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  • 23 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

eligible for a discount on the purchase price conditional on their achieving the sales targets set by the franchisor. We show that car dealers (franchisees) who exclusively deal in cars of the brand offered by the franchisor receive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

not just in (what is now) the Czech Republic, but also in any country that lacks strong institutions and investor protections. As HBS professor Mihir A. Desai and the Monitor Group's Alberto Moel explain in the Review of Finance, in their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

model that makes sense for retail operators without subsidy. Using a franchising model that relies on seasoned local entrepreneurs, communication technology that monitors flows and quality, payment technology that takes cash out of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

Abstract—This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

the product has all features. The important implication is that price alone cannot serve as a signal of quality in this setting. In contrast, a "buyer-initiated information revelation" format, where customers decide which... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

externality and technology diffusion play a particularly important role in multinationals' offshore agglomeration. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1524857 Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? Evidence from Trade Policy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2020
  • In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

retailers’ annual sales, so it is a critical time to get retail execution right. Dynamic pricing strategies must be carefully executed to maximize margins while driving volume. Inventory turns must be carefully View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail
  • 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
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

adverse selection and moral hazard, which implies that the social benefits of bank monitoring must for incentive reasons be shared between depositors and banks. Consequently, socially too few deposits are made in equilibrium. Deposit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

traditional banks have a stable source of funding, while shadow banks are subject to runs and fire-sale losses. In equilibrium, traditional banks have a comparative advantage at holding fixed-income assets that have only modest fundamental risk but are illiquid and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Abstract We study sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

solutions in the form of software and hardware platforms, Intel Corporation, a leading semiconductor manufacturer in the United States, introduces a pilot project in India for testing a new platform that allows monitoring and demand... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

available at positive prices. We characterize the size of the p2p network as a function of the firm's pricing strategy and show that the firm may be better off setting high prices, allowing the network to survive, and acknowledging that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

selling the client firm's stock. This overweighting is not explained by superior information. We quantify a potentially large benefit to the 401(k) sponsor firm of having its price propped up by its trustee fund's more severe... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

supermarket for "dolphin-safe" tuna, so Star-Kist decided to fish in safer waters and raised prices accordingly. In reality, even the most well-meaning customers didn't want to shell out more money for a can of tuna even if it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007

are easily observable in process but is not related to outcomes that are difficult to monitor in process. In comparison, a member's role experience is positively related to both types of outcomes. Our results offer an approach for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

Dalida, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—Equity overvaluation is thought to create the potential for managerial misbehavior, while monitoring and corporate governance curb misbehavior. We combine these two insights from the literatures... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

by inventory shrinkage and cash shortage. Using two store-level datasets from the convenience store industry, we find that relative wages are negatively associated with employee theft after we control for each store's employee characteristics, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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