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- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
demand for control over remittances in the baseline survey. We also find positive spillovers of our savings intervention in the form of increased savings at other banks (specifically, banks in the U.S.). We interpret the effects we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
pay to the plan. We document an oppositional reaction: the presence of peer information decreased the savings of nonparticipants who were ineligible for 401(k) automatic enrollment, and higher observed peer savings rates also decreased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
overlook our most powerful tool for effecting change: our own thoughts. Through a variety of exercises called Think Keys, Zaltman guides the reader through the mind’s most important unconscious and conscious dynamics. Zaltman has used... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
high, and advice changes practices, increasing yields in cumin (28%) and cotton (8.6% for a subgroup receiving reminders). Information spreads, as non-treated farmers with more treated peers change practices... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
of specialized routines. Perturbation creates opportunities for organizations to invoke exploratory, general-purpose problem-solving routines. In mature organizations, exogenous perturbations become increasingly scarce to the point that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
PublicationsUnconscious Thought Works Bottom-up and Conscious Thought Works Top-down When Forming an Impression Authors:Maarten W. Bos and Ap Dijksterhuis Publication:Social Cognition 29, no. 6 (2011) Abstract We tested and found supportive evidence View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 1
of capital within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
compatibility can thus increase asymmetry between the platform owners’ profit foci and, given a sufficiently large difference in the standalone utilities, yields greater profits for both platform owners. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
transformed nearly every major industry for the past quarter century." Think of software platforms as ring leaders of ecosystems in which a few or many companies can participate to reach users. These... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016
Rumie's software and services from the physical tablets to achieve greater reach and scale. In October 2015, Rumie opened the LearnCloud, its proprietary online content curation portal for NGOs, to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14
information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of pairwise-industry agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
Are the world's poor, who individually have less than $5 a day in disposable income, a viable market for new goods and services? Consider the fact that there are four billion people around the globe that fit this description and you have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 30
video ads. In a controlled experiment, joy and surprise were assessed through automated facial expression detection for a sample of ads. Concentration of attention was assessed through eye tracking and retention of viewers by recording... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
information asymmetry that exists. We provide evidence, however, that participants are much more likely to pursue a pooling outcome when such an outcome is available. This result is important for research and practice because pooling and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010
literature on willpower. Understanding how willpower develops can shed important light on time-inconsistent economic decision making, a topic that has received substantial attention over recent decades. In particular, we argue that measures of willpower View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017
a simple model of populism as the rejection of “disloyal” leaders. We show that adding the assumption that people are worse off when they experience low income as a result of leader betrayal (than when it is the result of bad luck) to a simple voter choice model View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007
Working PapersDesigning a Two-Sided Platform: When to Increase Search Costs? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We propose a model for analyzing an intermediary's incentives to increase the search costs incurred by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
increases US investors' equity FPI holdings by 21%, controlling for effects on FDI. This suggests that the residual tax on foreign multinational firm earnings biases capital flows to low corporate tax countries toward FPI. A one standard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace