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  • 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

legal sales of music. While this question is receiving considerable attention in academia, industry and in Congress, we are the first to study the phenomenon employing data on actual downloads of music files. We match an extensive sample... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

effective in publicly soliciting donations to a range of charities than confederates seated in a regular chair. In Experiment 2, whites changed their private attitudes more following face-to-face appeals from black than white... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

Abstract We build a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with two features: (1) endogenous and slow diffusion of technologies from the developed to the developing country and (2) adjustment costs to investment flows. We calibrate the model to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024

distribution, unrestricted current use gifts, and restricted current use gifts—accounted for $292 million, or 27 percent of the School’s total revenues. This matched the proportion of revenue represented by philanthropy in the prior year.... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

institution to donate funds and expertise to build a half-way house for homeless teenagers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the bank has a major presence, and to link up schoolchildren in New England and Latin America over the Internet. "What... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

inequality affects behaviour towards the rich and poor. In Experiment 1, participants who became aware that wealthy individuals donated a smaller percentage of their income switched from rewarding the wealthy to rewarding the poor. In... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

illustrate the process and power of market design through three examples: the design of medical residency matching programs, a scrip system to allocate food donations to food banks, and the recent “Incentive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

through three examples: the design of medical residency matching programs, a scrip system to allocate food donations to food banks, and the recent "Incentive Auction" that reallocated wireless spectrum from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

time, and expensive because it used diesel, which costs a whole lot and was hard for him to get. Morrell: A visiting dignitary flipped a switch to turn on the local grid. Poindexter: So we get to the chief's house, the soccer match is... View Details