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  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

connected and on task throughout the day. Here, the agenda is less structured. Most villagers survive on sales of handmade rugs and subsistence farming. But there’s also a tension in the village between a communal way of life and external pressures. With an View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

improve the lives of the estimated two billion people who live on less than $2 a day by facilitating more secure, accessible, and reliable ways to store and transfer money than are currently available. The development of this ecosystem... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

investments. Using both calendar-time portfolio stock return regressions and firm-level panel regressions we find that firms with good ratings on material sustainability issues significantly outperform firms with poor ratings on these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

increased five-fold between 1997 and 2007. We construct and analyze a panel of Mexican bank financial data covering this period and find no evidence that foreign entry increases the availability of credit. We also find that switching from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

outward shift in the supply of credit. First, a comparison between counties in the top and bottom deciles of presence of national banks in states with anti-predatory laws suggests that the preemption regulation resulted in an 11% increase in annual lending in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

growth, voting rules, and media consumption, vs. individual factors, such as race and education. We use individual-level panel data covering the vast majority of the U.S. voting-age population from 2008 to 2014 and track changes in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

not be confined to the pursuit of strong institutions: firms may also seek weak institutions to mitigate hazards. Using panel data from the global smartphone industry and recent patent wars among key industry rivals, we examine how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

cost of external finance shape both the probability of entering entrepreneurship and the characteristics of those who become entrepreneurs. As expected, differences-in-differences estimates show that the entry rates for individuals who... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the level of geographic aggregation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

show that knowledge spillover shifts both distributions rightward while selection and reallocation raise the left truncation of the distributions and shift revenue leftward. Using a rich firm-level panel dataset that spans 60 countries,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

Using a rich cross-country firm panel dataset, we find significant evidence of both mechanisms and effects of competition in product, technology, and labor space. However, selection and market reallocation account for the majority of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. Using matching methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find that government procurement rules produce spillover effects that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/rgreenwood/bgjs9.pdf The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying By: Kerr, William R., William F. Lincoln, and Prachi Mishra Abstract—We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Up by the Roots

other, similar programs, like the Barclays Accelerator and Startupbootcamp FinTech New York. The model has an annual cycle, beginning with a selection panel (made up of leading financial institutions) that chooses a small cohort of... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

using a precisely constructed matched sample, we estimate the effect of a scientist becoming a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator (HHMI) on citations to articles the scientist published before the prize was awarded. We do find evidence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

other banks with common exposures. We show how this contagion effect adds up across the banking sector and how it can be estimated empirically using balance sheet data. We compute bank exposures to system-wide deleveraging, as well as the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

dispute and a trend analysis of over 400 total WTO disputes, I find that the WTO dispute settlement process is helping to legitimize the institution of free trade through its public display of rational authority and neutral expertise. At the same time, dispute View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

testing and social distancing, plus the ongoing risks and progression of the hotspots,” says Streetman. Users can drill into case and fatality trajectories, track local outbreaks, and estimate the COVID-19 virus transmission in local... View Details