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- 17 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 17, 2007
Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
the waiting time to enter the ED increased by 26 minutes. We do not find any indications of improved performance on clinical metrics, with no statistical change in the number of admissions to the hospital or readmissions to the ED within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
water purification solution. We find that higher prices screen out those who use the product less. By contrast, we find no consistent evidence of sunk-cost effects. Welfare Payments and Crime Author:C. Fritz Foley Publication:The Review of Economics and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
allow manufacturers to commercialize innovations with financial value. Yet scholars have recently shown that entrepreneurial activity by users is more widespread than previously believed. We present data and statistics documenting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
wasn’t true—there were land mines, left over from years of conflict. Those had to be cleared before cell phone towers and the maintenance roads leading to them could be built. Available maps and government statistics were often... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
strength of the country, is increasingly failing to provide stable policy decisions addressing the issues Sweden is facing. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53584 October 2017 Review of Economics and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
problem, and writing a detailed specification. The Jeopardy! problem is different—it requires a probabilistic approach where there is no closed-form solution. Instead statistical patterns in the data are important, and there is no obvious... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
specification. The Jeopardy! problem is different-it requires a probabilistic approach where there is no closed form solution. Instead, statistical patterns in the data are important, and there is no obvious mapping to the way queries are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1638429 Accounting Scholarship That Advances Professional Knowledge and Practice Author:Robert S. Kaplan Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
societies—what might be termed leadership with a big "L?" Or does it mean something fine grained and local—leadership with a small "l"? Taxes, Dividends and International Portfolio Choice Authors:Mihir Desai and D. Dharmapala Publication:The Review... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
that decays over time, similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
new empirical finding that confirms this model's central policy prediction across developed countries and the U.S. In countries and states with more heterogeneous tastes for consumption relative to leisure, redistribution is statistically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
economic trends a central economic activity and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity at the local level. However,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer applicant quality from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
science. It’s the same tools as social science—the experiment, treatment, control, human subjects, statistical inference, using the scientific method. Outside of academia, the happiness field has become fairly polarized. You have the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
algorithm it generates to predict income levels based on images for which data is unavailable. When the researchers crunched those numbers, they determined that the image analysis could give a much more accurate prediction for income than other measures. In View Details
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
economists found an elevated level of supervisory stringency during the most recent recession, based on an analysis of bank supervisory ratings. This research concluded that an increase in the level of stringency can have a statistically... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
Three. Should it focus its business on a single sector such as structured products or attack multiple sectors? How could enough skilled analysts be recruited quickly? How would the firm acquire status as a Nationally Recognized View Details