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  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

economic activity at the local level. However, these statistics typically appear only after multi-year lags, and the public-facing versions are aggregated to the county or ZIP code level. In contrast, crowdsourced data from online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

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 prevalence, technological impact, and economic impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

We implement a variety of machine learning methods to forecast daily sales. We find that using social media information results in statistically significant improvements in the out-of-sample accuracy of the forecasts, with relative... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

reduce risk, though the effectiveness depends upon the role of capital structure in volatility. To address this question, we build a statistical model of equity volatility that accounts for leverage. Our approach blends Merton’s insights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

in-depth information on how the company serves content owners, users, and advertisers. Describes the online video space in considerable detail, also covering economic and viewership statistics that enable a rich discussion of viable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences Author:Lakshmi Iyer Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

FDI in China, and the expanding amount of economic research exploring these developments, a number of misconceptions distort the popular understanding of U.S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct four common misunderstandings by providing a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

regulation and an overview of how those changes will affect almost everyone. Publisher's link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118758714.html August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics Savings in Transnational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

pre-HRRP readmission rates across samples, we found that declines for targeted conditions at general acute care hospitals were statistically indistinguishable from declines in two control samples. Either the HRRP had no effect on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

of corporations. The sixth section of the chapter summarizes accounts that aim to specify standards for MNCs without having to take a position on the purpose of the corporation or the moral agency of corporations. August 2013 Review of Economics and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

2007): 54-60 Abstract The article discusses what the author sees as a misperception that globalization has made national boundaries nearly obsolete. Statistics are cited that over 90 percent of phone calls, Internet traffic, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

$how Me the Money

owns all of the parties involved in the transaction, it is actually making a $500 profit on each sale.” Sources of statistics cited in this article Page 31 “ $40 billion annually” (Transparency International press release Sept. 23, 2009)... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

Performance Indicators (HPIs) they collect. They will try to demonstrate that their buildings are safer than someone else’s space, especially as landlords compete for office tenants. We see this already in posted statistics like... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

survey of randomly selected urban and rural colleges and document statistically significant differences in employment opportunities for rural and urban graduates. Our survey results also indicate that not every firm follows the policy of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

transmit knowledge for a lot of reasons, both in the types of knowledge and the types of ways that they try to do it, and also the degree to which the entrepreneurs have receptors for it. Brian DeLacey: One statistic that still sticks out... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

brought positive, statistically significant change to every cohort. In another case, the Friendship Public Charter School, a group of four traditional public schools and six public charter schools in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

countries. I find that price levels are identical about 72% of the time. Price changes are not synchronized but have similar frequencies and average sizes. These results have implications for national statistical offices, researchers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

across provinces in the speed of implementation of the reform to identify the impact of the law. We find that the additional land rights led to statistically significant increases in the share of total area devoted to long-term crops and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

significantly outperform those that mix trial activity with the provision of traditional patient care. Second, we find evidence that focus at the divisional level and firm level are substitutes. That is, organizations characterized by divisional focus alone achieve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne