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  • 24 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages

16,000 people unemployed at the end of April 2021 who received federal benefits through the CARES Act of 2020. The authors analyzed anonymized bank transaction data from January 1 through September 17, 2021. Researchers then compared the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 30 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

of patent applications, on facilitating transactions in the market for ideas. Standard-Essential Patents Josh Lerner builds a framework for the analysis of standard-essential patents and suggests a policy reform. Playing Favorites: How... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 13 May 2002
  • Op-Ed

A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures

account for transactions under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) while reducing transparency and aggressively maximizing earnings and debt. Creative accounting is part of the competition among auditors that has led to lower... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch; Accounting
  • 18 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

lawsuits alleging that the company had damaged creditors in their quest to preserve equity value. Of particular focus were a series of transactions that took place during 2013 and 2014 to sell assets from one subsidiary to another and to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

perceived benefits from lowering transactions costs to foreign financial-statement users increase and contribute significantly towards the country's decision to adopt IFRS. We find that perceived network benefits increase the degree of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

increased scope for markets, and distrust of markets generally. Our results suggest that while the public is potentially receptive to compensating kidney donors, among those who oppose it, general disapproval towards certain kinds of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007

with relatively little industry experience and those with considerable experience but in other industries. The increase in investment rates does not affect the success of these transactions adversely to a significant extent. These... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

hypothesis that perceived network benefits from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS can explain part of countries' shift away from local accounting standards. That is, as more jurisdictions with economic ties to a given country adopt IFRS, perceived benefits from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

sample of M&A deals from 2003 to 2015 to identify four such areas of evolution in current transactional practice: (1) termination fee "creep," which was pervasive in the 1980s and 1990s, seems to have gone away by the 2000s;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

their ongoing relationships with suppliers; and the gender diversity of their audit teams. Providing the first comprehensive and systematic findings on supply chain monitoring, our study identifies previously overlooked transaction costs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Mercadal “We use a detailed dataset on electricity transactions to investigate the impact of market-based deregulation in the context of the United States electricity sector. We find that the increase in markups dominates despite modest... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Name Your Price. Really.

think about the transaction influences their behavior. "Exchange norms" are defined by reciprocity—I get this, you get that. It's the kind of interaction we have with business associates or when we are buying a house or a car.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
  • 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4

five arguments: the triple agency conflict argument in agency theory; the owner risk argument in transaction costs economics; the advantage and disadvantage of ownership argument in the resource-based view (RBV); the power escape argument... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5

  PublicationsThe Labor Illusion: How Operational Transparency Increases Perceived Value Authors:Ryan W. Buell and Michael I. Norton Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract A ubiquitous feature of even the fastest self-service technology View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207077 Framedia Harvard Business School Case 207-057 Examines an acquisition in the highly competitive new media advertising industry in China in late 2005. The transaction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

Xu Abstract—We investigate how dynamic pricing can lead to more product returns in the online retail industry. Using detailed sales data of more than two million transactions from the Indian online retail market, where price promotions... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

translate economic theory and analysis into practical solutions to real-world problems. By redesigning both the rules that guide market transactions and the infrastructure that enables those transactions to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

transactions and markets we see. When my colleagues and I have helped design markets and allocation procedures, we have often found that distaste for certain kinds of transactions is a real constraint, every... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51460 Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of Corporate Credit Risk By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary data on all credit default swap (CDS) transactions in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

firms that operate online marketplaces. "Online marketplaces are a great innovation with extraordinary potential, but they also present important challenges, as explored in this paper. We hope companies will design their sites to facilitate View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising

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