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- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
companies increasingly are participants in open communities of science and technology. To participate in the system of exchange in such communities, firms often publicly disclose what would otherwise remain private discoveries. In a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
pace due to the increased rate at which we now exchange information. That’s why it is more important than ever for managers to make increased efforts to stay relevant and protect against skill obsolescence.... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
trust in traditional media is at its highest point in the past decade at 66 percent. But trust in social media platforms languishes at around 43 percent, and in this era of fake news, fixed elections and fraudulent data, regaining the... View Details
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
influence portfolio choices by exploring the response to the distinctive treatment of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA). JGTRRA lowered the dividend tax rate to 15% for American equities and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
non-performing loans and an increase in interest rate spreads, suggesting that foreign concerns bought domestic banks that had been making loans with low interest rates to parties that had a low probability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
early in a relationship. We show that certain kinds of exchange partners can systematically reap differential returns from a common history of interaction. Organizational similarity significantly enhances the ability of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
quickly, and those agents choose the platform with a restricted number of candidates. This is because those agents value the higher rate of acceptance more than access to more candidates. In contrast, agents with higher outside option... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
(vs. 50% subsidy: 3.9%, p<.0001; vs. hybrid: 3.7%, p<.0001). Among enrollees, there were no differences among the four groups in attendance or weight loss. Conclusion: This pragmatic trial, conducted in a real-world workplace setting, suggests that higher View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
little different for supposedly constrained and unconstrained firms, even though we find important differences in their characteristics and sources of financing. On the other hand, privately held firms (particularly small ones) and public firms with below... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
of a front page per month, or 37% of a standard deviation in our measure of coverage. The results control for newspaper, month, and individual corruption scandal fixed effects. Download the paper from SSRN ($5):... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
and Heidi Liu Abstract— Eleven experiments provide evidence that people have a tendency to “shoot the messenger,” deeming innocent bearers of bad news unlikeable. In a preregistered lab experiment, participants rated messengers who... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
sovereign default induced by legal rulings in the case of Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital. We find that a 10% increase in the probability of default causes a 6% decline in the value of Argentine equities and a 1% depreciation of a measure of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
by maintaining a relatively large balance sheet, even when policy rates have moved well away from the zero lower bound (ZLB). In so doing, it can help ensure that there is an ample supply of government-provided safe short-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
While some find the idea of exchanging digital tokens puzzling, in many ways it’s nothing new—through the same type of technology that powers cryptocurrency, NFTs provide a sort of “digital deed” that we can use to establish ownership of... View Details
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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings illuminate a continuum of open systems to closed systems phenomenological assumptions revealed in this microprocess research. Analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
instead of participating in negotiated exchange offers. This paper critically examines this claim and argues that the incentives for holdout litigation are limited because of (1) significant constraints on creditor litigation, (2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
corporate bonds. Insurance companies have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher yield, higher CDS bonds. This behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
decision rights and (2) adjust for local information, including historical performance data, in their decisions. These decision-making patterns are associated with large and systematic differences in learning rates across business units.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
and quasi-formal structures. This leads us to expect to find a higher proportion of homophilous interactions within these organizational structures than across their boundaries. We test our theory in an analysis of the rate of dyadic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel