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01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative

voices. The design firm IDEO, in its brainstorming sessions, tells participants to produce, for example, 150 ideas in less than 45 minutes. The impossible time limit and quota forces them to submit whatever comes to mind, even seemingly... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

We cannot have quotas here.” LEWIS: Dean Baker said, “We’d love to have more African American students. We just aren’t doing a very good job of finding people who are interested.” Our immediate reaction was, we can solve that problem. We... View Details

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

compete for fishing quotas. The value of the fishing quota is not only determined by the volume, but also by the price for fish. BW: I’d worked on auctions. I had some of the early papers on the subject and then I had this brilliant... View Details

11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

exploit an exogenous reduction in H1B (visa) quotas and find that herbal patents filed by western firms based in the U.S. are driven by scientists of ethnic Indian and Chinese origin. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Consequences of Financial Models Anderson, James E. "Quotas as Options: Optimality and Quota License Pricing Under Uncertainty." Journal of International Economics 23, nos. 1-2 (August 1987): 21-39. Arrow, Kenneth J. "Le rôle des valeurs... View Details

06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

exogenous shock to the quota of H1B visas and from a list of entities exempted from the shock. We also find that ethnic migrant inventors are more likely to engage in reuse of their prior knowledge, whereas inventors from other ethnic... View Details

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