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  • February 2014 (Revised October 2019)
  • Case

Should Corporate Profits Be Taxed? (A)

By: Matthew Weinzierl, Katrina Flanagan and Michael Cianellli
Taxing corporations is popular, but why? Corporations do not bear the burden of taxes, people do, and the incidence of the corporate income tax burden is likely to be far different from what many of its supporters assume.
Instructors may also obtain a Teaching... View Details
Keywords: Economic Versus Statutory Incidence; Basics Of Corporate Taxation; Business Ventures; Taxation; Profit
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  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

negative relation between this measure and both future stock returns and future profitability. The economic and statistical significance of our results is stronger than in previous research focusing on individual categories of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

ethicality of the perpetrator of an unethical action. Our studies show that people judge behavior as more unethical when (1) identifiable versus unidentifiable victims are involved and (2) the behavior leads to a negative rather than a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

behalf of families and (b) bank forbearance policies regarding overdrawn customers. We focus on five factors to explain the incidence of involuntary closures: personal traits, community traits, economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

relative incidence of crises is associated with slower economic growth in both the medium- and long-term. See Carmen’s other research work here . Related Themes: Global Crisis & Debt Data, Stabilization... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

the facts as they were known a week after the incident occurred and raises a wide range of questions regarding consumer behavior, corporate responsibility, and competitive reaction. I recall only two cases that we spent more than one... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 17 May 2016
  • First Look

May 17, 2016

class cabin—is associated with more frequent air rage incidents in economy class. Situational inequality—boarding from the front (requiring walking through the first class cabin) versus the middle of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

bonds, a standard measurement used by investment firms. He then matched the data against instances of wrongdoing covering a six-year period. The more the portfolio balance tipped toward stocks, the greater the chance of trouble. Scandal-marred politicians on average... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 18 Jun 2007
  • Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

examining the role of stock options in executive compensation; the incidence of stock option abuses; how stock option compensation is reported to stockholders under generally accepted accounting principles View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
  • 16 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 16, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

report data from an experiment where subjects in a Willpower Treatment are asked to resist the temptation to join others in watching a humorous video for 10 minutes. In relation to a baseline treatment that does not require willpower, we show that resisting this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

Editor's note: When did America's declining global competitiveness begin? One starting spot might be 2008, the last year the country topped the World Economic Forum's list of most globally competitive nations. Four years later, the US has... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

architecture. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55689 2019 Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Foundations and Applications 2 Behavioral Economics and Health-Care Markets By: Chandra, Amitabh, Benjamin Handel,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Riding It Out

have a strong team and had already developed a recall procedure in the event that something like the melamine incident happened,” says Gisholt. “It’s one of those instances that’s challenging as a parent and as an entrepreneur — you don’t... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

development. Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment Authors:Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel