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  • 14 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 14

incentives to invent the research inputs in the first place. We study the effects of increases in the number of required inputs on innovation activity and optimal patent policy. We find that the probability of introducing the final... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican government radically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model predicts an inverted-U relationship between taxation and growth, with corruption reducing the optimal taxation level. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

  Publications August 2013 The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal By: Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton Abstract—In this paper we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2005) and their stated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

this disconnect: The different approaches the disciplines take to translating real-world behavior into the laboratory create a ''gap in abstraction,'' which contributes to crucial differences in philosophy about the roles of deception and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2020
  • In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

lump sums to estimations of RVU volumes if the crisis didn’t happen. My hope is that this crisis will provide the opportunity to rethink physician compensation in a way that maps physician incentives to the behaviors that generate value... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42640 Managing Risks: Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has become a crucial component of contemporary corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016

involvement of nonbank institutions and, in particular, the rise of mutual fund participation in the leveraged loan market after the financial crisis. Based on the wider syndication, (narrower) skills, and diverse incentives of nonbank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15

Stability and Incentives in Large Markets Authors:Fuhito Kojima, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract Accommodating couples has been a longstanding issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Patch Work

Congress came back into session in January 2025. Voters may no longer feel they have to answer calls from strangers, but government offices surely do, and on Capitol Hill, nonstop ringing phones direct lawmakers’ focus to constituent... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar
  • 18 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

facilities at the sites). I thought this example perfectly demonstrated the choice individuals, businesses, and governments have on hand: do you choose to mitigate and adapt to climate change and grow in the face of this challenge, or do... View Details
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

dampening the incentive to adopt managerial practices; and c) nonpecuniary returns to potentially inefficient but power-preserving practices. The findings presented in the paper provide support for a) and c), while we do not find evidence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

culture. We also find wide variation across variables for ratings consistency among analysts covering the same firm. On average, consistency is higher for sell-side than buy-side analysts, consistent with sell-side analysts facing greater View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

  PublicationsFamilienunternehmen in Westdeutschland. Corporate Governance und Gesellschafterkultur seit den 1960er Jahren (Family business in West Germany since the 1960s) Authors:Christina Lubinski Publication:Vol. 21, Schriftenreihe... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

also encourage innovation to solve problems that people haven’t solved before.” Regulations that are too loose can lead to confusion. This was the case in Brazil, where the government chose not to establish specific mobile money... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications
  • Web

Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

interests of society and spurs innovation. Even as we face challenges, I believe business can and will play a leadership role in devising solutions to the environmental, social, and governance problems that feel so urgent now. And this is... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

companies. The partners were allowed to spend up to $2 million at any one time without getting permission from the corporation. For larger expenditures, they were required to obtain permission from XTV's governing board, which consisted... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

reforms, we find that an increase in female representation in local government induces a large and significant rise in documented crimes against women in India. Our evidence suggests that this increase is good news, driven primarily by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

Career penalties for failing to meet the analyst consensus estimate are no different for firms where forecasting earnings is harder. Moreover, such penalties have increased in the post-SOX period. Our evidence suggests that incentives of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace