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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

  • 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
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Construction; Real Estate
  • 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
Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 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
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities
  • 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
  • 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
  • 24 Oct 2006
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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
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing
  • 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
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Publishing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing
  • 04 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

three presidents and two prime ministers: Jefferson, whom he called "the hardest possible case," Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain, comparing their approaches to decision-making with people who View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 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
  • 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

flows between markets and prices of risk become more closely aligned. While prices in the directly impacted market initially overreact to the supply shock, we show that prices in related asset classes underreact under plausible... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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