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  • 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

are not directly related to mining, such as trade, finance and services. We use quantile instrumental variable regression techniques and identify mostly homogeneous effects throughout the conditional city growth distribution. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008

are identified by exploiting random assignment and a separate instrumental variables procedure. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1264038 Welfare Payments and Crime Author:C. Fritz Foley Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

interest rate risk premium and a changing liquidity risk premium, and that the variability in the nominal bond risk premia reflects a changing inflation risk premium. We estimate significant time series View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

(shortest expected processing time). Moreover, they exercise more discretion as they accumulate experience. Exploiting random assignment of tasks to doctors’ queues, instrumental variable models reveal that these deviations erode... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

and levels of making the business case. 1) Research over the last decade has pointed to a complex relation between sustainability and financial performance. 2) Results have been influenced by different input and output variables applied... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2003
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Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

are quite different. You have to align their incentives, which means heavily weight the compensation of the management team to stock options, so that what makes them rich makes the shareholders rich. AG: The unstated supposition is that... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

match between firms, managers, and incentives using a new survey that contains information on managers' risk preferences and human capital, on their compensation schemes, and on the firms they work for. The data is consistent with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

transitory fluctuations remain largely unexplained. To help fill this gap, this paper further documents the recent rise in transitory fluctuations in compensation and investigates its linkage to the concurrent rise in volatility of firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

most sales compensation plans (about 70%, according to surveys) incentivize volume independent of the type of sale or cost-to-serve different customers. This is ineffective deal management and, to avoid this, some firms establish a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

309-073 Brief political, economic, and social timeline of China from 1949 to present to give context on and provide overview of modern Chinese history. Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309073... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

consumption fluctuations faced by individuals, households, and firms. Yet much of this promise remains unrealized. In this paper, we study the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product designed to compensate low-income Indian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

Abstract This paper decomposes the excess return predictability in inflation-indexed and nominal government bonds into effects from liquidity, market segmentation, real interest rate risk, and inflation risk. We estimate a large and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

participate or withdraw. Students need to use judgment with respect to estimates of key variables including stabilized income, construction cost, and minimum expectations for return on investment in order to prepare their bids. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1

Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://hbr.org/2011/03/the-short-life-of-online-sales-leads/ar/1   Working PapersRational Preference for Smaller Menus: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

asked to consider whether entry into web services by Amazon, which had established its brand in retail, represented a prudent move by the company. The case provides an opportunity to highlight the benefits of AWS's variable pricing for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

variability in productivity means the marginal productivity of labor depends substantially on which new workers are hired—which requires not an estimate of a causal effect, but rather a prediction. We demonstrate that there can be large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

of 9,360 U.S. cities found that air pollution predicted six different categories of crime; these analyses accounted for a comprehensive set of control variables (e.g., city and year fixed effects, population, law enforcement) and survived... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited liability typically enjoyed by credit officers. Second, we present direct evidence that incentive contracts distort judgment and beliefs, even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

welfare. Yet, our understanding of this decision is limited. Using an instrumental variables strategy and dataset new to this literature, we provide the first precise, causal estimates of the effects of education on financial market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

weighting of nonfinancial metrics in compensation contracts as a mechanism for generating improvements in nonfinancial dimensions of performance. I Read Playboy for the Articles: Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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