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- 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008
prescriptive suggestions for candidates to approach job negotiations as a two-level game and to minimize disadvantageous effects of gender on job negotiation outcomes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-095.pdf Optimal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008
their optimal strategy faster than the standard second price auction mechanism. Contrary to earlier results within computer science using simulated reinforcement learning agents, we find that both in settings where subjects are given... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
that each choice is made based on one of several rules. The rules include rational choice, level-1 reasoning, an attempt to maximize joint payoff, and an attempt to increase fairness. The probability of using the different View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
extractive industries. In the U.S., for example, fewer than 20 percent of all jobs are in non-services. Other developed economies are approaching this. This raises several questions. For example, just what is the optimal amount of service... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
cities in the state abutted a municipality with a green procurement policy. To assess each city's intrinsic environmental pulse, they measured the proportion of the city's population that voted in favor of environmental initiatives on... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
than traditional businesses that employ their workers. And so it seemed until June, when the California Labor Commission disrupted the sharing economy when it declared that an Uber driver was an employee, not an independent contractor. Far from being a "neutral... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the optimal weighting of four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
ad auctions as a dynamic game of incomplete information, so we can study the convergence and robustness properties of various strategies. In particular, we consider best-response bidding strategies for a repeated auction on a single keyword, where in each round, each... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
Strömberg Publication:The Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
risks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2332106 Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract—We consider market rules for transferring IP addresses, numeric... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to the agglomeration of domestic firms? Using a unique worldwide plant-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
Mexican history, he found a common thread running through the country's various shifts of power: reliance on a third party to enforce the rules (such as property rights) that make it possible to do business. A Stake In The Game Porfirio... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
a host of issues related to how contracts between financial intermediaries and their customers are structured and how risks are shared between them, as well as the consequences of (unexpected) deviations from the ex-ante optimal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
this ritualistic document filled with financial information, different types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown considerably in response to the increasing onslaught of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
rubber markets during the boom years of 1870-1910 shows that the government generated 1.3% of GDP through an export tax on rubber but that it could have generated 4.7% in total, had the government set the tariff at the optimal level.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
performance, most investors have found it easier to vote "with their feet" by selling shares, rather than making formal complaints. Large shareholders, however, have stronger incentives to monitor management. The conventional... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
http://hbr.org/product/collective-genius-the-art-and-practice-of-leading-innovation/an/13296E-KND-ENG?referral=01240 August 2013 Harvard Business Law Review Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Evaluating the Impact of the Argentina Ruling By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest. China seemed without peer. Decline came fast. By 1900, China had been invaded,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 26, 2008
40%. Shareholder pressure (e.g., the voting outcome and the influence of the proponent) and the type of proposals are the main determinants of the implementation decision, while traditional governance indicators do not seem to matter.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
business loans, has witnessed dramatic growth, reaching over 150 million borrowers worldwide. Much of its success has been attributed to overcoming the challenges of information asymmetries in uncollateralized lending. Yet, very little is known about the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne