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  • winter 1986
  • Article

Auditor Changes Following Big Eight Mergers with Non-Big Eight Audit Firms

By: Paul M. Healy and Tom Lys
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Change; Business Ventures; Mergers and Acquisitions
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Healy, Paul M., and Tom Lys. "Auditor Changes Following Big Eight Mergers with Non-Big Eight Audit Firms." Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 5, no. 4 (winter 1986): 251–265.
  • July 2007
  • Article

Earnings Announcement Premia and Limits to Arbitrage

By: Daniel Cohen, Aiyesha Dey, Thomas Lys and Shyam Sunder
We examine the factors underlying the presence of earnings announcement premia. We find that the premia persist beyond the sample period examined in prior studies (ending in 1988), although they decline in magnitude after 1988. Further, premia are lower on the expected... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Announcements; Corporate Disclosure
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Cohen, Daniel, Aiyesha Dey, Thomas Lys, and Shyam Sunder. "Earnings Announcement Premia and Limits to Arbitrage." Journal of Accounting & Economics 43, nos. 2-3 (July 2007): 153–180.
  • 08 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief

surgery for a genetic condition. “I was lying in the MRI thinking, ‘I hope they find just the shadow of something suspicious and bad because then the decision won’t be up to me,’” she says. “Afterward, I was like, ‘That’s the craziest,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump

a little in hopefulness if they want to be hired. In marketing, hope takes the form of indulging puffery and exaggeration. The problem is that the temptation to shade from puffery to lying is always present. And the suspicion lurks that... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Deighton
  • July 31, 2017
  • Article

A Commitment Contract to Achieve Virologic Suppression in Poorly Adherent Patients with HIV/AIDS

By: Marcella Alsan, John Beshears, Wendy S. Armstrong, James J. Choi, Brigitte C. Madrian, Minh Ly T. Nguyen, Carlos Del Rio, David Laibson and Vincent C. Marconi
Objective: Assess whether a commitment contract informed by behavioral economics leads to persistent virologic suppression among HIV-positive patients with poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. Design: Single-center pilot randomized clinical trial and a... View Details
Keywords: Adherence; Antiretroviral Therapy; Behavioral Economics; Commitment Contract; Financial Incentives; HIV-1 Virologic Suppression; Health Disorders; Motivation and Incentives
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Alsan, Marcella, John Beshears, Wendy S. Armstrong, James J. Choi, Brigitte C. Madrian, Minh Ly T. Nguyen, Carlos Del Rio, David Laibson, and Vincent C. Marconi. "A Commitment Contract to Achieve Virologic Suppression in Poorly Adherent Patients with HIV/AIDS." AIDS 31, no. 12 (July 31, 2017): 1765–1769.
  • 26 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

and Sara Moore, who connected the dots between neural activity and success in the music industry. In a seminal lab experiment, teenagers listened to a series of new, relatively unknown songs while lying inside an fMRI machine. The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
  • 28 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

where top execs tested whether the current business model was robust enough for the challenges lying ahead. While LEGO has sold toys in Asia for three decades, there is serious potential to improve market share and maybe even outgrow... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 08 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

afterward, he and his mother contracted yellow fever; they were lying in bed together, very sick, when one morning he wakes up to find she's died. That's something you just don't get over, and I believe it contributed to the chip he... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking
  • 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

Brain Sciences Vicarious Contagion Decreases Differentiation—and Comes with Costs By: Sezer, Ovul, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Baumeister et al. propose that individual differentiation is a crucial determinant of group success. We apply their model to processes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

balance sheet. Since the new rules treat banks as if they have 100 percent of the risk of loss, they must put up capital as if that were true. So we've gone from one extreme to another, with the reality lying somewhere in between. If we... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

protagonist is trying to decide whether to purchase and develop an aquifer lying beneath rural land near Fresno, California. The project could fill a void for local farmers as well as surrounding municipalities and a variety of other... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

In mid-February 2009, Dubai Duty Free Managing Director Colm McLoughlin received the January sales report. He left the report lying on his desk unopened and went to walk around the shops as he did every morning. When he returned, he sat... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

July 31, 2017 AIDS A Commitment Contract to Achieve Virologic Suppression in Poorly Adherent Patients with HIV/AIDS By: Alsan, Marcella, John Beshears, Wendy S. Armstrong, James J. Choi, Brigitte C. Madrian, Minh Ly T. Nguyen, Carlos Del... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

States. Furthermore, figuring out whether partners really are where they say they are can be a challenge. One shouldn't assume that they're telling the truth about their location when they are lying about everything else. So that's one... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services
  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

the right word—and I had to negotiate about this. That experience gave me a sense that you can't be a passive person, even with the best of physicians. You have to understand what's going to happen and to negotiate about all the possible twists and turns ahead of time... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
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