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  • 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
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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
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

and friend for over 30 years. The bulk of this article develops an account of his intellectual trajectory from game theory to statistical decision theory to decision analysis and to negotiation analysis. It suggests how these... View Details
Keywords: 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
  • 02 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

get people browsing through the stores. Despite what Apple says, the statistics suggest that there is no significant conversion of non-Macintosh users to Macintosh users on the basis of the stores. So, if you think of it as an investment... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

choice thus leads subjects to violate the weak axiom of revealed preference (WARP). Friend or Foe? Cooperation and Learning in High-Stakes Games Authors:FFelix Oberholzer-Gee, Joel Waldfogel, and Matthew White Publication:Review of Economics and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

summaries of past environmental performance. In addition, firms with more KLD concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory compliance violations in later years. KLD environmental strengths, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

explains aspects of the scientific method, including experimental design, verification, uncertainty, and statistics and also includes sections on planning research, presenting one’s findings in writing, ethics, and the responsibilities of... View Details
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markets? A: Yes, as a comparison: the most recent statistics have AUM (assets under management) of the global hedge fund industry at roughly 4.5 trillion dollars. Family Offices, by comparison, have AUM of 3.1 trillion dollars – over 2/3... View Details