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  • 06 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

has researched stock price manipulation in Japan and looked specifically at firms like Livedoor. He says the Livedoor episode may, in the end, do some good by paving the road for reform of Japan's "abysmal" corporate governance.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

Abstract—Operational decisions under information asymmetry can signal a firm's prospects to less-informed parties, such as investors, customers, competitors, and regulators. Consequently, managers in these settings often face a tradeoff... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 1998
  • Case

Meinhard v. Salmon: Court of Appeals of New York (1928)

By: Henry B. Reiling
Meinhard and Salmon were joint venturers who had a 20-year lease on the Hotel Bristol in New York City. Salmon was the managing party. Four months before the lease was to end, the owner approached Salmon and offered to lease all the property, of which the Bristol was... View Details
Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Joint Ventures; Partners and Partnerships; Decisions; Asset Pricing; Leasing; New York (city, NY)
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Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios

By: Jakub W. Jurek and Luis M. Viceira
We develop an analytical solution to the dynamic portfolio choice problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon, who faces a time-varying investment opportunity set, parameterized using a flexible vector autoregression. We apply this... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Asset Pricing; Value
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  • 06 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 6

behavior are reduced (Study 5). Our results have important implications for models of ethical decision making, moral behavior, and self-regulatory theory. Publisher's link: http://www.francescagino.com August 2013 Journal of Finance The... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)

Above: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003) at GM World in Detroit’s Renaissance Center (photo by Brian Kelly) Who you are is the sum total of your experiences. Growing up in Chennai, India, the importance of education and working incredibly hard were drilled into my mind as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

Consumers are increasingly wary about sharing personal information with firms. Yet when they benefit from providing information in exchange for lower prices or better services, many consumers will gladly make the privacy trade-off. But... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 23 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up

amount barely moved the needle,” says Luo. She noticed that the agency reduced the requested amount without informing the infringers of the price reduction. She was curious about what might happen if the infringers are informed that the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
  • 28 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Harness Auction Fever

professor Deepak Malhotra. "These might all increase the likelihood of overbidding due to auction fever." This research comes from a recently published paper, coauthored with Gillian Ku, "Towards a Competitive Arousal Model of View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology
  • 23 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?

In theory, a board of directors protects the rights of shareholders. Independent directors are supposed to be just that—independent—free to dissent from a decision of the majority. The reality is more complex. Directors are tied to one... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

from consumers shopping at the more popular store. Second, the intermediary may have an incentive to degrade the quality of search even further when its design decision influences the prices charged by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Name Your Price. Really.

price. ©iStock.com/Rawpixel Ltd Examples of PWYW pricing abound in all industries: Radiohead's self-released its In Rainbows album with "name your price" downloads; the Dallas Theater Center holds "Pay-What-You-Can"... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
  • Profile

Mariama Keita

cocoa. One of the cases she has found especially relevant involved an Indian company that helps farmers understand worldwide commodities pricing. "Greater information gave them greater power," Mariama says. "The farmers could make more informed View Details
  • April 2011
  • Teaching Note

Carbon Trading Simulation: Green Cement Inc. (TN)

By: Peter A. Coles
Teaching Note for 911051. View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Trade; Decisions; Risk and Uncertainty; Production; Pollutants; Price; Sales; Profit
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  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

arise when cross-price elasticities are estimated for a set of brands expected to be substitutes. These anomalies are the occurrence of: (a) negatively signed cross-elasticities; and (b) sign asymmetries in pairs of cross price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2012
  • Article

Complicated Firms

By: Lauren Cohen and Dong Lou
We exploit a novel setting in which the same piece of information affects two sets of firms: one set of firms requires straightforward processing to update prices, while the other set requires more complicated analyses to incorporate the same piece of information into... View Details
Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Information; Price; Forecasting and Prediction; Complexity; Mathematical Methods
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  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

rational assessment of ethicality should not depend on the identifiability of the victim of wrongdoing or the actual harm caused if the judge and the decision maker have the same information. Yet in five laboratory studies, we show that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2006
  • Case

Stedman Place: Buy or Rent?

By: Andre F. Perold and David S. Scharfstein
A couple has to decide whether to continue renting a townhouse or buy the one next door. Allows for a discussion of net present value, internal rate of return, and the costs and benefits of homeownership. View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Asset Pricing; Investment Return; Housing; Family Ownership; Renting or Rental; Valuation
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  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2016
  • Blog Post

Reflecting on the Value of an MBA

get right to the core of the decision to get an MBA: “Is two years away from work and this tuition going to be a worthwhile investment in myself?” It’s also present in more mundane decisions while you’re... View Details