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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
expenditures, to manage earnings to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product, which can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
and has real investment implications: approximately 75% of the debt issuance funds increased capital expenditures and cash acquisitions. In the cross section, misvaluation affects financially constrained... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Putting the Project Puzzle Together
McFarlan: Fifty percent of all capital investment today is being done in IT projects. The way this money is spent deeply impacts the organization's future. It is because of the size of investment as a percentage of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
US outbound FPI and FDI, this paper analyzes whether the composition of US outbound capital flows reflect efforts to bypass home country tax regimes and weak host country investor protections. The cross-country analysis indicates that a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
cross-country analysis for the claim that OECD polices worsen poverty in developing countries. To better understand what might drive these results, we turn to national employment and household consumption and expenditure surveys from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
charge, gives away an average $310,000 in benefits over what the typical member has purchased. Not surprisingly, this Ponzi scheme collects far less of the taxes and premiums necessary to fund it. "Medicare’s leverage helps eliminate the one-third of health care... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets Authors:Pol Antras, Mihir Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
boards (SBs) on managers' behavior and on long-run firm value using a natural experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a SB on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find that the law led to an increase in Tobin's Q, increased investment in View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
and the $6 billion Oyu Tolgoi copper mine expansion in Mongolia (2014). Globally, firms financed a record $415 billion in capital expenditures using project finance in 2013, and the use of project-financed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
conditions over the past few years, but not nearly to the extent that other financing vehicles such as venture capital or other financial transactions such as mergers and acquisitions have been affected. From a peak of almost $220 billion... View Details
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
commercial hindrance. A recent study of more than 500 biomedical startups suggests that ventures rooted in the core research of their founders have a more challenging time reaching key measures of success, such as raising capital or... View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
expenditures on teammates lead to better performance in both sports teams in Canada and pharmaceutical sales teams in Belgium. These results suggest that a minor adjustment to employee bonuses-shifting the focus from the self to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
owned interests in TV broadcasting and digital media, was carrying high levels of debt despite deep workforce and capital expenditure cuts. It was a situation that led its CFO to express doubt that Media... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms. Venture capital and private equity investors are especially sensitive to these labor adjustment costs.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
be financially constrained or lobbied for the holiday. Instead, estimates indicate that a $1 increase in repatriations was associated with a $0.60 to $0.92 increase in payouts to shareholders—despite regulations stating that such View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Chambers announcing further capital expenditure in China but facing growing criticism by U.S. Congress and others for Cisco's human rights record. At the same time, Cisco faced a powerful domestic competitor... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
average firm in his state cut back capital expenditures by roughly 15 percent, according to their working paper, "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?" "It was an enormous... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
infrastructure is not obviously conducive to bankability. Infrastructure projects are even more difficult to make bankable than are other possible investments, since the capital expenditure is so focused... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Israeli start-ups raised record-breaking amounts of venture capital, and exits for the year totaled over $8 billion. On the other hand, government expenditure on R&D had decreased and Israel’s position in the Global Innovation Index... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
expenditures on education per capita and led to higher literacy rates and to more schools per children. The resulting distribution of human capital across states persists until today. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne