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- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
one country or one city as opposed to another, due in part to differing institutional contexts. If so, then by aggregating the data, it's possible that researchers have been lumping together dissimilar cases that effectively cancel each... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
to ship it from overseas. And through the magic of capitalism, once you set it up, it’s self-sustaining.” Beyond that one community, the grain aggregator was able to upgrade its infrastructure, allowing other communities to improve as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
governance to an increased number of startups that they are more likely to abandon, but where early experiments significantly inform beliefs about the future potential of the venture. We also highlight how this adaptation by financial intermediaries has altered the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
the last decade, a variety of novel patent intermediaries have emerged. We discuss how several online platforms have started services for buying and selling patents but have failed to gain meaningful traction. And new intermediaries that we call defensive patent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
times the $132 billion that the 1995 Kobe earthquake did, making it one of the Japan's most costly natural disasters. Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
Dictators who devote resources to acquiring information are individuals whose giving is particularly responsive to recipient type. They use the information mainly to withhold resources from "undeserving" types, leading to a drastic decline in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Exploiting micro-level household consumption data, we show that long-run stockholder consumption risk better captures cross-sectional variation in average asset returns than aggregate or non-stockholder consumption risk and provides more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
highlight an important channel for alleviating financing constraints in small firms but also emphasize the general-equilibrium effects of large-scale interventions, which can lead to lower aggregate outcomes depending on labor market... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
firms had “slack,” but not through changing investments or accruals. These incentives are driven by the prestige associated with the index rather than capital market benefits. Back-of-envelope estimates suggest that the index accounted for 23% of the average increase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
category," Sadun says. "The reality is that IT is a huge, heterogeneous set of technologies." Similarly, when examining issues such as organization and productivity, industry and academic studies historically tend to treat information and communication... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
rivals — including radio and television stations, magazine and newspaper publishers, billboard and direct marketing firms — that compete for bigger pieces of the advertising pie. That pie, however, which represents national advertisers' View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
take their place and the need for stocking or tidying up merchandise at store level doesn't exist. Without a store network, real estate costs are confined to a handful of distribution centers. Inventory aggregation at a few key points of... View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
and produce an aggregate equity term structure that tracks economic conditions. The implied term structure is upward sloping during normal or expansion periods but flattens or inverts during economic downturns or times of high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
willing to serve." Boards also can make it feel safer for directors to give honest assessments by hiring an outsider to interview each board member individually and aggregate the information for both the board and the CEO. "That... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking U.S. patents to state and county-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
driven by large aggregator NPEs and is not the behavior of small innovators. We find further suggestive evidence of NPE opportunism, such as forum shopping and targeting of firms that may have reduced ability to defend themselves against... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
particularly useful for forecasting bond returns. We show that a significant decline in issuer quality is a more reliable signal of credit market overheating than rapid aggregate credit growth. We use these findings to investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
to monetizing news in the digital landscape, which is real-time, searchable, sharable, multi-sourced, anytime, and any screen, were emerging in 2010. Could content creators get people to pay for what they watched, read, listened to, and shared online? Were news View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which assembles information from court records and other sources to create an aggregate data set of members of Congress involved in a scandal. Minor studied incidents occurring between 2005... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
the aggregate appears increasingly less focused on small business lending. The share of small business loans of total bank loans was about 50 percent in 1995, but only about 30 percent in 2012. Moreover, small business owners report that... View Details