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  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions. Politicians use frequent reassignments (transfers) across posts of varying importance to control bureaucrats. High-skilled bureaucrats face less frequent political transfers and lower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/PIMAp.pdf August 2013 American Economic Journal: Microeconomics Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract—We consider market rules for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

liquidating funds: at the beginning of the fire sale, they sell their holdings in the liquidated stocks, to then cover their positions once asset prices start recovering. The predatory trades generate at least 50 basis points over ten... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

Paid transfers of IP addresses would better allocate resources to those who need them most, but unrestricted transfers might threaten the Internet's routing system. I suggest policies to facilitate an IP... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

style, and thus set prices that limit market penetration. The winning strategy diverges from this approach in almost every respect. When innovators develop products that people want to pull into their lives, they create markets that serve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

farm refers to a complex of rights and duties secured by contract in which a sovereign transferred the temporary exploitation of a holding for rent in advance. It was one of four tenurial complexes under which entitlements fell, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

ability of a firm to transfer its capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

Mumbai, and an ongoing investigation of the transfer of land from agricultural to industrial use in China. Pirates On The Horizon There are two primary types of IP theft for copyright industries, which include movies, music, books, and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

from NBER Working Paper No. 6011, April 1997, Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 98-024, 1997) Abstract We model the equilibrium price and quantity of risk transfer between firms and financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

Falato, Antonio, and David Scharfstein Abstract—We present evidence that pressure to maximize short-term stock prices and earnings leads banks to increase risk. We start by showing that banks increase risk when they transition from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

creating opportunities for norm reinforcement. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52457 Strategy-Proofness of Worker-Optimal Matching with Continuously Transferable Utility By: Jagadeesan, Ravi, Scott Duke... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2012
  • Op-Ed

Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison

try, a bank might relent. A short sale will put the house on the market, opening it to another buyer, letting the seller move. Lenders could proactively set prices for short sales. “Lenders may be reluctant to morph into landlords, but... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016

borrowers likely involve fewer monitoring tools and weaker control rights. We evaluate these explanations of cov-lite contract provisions in a large sample of U.S. loans for the 2001–2014 period. Consistent with creditor-driven explanations for cov-lite issuance, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

proximity to headquarters and corporate siblings are associated with superior performance trends following information disclosure. We also find that regional density moderates effect of establishment size on performance improvement. We find no evidence that capability... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

experiments to test theoretical predictions of why adoption may be low. Insurance purchase is sensitive to price, with an estimated extensive price elasticity of demand between -0.66 and -0.88. Credit constraints, identified through the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

went into a downward spiral as nitrate prices collapsed. It became highly inward looking and had one of the slowest rates of growth in Latin America for decades. Argentina’s fall from grace was less immediate, but more prolonged. Populist... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

related to the repeal of these NAS disclosures in 1982 are associated with a small positive stock price reaction suggesting no adverse economic consequences of withdrawing NAS disclosures. Further, following the repeal of disclosure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

speed of travel, making our apparent physical reality, in Einstein's words, "merely an illusion." Like time and distance, standard fiscal measures, including deficits, taxes, and transfer payments, depend on one's reference... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

long-run competitive advantage.— Forest L. Reinhardt One method managers try is to differentiate their products, environmentally speaking, and transfer the additional costs to customers. Star-Kist Foods, a Heinz company, tried this with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

misvaluation for a firm's borrowing and investment decisions. Using an ex-post measure of the accuracy of credit ratings to capture debt market misvaluation, we find evidence that firms take advantage of inaccuracies by issuing more debt and increasing leverage. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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