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- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
public and private regulatory activities. Read the paper: http://www.gcbpp.org/files/EPV/EPV_Short_RobustEnforcement_92012.pdf Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
600 urban centers accounting for roughly 60 percent of global GDP. The creation of this economic and social value, however, involves the consumption of considerable natural resources. For example, cities today contain 50 percent of the... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54078 Stock Market Returns and Consumption By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Kaveh Majlesi Abstract—This paper employs Swedish data containing security level information on households'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
consumption growth by a representative agent with a high elasticity of intertemporal substitution. This paper documents several empirical difficulties for the model as calibrated by Bansal and Yaron (BY, 2004) and Bansal, Kiku, and Yaron... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
MacCulloch Publication:Chap. 6 in Policymaking Insights from Behavioral Economics, 309-355. Boston: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2009 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download chapter: http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/conf/BehavioralPolicy2007/chapter6.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
The global unconventional gas market, valued at $93.95 billion in 2012, is expected to reach $126.93 billion by 2019, according to a recent report by Transparency Market Research. Coal's market share is expected to decrease accordingly.... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
conversely, the flaunting of a busy life and a dearth of leisure time. In addition, people’s relative interest in buying luxury experiences versus luxury products is increasing. Technology has introduced new business models, such as collaborative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
Abstract—The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
poor financial markets, b) increases in the share of FDI or the relative productivity of the foreign firm leads to higher additional growth in financially developed economies compared to those observed in financially under-developed ones,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
authorities will soon deplete their supply. I evaluate a series of possible responses to this shortage: sharing addresses impedes new Internet applications and does not seem to be scalable. A new numbering system ("IPv6") offers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
extraction, and increased refinancing mortgagors’ consumption by an additional $76 billion. This de facto allocation of credit across mortgage market segments, combined with sharp bunching around GSE eligibility cutoffs, establishes an... View Details
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
revenues over time. Perhaps this sounds intuitive, but it doesn't necessarily correspond with the popular belief that one or two popular songs can "make" an album. My findings suggest that as music consumption moves online,... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
economy.” They don’t know the inner workings, but “what are the interest rates?” They have high sensitivity to transactions and to partners, because everything’s a bespoke, one-off transaction. Typically, people like this also see the View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
decent pay and job security) workforce to supply the manpower with which to create sophisticated products. The export of these well-designed and efficiently produced goods was actively supported by the government in many ways while domestic View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107029 How Media Choices are Changing Online Advertising Harvard Business School Note 707-458 What is the response by advertisers as media consumption moves to the digital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
he began to share his insights more widely with family, friends, and students. In this groundbreaking book, Christensen puts forth a series of questions: How can I be sure that I'll find satisfaction in my career? How can I be sure that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Abstract—This working paper examines the impact of two entrepreneurs who offered alternative paths to reach their shared goal of a more sustainable world. Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins were respective founders of the prominent outdoor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
firms. They also affect trading signal classifications, back-testing inferences, track records of individual analysts, and models of analysts' career outcomes in the three years following the changes. Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace