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- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
digitization of information goods have changed the commercial landscape: Virtual shelf space is infinite, consumers can search through innumerable options, and the marginal cost of reproducing and distributing products is low. What does... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
that a sizable decline in mortgage payments (up to 50%) induces a significant increase in car purchases (up to 35%). This effect is attenuated by voluntary deleveraging. Borrowers with lower incomes and housing wealth have significantly higher View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
show that optimal policy may simultaneously include substantial redistribution across income-earning abilities, as in the standard model, and reject three prominently proposed tags-gender, race, and height-as in actual policy. This explanation for limited tagging also... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
three prominently proposed tags-gender, race, and height-as in actual policy. This explanation for limited tagging also implies that optimal marginal tax rates at high incomes are lower than in standard analysis and closer to those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Teixeira Abstract—Online retail accounts for a rapidly growing proportion of revenues in many industries. While selling online broadens firms’ access to consumers, operating margins are often lower in online stores than in physical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
future promotion. The findings indicate that adverse selection concerns on the extensive margin of retaining workers drive the empirical regularity that firms rarely reduce compensation. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
capitalists at a firm and its success. When the individual investment professionals are highly specialized themselves, the marginal effect of increasing overall firm specialization is much weaker. The poorer performance by generalists... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
of these net shareholder payouts were offset by net debt issuances, and thus effectively recapitalizations rather than firm-shrinking distributions. After excluding marginal debt capital inflows, net shareholder payouts by public firms... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
such fees. Finally, endogenous affiliation on both sides (consumers and advertising) leads to stronger incentives to divert search relative to the one-sided exogenous affiliation (vertical integration) benchmark, whenever the marginal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
couple significantly strengthened the organization's talent, focused on innovation, growth, and provided a learning environment for their employees. Through cost efficiencies and pricing strategies, Elasto Therm was able to achieve higher View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
maps and financial data relating to the processes used during (1) an office visit to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses and (2) application and removal of three different casts in the orthopedic cast room. Students calculate and compare the costs and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
increases that would solve these problems are not expected in the near- or medium-term. The paper outlines first a number of directions for effecting improvement through marginal capacity increases and better management of demand and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
monopsony implies that wage changes have small effects on profits so that employer altruism affects wages as well. Even selfish firms act altruistically if workers punish firms that fail to do so. If the marginal utility of income falls... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
income taxation. I show analytically how age dependence improves policy on both the intratemporal and intertemporal margins. I use detailed numerical simulations, calibrated with data from the U.S. PSID, to generate robust policy implications: age dependence (1) lowers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8
Lehman bankruptcy. Baena must decide if there is an opportunity, how to structure a trade to exploit it, and how much of her fund's capital to allocate. Case exposition includes descriptions of basic financing arrangements that support arbitrage strategies, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007
brokerage—direct ties to collaborators who themselves do not have direct ties to each other—leads to greater collaborative creativity. We then test interaction hypotheses on the marginal benefits of cohesion, when collaborators have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
printed on the back of your receipt? A: In those instances, the coupons that you're given are a function of what you've just bought, and in that sense they have no memory of what kind of customer you really are. So they can be [only] View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
bicycles, appreciated for their retro look and style. Its country of origin had probably helped them exporting their products as their bicycles were 100% made in Italy, and the Made in Italy label had a reputation for high quality, craftsmanship, and creativity. Yet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20
One method multinationals use to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the optimal price for internal transfers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
very high expectations of performance and the margin for error is so small, you really need senior people to take you to the next level. Sahlman: Where did you guys learn how to pick people? Meakem: I used to think that I was a really... View Details