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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences Author:Lakshmi Iyer Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
FDI in China, and the expanding amount of economic research exploring these developments, a number of misconceptions distort the popular understanding of U.S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct four common misunderstandings by providing a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
strength of the country, is increasingly failing to provide stable policy decisions addressing the issues Sweden is facing. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53584 October 2017 Review of Economics and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
problem, and writing a detailed specification. The Jeopardy! problem is different—it requires a probabilistic approach where there is no closed-form solution. Instead statistical patterns in the data are important, and there is no obvious... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
specification. The Jeopardy! problem is different-it requires a probabilistic approach where there is no closed form solution. Instead, statistical patterns in the data are important, and there is no obvious mapping to the way queries are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1638429 Accounting Scholarship That Advances Professional Knowledge and Practice Author:Robert S. Kaplan Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
societies—what might be termed leadership with a big "L?" Or does it mean something fine grained and local—leadership with a small "l"? Taxes, Dividends and International Portfolio Choice Authors:Mihir Desai and D. Dharmapala Publication:The Review... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
reports involving high-risk cardiovascular devices by linking regulatory review times for all 106 new, high-risk cardiovascular devices approved from 2000 to 2009 to subsequent adverse event reports. Reports were classified as involving patient injury/death or not.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
private information is directionally strong, managers, at announcement, provide guidance and use language that points statistically in the opposite direction. This effect is more pronounced when, post-announcement, management insiders... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
out. These agents are more likely to alter their electronic currency balance on a day (rebalance). In contrast, agents trained in person but who receive summary statistics of transaction volumes or agents who are notified about the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008
grants, and a greater chance of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for the magnitude of the earnings surprise, operating and stock return performance, and are significant in a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
economic trends a central economic activity and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
They spend much more time paying attention to reviews of other people like them and trying to understand and gauge in an unbiased fashion what the real quality is of these products and services, particularly those in which you can’t evaluate before you buy the product.... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15
Publication:The Accounting Review 86, no. 2 (March 2011) Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008
about the outcome of wrongdoing influence both ethical judgments and decisions to punish wrongdoers. Our studies show that people judge behavior as more unethical when (1) identifiable versus statistical victims are involved and (2) the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006
Strategic Value Advisors—predict environmental performance. We find that firms that have more KLD Environmental Concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory violations in later years than firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
economic activity at the local level. However, these statistics typically appear only after multi-year lags, and the public-facing versions are aggregated to the county or ZIP code level. In contrast, crowdsourced data from online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
financial value. Yet scholars have recently shown that entrepreneurial activity by users is more widespread than previously believed. We present data and statistics documenting the prevalence, technological impact, and economic impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
returns and positively to post-announcement returns. When post-quarter private information is directionally strong, managers, at announcement, provide guidance and use language that points statistically in the opposite direction. This... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18
abandon, this strategy over a two-year period. We find that formal statistical tests of the hypotheses underlying the firm's balanced scorecard and strategy map reveal problems with the strategy on a timelier basis. We also test... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne