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- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
year gains. We evaluate the performance of all policies under consideration using the same statistical and simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity analysis (for instance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
of experiments—including a field experiment where she posed with students as snack bar employees—Santana found that by subtly manipulating the environment, sellers can dramatically change what some buyers are willing to pay. Retailers are... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random assignment. Precisely conforming to theory predictions, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
comparatively straightforward corporate bonds by citing 10-year historical data from Fitch on their default probability. Within the 10 investment grade rating categories of AAA to BBB-, the annualized default rate only varies between .02... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
compare prices over the web irons out cross-border price differences and expands trade. A poor farmer in India can check commodity prices on the Internet before he sells his crop to the local buyer. Thanks to a progressive decline in data... View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
through a vivid exploration of the political processes determining our system of accounting rules upon which depends our ability to reliably measure corporate profits in the economy. The book shows how some corporate interests, in the spirit of increasing profits, have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
product specifications significantly increases the impact of the price subsidy on take-up. Taken alone, the information manipulation has no significant impact on demand, while the price subsidy substantially increases demand. However,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
paper uses data from the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances to test the relationship between the banks' market power and households' self-reported levels of credit constraints. The 1983 Survey was the last to identify households' geographic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
estimated at over $2,200/year by Edmunds.com, with gross margins on such repairs typically at 50 percent." Hence, testing facilities have ample incentive to exhibit leniency, meaning, they manipulate the testing equipment or find... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
managing demand - using modern sensors and valves, remote measurement, big data optimization algorithms, mobile apps, and other innovations - is a more powerful way to benefit citizens and businesses than just pumping more stuff through... View Details
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
available for download Banking Deregulation, Financial Constraints, and Entrepreneurship Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We study how U.S. branch banking deregulations affected the entry of new firms in the non-financial sector using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
utilize such data are of considerable interest. Unfortunately, existing methods for analyzing the data in such systems ignore the open-ended exploratory nature of such systems that requires the assessment of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity using a computationally light two-step estimator. Second, we illustrate how discount factors can be estimated in a dynamic structural model using field... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
believed their partner would be trustworthy while Democrats predicted 62 percent would. Both wildly underestimated. The actual reciprocation rate of Player B was 93 percent for Republicans and 85 percent for Democrats. Minor and Hernandez then did another treatment to... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
in the jungle. "Social structures evolve, and the ability to manipulate those from the top is probably limited." For baseball, Baker looked for leaders in the bullpen and on the bench, someone from the infield and someone from... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
yielding better results in particular decisions has been by running experiments that alter blood glucose levels. Could you tell us more about that? A: We ran experiments where we manipulated the amount of sugar people ingested in a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
various disciplines. Recent work has begun to focus on a previously overlooked factor predicting dishonest behavior: the beneficiary or victim of dishonest acts. In two laboratory experiments, we manipulate the level of resources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
problem is that these managers don't know what metrics to measure or how to interpret the results. They may collect all manner of plausible marketing-performance metrics, from customer satisfaction to retention, but if these can't be correlated with marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
and the environment while still creating value for their shareholders. How to Become a Sustainable Company Authors: Robert G. Eccles, Kathleen Miller Perkins, and George Serafeim Publication: MIT Sloan Management Review 53, no. 4 (2012) Abstract Using field and survey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found that companies performed better when they appointed insiders to the job of CEO. Other researchers, including Jim Collins in "Good to Great," have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne