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  • 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
  • 03 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

are already encouraging us to share private information automatically. For example, if you are using Google Maps on your iPhone, you are most likely sending information to Google about your location and speed—data the company aggregates... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
  • 21 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 21, 2010

aggregate the "information" and "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that this is problematic. Information and communication technologies have very different effects on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

highly consistent with that of the pre-fee aggregate private equity index. The passive replicating strategy represents an economically large improvement in risk- and liquidity-adjusted returns over direct allocations to private equity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

returns across time horizons exhibit strong return predictability up to three years ahead and produce an aggregate equity term structure that tracks economic conditions. The implied term structure is upward sloping during normal or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

Behavior and Impact of Patent Trolls: A Survey By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We survey the empirical literature on non-practicing entity (NPE) litigation behavior and its consequences. We document both View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

Nordgren, 2006), both modes of thinking have particular advantages: conscious thought can follow strict rules, whereas unconscious thought is better suited for integrating numerous decision attributes. Because most complex decisions require both adherence to precise... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice Authors:Robin Greenwood, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel Hanson Abstract We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises because firms behave as macro... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

feature more volatile returns, and the volatility of a parent company's aggregate foreign returns also increases with the extent of the firm's political risk exposure. Parent companies mitigate the cost of return volatility by adjusting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

formats now fit only a narrow segment of the population. Finally, much of retail growth over the last three decades has relied on aggregating volume to support a large store infrastructure. However, this volume may not materialize in any... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

Alumni Books Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk by Gary Antonacci (MBA 1978) (McGraw-Hill) Antonacci explains his investing method, which combines U.S. stock, non-U.S. stock, and aggregate... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

variation in average asset returns than aggregate or non-stockholder consumption risk and provides more plausible economic magnitudes. We find that risk aversion estimates around 10 can match observed risk premia for the wealthiest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

Publication: Journal of Public Policy and Marketing 27, no. 2 (fall 2008): 202-206 Abstract The authors propose a political theory perspective for examining the impact of the modern aggregate marketing system on consumer welfare and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

management as one of the few policy levers to support aggregate demand. Download working paper: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2014/09/30_government_debt_management_zlb/30_government_debt_management_zlb.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

the absence of good news. This commitment provides the latter a greater incentive to collect information than a monitor holding the aggregate claim would have. Thus debt and equity are shown to be complementary instruments in firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015

level of outperformance has been steadily declining. The second investment objective is to achieve aggregate outperformance of 1 percent or more over appropriate market and industry benchmarks on a rolling five-year annualized basis. The... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity. This article discusses the role of investment banking and investment management industry veterans on the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the growth of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

Side of the Vote: Biased Voters, Social Information, and Information Aggregation Through Majority Voting Authors: Rebecca B. Morton, Marco Piovesan, and Jean-Robert Tyran Abstract We experimentally investigate information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne