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- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Abstract—We study the effect of different levels of information on two-sided platform profits under monopoly and competition. One side (developers) is always informed about all prices and therefore forms responsive expectations. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
this book undertook major restructurings without being in a financial crisis. Compared to the rest of the U.S. airline industry, United Air Lines was in relatively strong financial condition when its employees agreed to almost $5 billion... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
ventures. Specifically, we argue and show that although cultural beliefs that disassociate women from commercial activity may result in female social venture founders being less likely to use commercial activity than their male counterparts, these View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
with a decrease in debt-equity conflicts of interest. The changes are isolated to firms relatively closer to default. The ruling was also followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in covenant use. Finally, we View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper 10%... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
conditions on sequence memory. In addition, conscious thought appeared to increase intrusion nowness and arousal. Limitations. The analogue design and healthy participant sample prevent from generalizing results to other populations.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
conducive to remote work on average did not report comparatively higher gains in productivity as a result of the transition to working outside the office, says Luca. Those findings, the researchers believe, reflect View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
associated with being the first product to enter a new device market," concludes Stern. "As you can imagine, that results in a big cost for folks trying to bring new products to market." In fact, Stern conservatively estimates that delay... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
(forthcoming) An abstract is unavailable at this time. The Variance of Non-Parametric Treatment Effect Estimators in the Presence of Clustering Authors:Samuel G. Hanson and Adi... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
harness the network effects that previously had protected the incumbent. We present a typology of envelopment attacks based on whether platform pairs are complements, weak substitutes, or functionally unrelated, and we analyze View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
countries. I find that price levels are identical about 72% of the time. Price changes are not synchronized but have similar frequencies and average sizes. These results have implications for national statistical offices, researchers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
understanding of how consumers adopt innovations with how firms effectively acquire, serve, and retain customers. The result is a lens through which to view the commercial potential of innovations and a powerful vehicle for placing a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
intertemporal elasticity, optimal capital income tax rates are 2% on average and 4.5% on high earners. We find that the intertemporal elasticity of substitution has a substantial effect on optimal capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
a given condition, not just their own. Using Medicare data from 2010 and 2017, Dafny and her coauthors estimated the share of sales that assistance would need to induce to make such broad donations profitable for the leading 1-2... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
and unpublished data on unconscious thought were included. Our aims were to provide a statistically robust estimate of the effect size of the UTE, to identify significant moderators, and to discuss possible... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
right kind of competition working. The health care system can achieve stunning gains in quality and efficiency. And employers, the major purchasers of health care services, could lead the transformation. [ ] Positive-sum Competition In a healthy system, competition at... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
coming of age of biotechnology. The disappearance of "blockbuster" drugs could create new management challenges for pharmaceutical companies. — Gary Pisano The prospect is exhilarating, but the road to this brave new biotech world has more than a few bumps.... View Details
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
column. Anne, for example, pointed out that the German system assigns a certain number of immigrant families to specific villages, has them take German lessons, and gives job assignments with benefits conditioned upon taking a job if... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
flexible random coefficients aggregate discrete choice model that accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success, and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved quality in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
standard deviation increase in the divergence increases the average loan spread by approximately 18%, or 35 basis points. The effect of the excess control rights on the cost of bank debt is more pronounced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace