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- 20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007
Working PapersNone this week PublicationsFinancial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Author:Shawn Cole Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract In 1980, India... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
allocation at a top-tier fund, they're going to go further down the food chain…so I think there's no equilibrating mechanism right now," Sahlman said. "Is that a problem?" "There's a lot of capital out there now trying to be placed," noted... View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
affiliated might have "won the race" by just a nose, with their observed level of optimism being only slightly higher than that of the other competitors. Indeed, many previously documented significant differences between affiliated and unaffiliated analysts'... View Details
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
the effect is small—averaging about one pitch a game—it is consistent and statistically significant, ruling out simple human error. A pitcher's race may influence how an umpire calls balls and strikes. Photo: iStockPhoto What was more... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22
Dharmapala Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
and friend for over 30 years. The bulk of this article develops an account of his intellectual trajectory from game theory to statistical decision theory to decision analysis and to negotiation analysis. It suggests how these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
of HelloBrain.com Intelligent, handheld devices that hold basic information such as personal calendars and statistics have been around for some time, Schreck reminded the group. The great innovation of the Palm, he offered, was that it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
is not statistically significant at conventional levels. However, we also find that the effect is moderated by employee engagement, such that the gamified training platform improved performance in offices with high employee engagement and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
addition, firms with more KLD concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory compliance violations in later years. KLD environmental strengths, in contrast, do not accurately predict pollution... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
get people browsing through the stores. Despite what Apple says, the statistics suggest that there is no significant conversion of non-Macintosh users to Macintosh users on the basis of the stores. So, if you think of it as an investment... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24
pioneering work of Howard Raiffa and often expressed in the pages of the Negotiation Journal, the emergent prescriptive field of "negotiation analysis" progressively developed from Raiffa's early contributions to game theory and to his later foundational work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
integration into receiving countries. In this study, 23,800 citizens were randomly assigned to receive visits from political activists during the lead-up to the 2010 French regional elections. Treatment increased the turnout of immigrants without having any View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
Statistics Trade Credit and Taxes By: Desai, Mihir, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Abstract—This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax incentives. Tax-induced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
experiments, panel data, matching, and regression discontinuity. The note is intended for a general audience and does not require advanced statistics knowledge. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/616009-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22
of viable jobs. Equilibria can then feature groups that learn naively from the experience of their members and accept low wage offers from prominent ads while other groups do not find these offers acceptable. A new test statistic is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25
in response to Senator Frelinghuysen's remarks. A final document presents the Cherokee perspective and the reasons for their opposition to removal as represented by a memorial letter, written to the United States Congress in 1829. A View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010
"truth in giving" policies are highly responsive to recipient heterogeneity and biased against more generous giving. Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Publication:The Review of Economics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006
negative relation between this measure and both future stock returns and future profitability. The economic and statistical significance of our results is stronger than in previous research focusing on individual categories of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
organizational scholarship—like social science more broadly—turned rather resolutely away from theory toward statistical research and developed an intense preoccupation with narrowly circumscribed empirical studies. When compared to the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
figures of COVID-19. These are simply statistical comparisons of a current readout compared to historic trends. The same techniques can be used to quantify healthy building performance and changes over time. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More... View Details