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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
living longer—but eventually dying of diseases that could plausibly have an environmental component. Just as there has been progress in scientifically detecting foreign contaminants in the air and water, the public clamors for protection... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
term's end. A family needed to amass a 50 percent down payment; few Americans could. So homeownership was neither a plausible individual aspiration nor a policy prescription. The word home had no investment connotations. The ultrarich... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
to illegally hack into the phones of select individuals. That these hackers seem not to be News of the World employees illustrates the Russian nesting doll model, which contains the seeds of moral hazard, since it allows for the View Details
- 12 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions
variables that might plausibly impact the proposal or enactment of legislation. Here’s what they found: Of the roughly 30,000 annual gun deaths in the United States, roughly 56 percent are suicides, 40 percent are homicides, and 4 percent... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
governance and large firms, both inside and outside academia, would say that it's plausible that there are at least a few firms in the S&P 1500 where shareholders might have some useful ideas, Becker says. "This is not to say... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
cannot only rely on immediate, short term returns," Henderson writes in the paper. "Instead it rests on a sophisticated understanding of the risks entailed in doing nothing and on the opportunities inherent in moving early to prepare for a range of View Details
- 21 Mar 2012
- Op-Ed
Finding the Right Jeremy Lin Storyline
Protestant faith makes him seem less "other" to a non-Asian-American audience than his race, especially in the context of current public discourse about politicians who have Muslim names or Mormon faith? There are two plausible... View Details
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a substantial height tax: a tall person earning $50,000 should pay $4,500 more in tax than a short... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
paper, we examine the impact of the AIDS epidemic on African nations through 2002 using the male circumcision rate to identify plausibly exogenous variation in HIV prevalence. Medical researchers have found significant evidence that male... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
Is there a method to their madness, investing in what has been widely characterized as a dying business? Of course there are plausible explanations for their purchases that have nothing to do with economics. Their motives might include... View Details
- 23 Feb 2016
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February 23, 2016
measure. The possibility of value incommensurability is thought to raise deep questions about practical reason and rational choice as well as related questions concerning topics as diverse as akrasia, moral dilemmas, the plausibility of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy
Book Excerpt A Social Strategy: How We Profit From Social Media Mikolaj Jan Piskorski Read An Excerpt "LinkedIn alleviates the offline normative restriction by giving us plausible deniability," Piskorski says. Even though the boss might... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
display a lot of information about their careers, which makes them available to headhunters and other employers as passive candidates. But they also establish relationships with others to stay in touch with peers and to make new contacts. This network allows them to... View Details
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
problem is that these managers don't know what metrics to measure or how to interpret the results. They may collect all manner of plausible marketing-performance metrics, from customer satisfaction to retention, but if these can't be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
impeding competition among search engines. Looking beyond the proposed Google-Yahoo transaction, I urge the Committee to examine the "may not cop[y]" provision in Google's AdWords API Terms & Conditions. This provision lacks any View Details
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
the weapon, if the only intention for making the purchase was to do harm within a certain period of time. “The most plausible explanation as to why waiting periods work is this: People have visceral states, such as anger or suicidal... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
though by a substantial amount, and the large effect of imposing a deadline after which the same difference is added back. “A plausible explanation for the small price effect is that infringers perceive the agency as being less serious... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
appointment gap between male and female CEOs and 13 percent of the pay gap. “We threw in everything we possibly could to kill the gap,” Keloharju says. “We had an extremely large set of plausible variables. And we were not able to explain... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
commitment to recurring donations. An online experiment reveals that the 75% contingent match drives commitment to recurring donations because it simultaneously provides social proof yet offers a low enough target that it remains View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne