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- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
payload weight carrying a transmitter powerful enough to send signals to Earth independently. A program manager must therefore make calls on decisions that affect the overall system performance. The final area that requires coordination at the program level is related... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Abstract—Emissions regulation is a policy mechanism intended to address the threat of climate change. However, the stringency of emissions regulation varies across regions, raising concerns over carbon leakage—an outcome where stringent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
There is a temptation to explain the wide variety of approaches as a characteristic of the early stage of development in which the genre resides. Based on the evidence of three case studies, this paper explores the mechanisms that guide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
findings suggest that, after threat, misrepresenting one’s performance can function as a mechanism that helps to restore positive self-evaluations about one’s capabilities. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
depose the longstanding Republican majority in the state legislature. Responding to citizen anger, as well as perennial calls for more banking capital, the Whigs drafted a novel "free banking" bill, which would override the established bank chartering View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
over time provided technical and symbolic resources needed to feed the resilience of the industry. Such exchanges were facilitated through an eventual recognition of shared superordinate values, as well as mechanisms of tradition... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
explore the mechanisms underlying the relationship between managerial discretion and future performance. Strict ID Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008–2016 By: Cantoni, Enrico, and Vincent Pons Abstract—... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
conventional logic of diminishing marginal social welfare. Moreover, these two views are linked: respondents who more strongly resist equalization are more likely to prefer the classical benefit-based principle. Though the Amazon View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
variables approach. The negative effect is strongest in poor countries, suggesting that high profits stymie economic development rather than enable it. Consistent with the rent-seeking mechanism of the model, we find that high rents are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
justify the actions of this individual and to behave more selfishly and less ethically themselves. We also establish the mechanism explaining this effect: when participants felt psychologically close to someone who had behaved selfishly,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
had been discovered that the common combination of Plavix and Prilosec, an over-the-counter drug, could adversely affect patients. Finally, Plavix faced new competition from two new drugs with different mechanisms of action. This case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
some of our main values and make choices about society. Some of the biggest trade-offs we make are made when deciding tax policy. One of the things I've been disappointed about with the talk around this particular reform is that there hasn't been much discussion of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
unregulated regions and increase global emissions in the process. Carbon tariffs have emerged as a possible mechanism to address these concerns by imposing carbon costs on imports at the regulated region's border. I show that, when firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
examine the psychological mechanism explaining the relationship between bad weather and increased productivity. Our findings support our proposed model and suggest that worker productivity is higher on bad rather than good weather days.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel