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  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

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
  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

is currently provided by GAAP financial reporting. The purpose of this paper is to examine the optimal design of information intermediaries that can increase the impact of sustainability information on corporate conduct. Specifically, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

markets. Portfolio inflows that capture those financial market investments are much higher in South Africa than they are for other regions of the world. Q: Your case describes the complexities of good FDI and "bad" (or at least... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

into an IRA) to determine and implement a dynamically optimized portfolio strategy that maximizes the chance of achieving your desired retirement income goal. Over the years, that managed View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

guidance for leaders considering these questions and can help them estimate their optimal span of control. The issues explored are ones many senior executives-not just CEOs-should revisit throughout their careers. The best leaders stay... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

attention to the returns of firms that do not issue at all, suggesting that issuance is partly an attempt to cater to broad time-varying patterns in characteristics mispricing. Our approach helps forecast returns to portfolios based on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

portfolio liquidations, which result in temporary drops in stock prices, and identify the brokers that intermediate these trades. We show that these brokers’ best clients tend to predate on the liquidating funds: at the beginning of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

held by the mutual fund clients of the analyst's brokerage firm. The optimism in analyst recommendations increases with the weight of the stock in a mutual fund client's portfolio and the commission revenue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

liquidated include Borders Group in 2012, Circuit City in 2009, and Linens `n Things in 2008; the value of inventory sold during these liquidations alone is $3B. The store liquidation problem is related to but also differs substantially from the markdown View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

has chosen to examine make them difficult to manage and generate conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. Indeed, he points out that managers often forgo large, risky projects—even those that are expected to add... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 22 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

funding for small businesses. The outstanding portfolio balance of online lenders has grown about 175 percent a year, compared to a decline of about 3 percent in the traditional banking sector. However, it still only represents less than... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

price information to maximize their consumption-based utility. Emotionally, prices can induce regret and anger among consumers. The optimal responses of firm's prices to these reactions can explain why firms charge prices below marginal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

managers, investors, and regulators. The basic analytical tool is the risk-adjusted balance sheet, which shows the sensitivity of the enterprise's assets and liabilities to external "shocks." At the national level, the sectors of an economy are viewed as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

relationship, greater partner integration is associated with higher costs, but not with higher product quality. Our results shed light on the subtle interplay between formal and relational contracting. They have important implications for practice, with respect to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

out less-intensive users of the product. High prices do not cause greater product use than low prices for a given buyer, but there is some evidence that the act of paying increases use. Our estimates imply that positive prices may be View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22

liabilities to external "shocks." At the national level, the sectors of an economy are viewed as interconnected portfolios of assets, liabilities, and guarantees—some explicit and others implicit. Traditional approaches have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 The Empirical Economics of Online Attention By: Boik, Andre, Shane Greenstein, and Jeffrey Prince Abstract—In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira Publication: American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 98 (May 2008): 297-303 Abstract We investigate optimal consumption, asset accumulation and portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

find that each $1 invested in display and search leads to a return of $1.24 for display and $1.75 for search ads, which contrasts sharply with the estimated returns based on standard metrics. We use these results to show how optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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