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  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

New Deal. Still, it was an important stepping-stone from the previous generation who did not fathom a role for government in modifying the business cycle at all. Q: What effect did the Great Depression have on the prediction business? A:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

serves as a vehicle to explore the devastating economic and political impact of the Great Depression on the countries of the South, such as Chile, which had specialized in primary commodities, and on mining and financial capitalists such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

doctor recommendations, tests, or prescriptions." This is illustrated by the fact that some of the most common conditions such as high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression addressed by DTCA are often under-diagnosed or under-treated... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

independent predictor of mental and physical health-such as decreased depression and doctor's visits-over and above mean levels of positive and negative emotion. These results remained robust after controlling for gender, age, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

the Great Depression had a significant negative impact on the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However, because a sufficient number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

because the organization is depressed and skeptical because previously promised changes have not come to fruition. And there are problems under the surface that haven't even been discussed. Leaders have to combine "bold strokes"... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

outlays, as they depress the premium of the second-lowest-price silver plan, to which subsidy amounts are linked. Holding all else constant, we estimate that federal subsidies would have been 10.8% higher in 2014 had Marketplaces required... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

(July-August 2009) Abstract What if the current recession turns out to be like the Great Depression of 1929-1933? Four years from now, the United States might find itself with a still-shrinking economy, half as many banks as in 2009, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

hiring, and promoting minority workers, and he hopes the research will spur them to re-evaluate ways of reducing segregation. “These research findings are depressing because we value integration as a social goal,” Koning says. “Americans... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

level of economic inequality within Western societies is at its highest in almost a century; in the U.S., for example, inequality is at its highest peak since before the Great Depression (3–5). Furthermore, the incomes of the top 1% in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

government bond rates used to discount projected future costs had fallen to record lows, and RWE as well as its competitors were struggling with depressed electricity prices. Would RWE's provisions be adequate to cover the future costs?... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

the past to lower risk and instill consumer confidence. "From the founding of the republic until 1933, the United States experienced banking panics roughly every fifteen to twenty years," explains Moss. When the Great Depression struck,... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

leverage is to sell assets. If asset sales occur at depressed prices, then one bank's sales may impact other banks with common exposures, resulting in contagion. We propose a simple framework that accounts for how this effect adds up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

encompassed other important inflection points. The end of the Civil War was one. The onset of the Great Depression was another. So, too, was the close of World War II. In each of these instances, American business has played a central... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

activity and new venture financing is an age old question. Public promotion efforts are controversial, and in most cases they tend to fail. In the United States, debate about the role of government in these areas can be traced back to at least the Great View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

property, the war also brought to an end the deepest Depression in history. Moreover, the decades after the war witnessed more rapid economic growth than the world had ever seen, not least in the vanquished countries. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

European market and, indeed, in the world economy. Over the first half of the twentieth century, however, the bank faced a series of national crises: defeat in WWI (1914-1918), revolution in 1919, hyperinflation in 1923, economic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

especially since entering the WTO in 2001, China's economy grew at rates around 10% annually by attracting FDI and promoting exports. After the financial crisis that began in 2008 and depressed demand in the United States and Europe,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

  Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters By: Friedman, Walter A. Abstract—The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

estate development during his playing career, and now, as a retired player, is trying to pursue the development of a 10-unit rental apartment building in a depressed area of Philadelphia, his hometown. The case presents the process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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