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  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures. Methods: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database, we identified patients who underwent isolated CABG (n=3726), AVR (n=1626), MV repair (n=731), MVR (n=324), and MVR+AVR (n=184)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

other distortions measured in the literature. The second uncertain policy we consider concerns marginal tax rates. We obtain similar results once we adjust for the impact of tax rates on income. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

different types of seats are filled) on distributional objectives is comparable to the effect of adjusting reserve sizes. Either lowering the precedence order positions of reserve seats at a school or increasing the number of reserve... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Mar 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

returns? Or must we suffer more severe adjustments that will ultimately reduce the pie for managers, employees, customers, and investors alike? What do you think? Original Article The current highly charged atmosphere of allegedly greedy... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 23 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

actions from around the globe. They then adjusted those actions for each country or region to make them comparable in categories such as the total percent of gross domestic product, a common measure of an economy’s size. By the end of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 07 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

example, might be as likely to marry a natural-born citizen as a fellow expat. Other ethnic groups, such as Yemenis, Punjabis, and Bangladeshis, however, have more than an 80 percent chance of marrying within their own groups. For Eritreans, the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

adjusts the policy rate slowly in response to changes in its privately observed target. Such gradualism reflects an attempt to not spook the bond market. However, this effort ends up being thwarted in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Abstract We analyze the optimal strategy of a high-quality incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15

we find significant price differences between institutional investors' tranches and banks' tranches on the same loans, even though they share the same underlying fundamentals. Increasing demand pressure causes the interest rate on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

establishments, and they acquire and divest establishments more rapidly. When we consider these additional adjustment margins, net relative job losses at target firms are less than 1% of initial employment. In contrast, the sum of gross... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

  PublicationsDid Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings? Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?

In the marketplace, Brand Trump is authentic. It stands for aspiration and success, but more the ostentatious and flashy success that appeals to the newly wealthy, the entrepreneur, the outsider. For these consumers, brand Trump clearly delivers; Trump hotels, and... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

watching television can deliver higher than expected audiences at lower cost-per-thousand impressions. Brands with deep pockets may be able to negotiate favorable advertising rates and lock them in for several years. If you have to cut... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

higher overall ratings than the "branch-wed" non-ATM customers did. However, the reverse was true when videoconferencing was added. It appeared that heavy ATM users actually disliked interacting with humans! Lesson 5: Build... View Details
Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

flows equal the forecasted cash flows plus an omitted downside. When the omitted downside is temporary, the adjustment is to deflate the forecasts and to set the discount rate equal to the cost of capital.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

we call entrepreneurial beacons. We argue that the actions or outcomes of salient organizations attract and motivate entrepreneurs, thus increasing the rate of foundings. To test this logic, we examine the impact of the Yale University... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2008
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Rethinking Retirement Planning

claim." When the global stock market and interest rates began to decline in 2000, many corporations faced a double whammy when returns on pension assets were well below expectations and pension liabilities rose by much more than... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

after misconduct. The labor market partially undoes firm-level discipline by rehiring such advisers. Firms that hire these advisers also have higher rates of prior misconduct themselves, suggesting "matching on misconduct." These firms... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

mid-August, the biggest currency adjustment in two decades. But continued trading volatility climaxed on Aug. 23 in what many have called China’s “Black Monday.” Shanghai stocks dropped by 8.5 percent overnight, their steepest single-day... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

outpaced the growth of the economy, and this disconnect increases as the difference between the corporate income tax rate of the U.S. and the other OECD countries increases. The underlying mechanism is fewer corporate profits being... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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