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  • May 1979 (Revised August 2013)
  • Background Note

Financial Analysis of Real Property Investments

By: William J. Poorvu
Develops a conceptual framework for financial analysis of real estate investments, taking into consideration the necessity for baseline data, project trends, and forecast discontinuities. View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Return; Trends; Real Estate Industry; Financial Services Industry
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Investor Sentiment in the Stock Market

By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
We examine how investor sentiment affects the cross-section of stock returns. Theory predicts that a broad wave of sentiment will disproportionately affect stocks whose valuations are highly subjective and are difficult to arbitrage. We test this prediction by... View Details
Keywords: Financial Markets; Stocks; Investment Return; Valuation; Forecasting and Prediction; Volatility; Price; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavioral Finance
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  • November 2024
  • Article

Perceptions About Monetary Policy

By: Michael D. Bauer, Carolin Pflueger and Adi Sunderam
We estimate perceptions about the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy rule from panel data on professional forecasts of interest rates and macroeconomic conditions. The perceived dependence of the federal funds rate on economic conditions varies substantially over time,... View Details
Keywords: Monetary Policy; Policy; Interest Rates; Perception; Economy; Forecasting and Prediction
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    Complicated Firms

    We exploit a novel setting in which the same piece of information affects two sets of firms: one set of firms requires straightforward processing to update prices, while the other set requires more complicated analyses to incorporate the same piece of information into... View Details
    • September 2020
    • Article

    Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes:: An Original Survey on Opposition to Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Middle East

    By: Matt Buehler, Kristin Fabbe and Kyung Joon Han
    Why do native citizens of the Middle East and North Africa express greater opposition to certain types of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons? Why, particularly, do they express greater opposition to sub-Saharan African migrants? This article investigates these... View Details
    Keywords: Postmaterialism; Immigration; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias; Surveys; Africa; Middle East
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    • 02 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

    model where firms choose which suppliers to integrate and whether to delegate decisions to integrated suppliers or keep them centralized. We test the predictions of this model using a novel dataset that... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Aug 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

    insufficient room to collaborate. Zhu and his collaborators predict that as digitization increasingly de-couples hardware and software in many industries, corporate frenemies... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology
    • 11 Oct 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER

    • 17 Mar 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

    When working professionals were shifting to home offices a year ago as COVID-19 was spreading, comedians and pundits predicted that people would no longer need bras and pants... View Details
    Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail
    • 28 Oct 2024
    • Op-Ed

    Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

    John Judis and Ruy Teixeira heralded a new age of US politics in their 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority. The book predicted that the growing Latino population, coupled with a clear Democratic lead... View Details
    Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro
    • 06 Jun 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

    survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Jun 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Innovation Communication in Multicultural Networks: Deficits in Inter-cultural Capability and Affect-based Trust as Barriers to New Idea Sharing in Inter-Cultural Relationships

    Keywords: by Roy Y.J. Chua & Michael W. Morris

      The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion

      Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through... View Details
      • 14 Mar 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

      unionization In setting out to explain the differences in unionization rates by location, the researchers noticed that state-to-state union levels differed before and after the 1930s. Whether a state had a percentage of unionized... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • Research Summary

      A Consistent Weighted Ranking Scheme with an Application to NCAA College Football Rankings (with Chaim Fershtman and Neil Gandal)

      The NCAA college football ratings, in which the so-called national champion is determined, has been plagued by controversies the last few years. The difficulty arises because there is a need to make a complete ranking of teams even though each team has a different... View Details
      • 28 May 2020
      • News

      Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes: An Original Survey on Opposition to Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Middle East

      • 29 Jun 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

      entrenched interests are going to resist and regulators are too slow to catch up,” she says. But Kanter calls financial results a “lagging indicator” of a company’s health. “They tell you what you’ve just done. They don’t View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation
      • 27 Feb 2018
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

      percent increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying. Download... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • October 2018
      • Article

      The Operational Value of Social Media Information

      By: Ruomeng Cui, Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno and Dennis J. Zhang
      While the value of using social media information has been established in multiple business contexts, the field of operations and supply chain management have not yet explored the possibilities it offers in improving firms' operational decisions. This study attempts to... View Details
      Keywords: Machine Learning; Information; Sales; Forecasting and Prediction; Social Media
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      • 07 Oct 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

      Robert Hargraves, an energy policy instructor at Dartmouth College, which forecasts a hypothetical but startling scenario for the world's electricity consumption. [Click the image to see the slide.]"Even if we were capable of cutting US... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities