join its syndicate to complete production. Using repeated extensive form games, we show that collusion in syndicated markets may become easier as... View Details
    Keywords: Collusion; Antitrust; IPO Underwriting; Syndication; ＂Repeated Games＂
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    • 06 Feb 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Does Public Ownership and Accountability Increase Diversity? Evidence from IPOs

    Keywords: by Rembrand Koning and John-Paul Ferguson
    • Research Summary

    Do Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

    This paper investigates how market position influences firm propensity to adopt new process innovations. Using detailed data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures, I study the adoption of frontier e-business practices during the early diffusion of the commercial... View Details

    • 13 Mar 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business

    • 13 Oct 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Market Competition, Government Efficiency, and Profitability Around the World

    Keywords: by Paul M. Healy, George Serafeim, Suraj Srinivasan & Gwen Yu
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Evaluation and Learning in R&D Investment

    By: Alexander P. Frankel, Joshua L. Krieger, Danielle Li and Dimitris Papanikolaou
    We examine the role of spillover learning in shaping the value of exploratory versus incremental R&D. Using data from drug development, we show that novel drug candidates generate more knowledge spillovers than incremental ones. Despite being less likely to reach... View Details
    Keywords: Research and Development; Forecasting and Prediction; Valuation; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • August 1987 (Revised December 1998)
    • Background Note

    Capital Market Myopia

    By: William A. Sahlman and Howard H. Stevenson
    Focuses attention on a phenomenon we call capital market myopia, a situation in which participants in the capital markets ignore the logical implications of their individual investment decisions. Viewed in isolation, each decision seems to make sense. When taken... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Markets
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    • 12 Aug 2018 - 14 Aug 2018
    • Conference Presentation

    Abstraction, Knowledge Flows, and the Rapid Dissemination of Emerging Technologies

    By: Willy C. Shih
    Many emerging technologies are remarkably complex and embody high levels of technological sophistication, and they often are key enablers for new products and services. Yet the speed of dispersal of the know-how required to employ these technologies and foster... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Technologies; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Dissemination
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Product-Market Competition and Managerial Autonomy

    By: Christian Alejandro Ruzzier
    It is often argued that competition forces managers to make better choices, thus favoring managerial autonomy in decision making. I formalize and challenge this idea. Suppose that managers care about keeping their position or avoiding interference, and that they can... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Competition; Decision Making
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    • Research Summary

    Product-Market Competition and Managerial Autonomy

    It is often argued that competition forces managers to make better choices, thus favoring managerial autonomy in decision making. I formalize and challenge this idea. Suppose that managers care about keeping their position or avoiding interference, and that they can... View Details