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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Robert C. "Lifetime Portfolio Selection Under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case." Review of Economics and Statistics 51, no. 3 (August 1969): 247-257. ** Merton, Robert C. "A Model of Contract Guarantees for Credit-Sensitive, Opaque... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 30
crisis of 2008-2009, emerging-market governments have increasingly restricted foreign capital inflows. The data show a statistically significant drop in cumulative abnormal returns for Brazilian firms following capital control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23
year gains. We evaluate the performance of all policies under consideration using the same statistical and simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity analysis (for instance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18
market. We present statistics on the activity in these market mechanisms and present survey evidence that both mechanisms have facilitated matches. The paper concludes by discussing the emergence of platforms for transmitting job market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0701H Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D Authors:Josh Lerner and Julie Wulf Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming). (Earlier... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
response in a robust way, using rigorous statistical analysis. Q: In general, what were your conclusions at this stage of your research? A: Previous research on disruptive technology suggested that that challenge was basically one of... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
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The Geography of Corporate Giving
examining corporate and nonprofit growth for close to 1,000 communities over the period from 1987 to 2002. In addition to the interviews for this study, we have also created a database that enables us to understand the statistical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty by Jeff Madrick (MBA 1971) Knopf By official count, more than one in six American children live below the poverty line. But statistics alone tell... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
the market. But when Lerner and Cao started analyzing the actual performance numbers, they saw that conventional wisdom had it wrong. "Reverse LBOs appear to consistently outperform other IPOs and the stock market as a whole. The positive returns appear to be... View Details
- 02 May 2023
- Blog Post
Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
career and life criteria. Often you might not know from looking at a company’s statistics whether that's going to be the right place for you, so you need to meet and talk to employees. As you narrow down your target list, I recommend... View Details
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Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
holds more than 50,000 retired cases used for teaching at HBS from the 1920s to the current day. These cases offer insight into the challenges facing companies and include historic and statistical data. There are over 500 retired cases... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
drive up the cost of capital and curb investment. This paper evaluates the effects of capital controls on firm-level stock returns and real investment using data from Brazil. On average, there is a statistically significant drop in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
private creditors is positively correlated with growth; and (4) public savings are strongly positively correlated with growth, whereas the correlation between private savings and growth is flat and statistically insignificant. These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2014
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How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
what's being done and allowing them to see it for themselves," says Buell. "Moving from the 'base case' where we just show statistics to a transparent version of the website that shows the problems that are being addressed,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
related impressive statistic is that 13% of all public research and 23% of all private research in Denmark were funded by the foundation!). Arla Foods is the world’s fourth largest dairy company and the largest organic dairy producer. The... View Details
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
who “drummed” up business and sometimes used drums to attract attention. 15 Sidney A. Sherman, “Advertising in the United States,” Publications of the American Statistical Association , vol. 7, no. 52 (December 1900): 124. The rise of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
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Rediscovering America
Because it’s a problem that we could actually solve right now! A statistic from a Washington, D.C., hospital network highlights the seriousness of the situation: Sixty percent of physicians’ time at that hospital system was spent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Academic Cross-Pollination
faculty in 1998. “It took me a while to find my niche.” His on-going research at HBS synthesizes elements of history, sociology, business, and statistics (see sidebar). In the classroom, Fleming has carved out a place for himself helping... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
the first-differenced advertising series is plausibly exogenous over the sample period. We find that advertising has a positive and statistically significant effect on expected revenues, but that the effect varies strongly across movies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2024
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Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
years earlier,” says Calvo. “Then we (calculated) the expected election’s results based on those numbers.” The results weren’t good for forecasters, even after the authors statistically “stacked the deck” to favor demographic-based... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald