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      • November 2024
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      Perceptions About Monetary Policy

      By: Michael D. Bauer, Carolin Pflueger and Adi Sunderam
      We estimate perceptions about the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy rule from panel data on professional forecasts of interest rates and macroeconomic conditions. The perceived dependence of the federal funds rate on economic conditions varies substantially over time,... View Details
      Keywords: Monetary Policy; Policy; Interest Rates; Perception; Economy; Forecasting and Prediction
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      Bauer, Michael D., Carolin Pflueger, and Adi Sunderam. "Perceptions About Monetary Policy." Quarterly Journal of Economics 139, no. 4 (November 2024): 2227–2278.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Limits to Bank Deposit Market Power

      By: Juliane Begenau and Erik Stafford
      Claims about the market power of bank deposits in the banking literature are numerous and far reaching. Recently, a causal narrative has emerged in the banking literature: market power in bank deposits, measured as imperfect pass-through of short-term market rates on... View Details
      Keywords: Bank Deposits; Market Power; Net Interest Margin (NIM); Banks and Banking; Interest Rates; Risk and Uncertainty
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      Begenau, Juliane, and Erik Stafford. "Limits to Bank Deposit Market Power." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-039, November 2021.
      • March 2021
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      Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment

      By: Kris J. Ferreira and Joel Goh
      Assortment rotation—the retailing practice of changing the assortment of products offered to customers—has recently been used as a competitive advantage for both brick-and-mortar and online retailers. We focus on product categories where consumers may purchase multiple... View Details
      Keywords: Assortment Optimization; Retailing; Imperfect Information; Sales; Strategy; Consumer Behavior
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      Ferreira, Kris J., and Joel Goh. "Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment." Management Science 67, no. 3 (March 2021): 1489–1507.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Costly External Financing and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

      By: Emily Williams
      I provide new evidence that large and small banks have different external financing costs, which generates cross sectional variation in a deposits market pricing power channel of monetary policy transmission. I do so by exploiting a natural experiment using anti-trust... View Details
      Keywords: External Financing; Monetary Policy Transmission; Experiment; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates
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      Williams, Emily. "Costly External Financing and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment." Working Paper, April 2020.
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      Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History

      By: Teresa da Silva Lopes, Mark Casson and Geoffrey Jones
      This article engages in a methodological experiment by using historical evidence to challenge a common misperception about internalization theory. The theory has often been criticized for maintaining that it assumes a hierarchically organized MNE based on knowledge... View Details
      Keywords: Internalization; Multinational Strategy; Business History; Organization And Management Theory; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Governance; History; Organizations; Theory; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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      da Silva Lopes, Teresa, Mark Casson, and Geoffrey Jones. "Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History." Journal of International Business Studies 50, no. 8 (October 2019): 1338–1358.
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      Integrated Strategy: Residual Market and Exchange Imperfections as the Foundation of Sustainable Competitive Advantage

      By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis Yao
      Market imperfections are central to understanding the mechanisms that permit firms to capture value. Many of these imperfections are competed away when firms struggle to attain and defend competitive advantages, making markets more efficient in the process. The... View Details
      Keywords: Integrated Strategy; Nonmarket Strategy; Market Imperfections; Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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      Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Dennis Yao. "Integrated Strategy: Residual Market and Exchange Imperfections as the Foundation of Sustainable Competitive Advantage." Special Issue on Strategy and the Institutional Environment edited by Gautam Ahuja, Laurence Capron, Michael Lenox, and Dennis A. Yao. Strategy Science 3, no. 2 (June 2018): 463–480.
      • 2013
      • Chapter

      Market Imperfections and Sustainable Competitive Advantage

      By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis Yao
      This chapter reviews the main theories in strategic management that seek to explain persistent differences in profitability across companies. We argue that these differences are ultimately explained by market imperfections. Studying differences in financial performance... View Details
      Keywords: Strategic Management; Market Imperfections; Five Forces Framework; Competitive Advantage; Profit
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      Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Dennis Yao. "Market Imperfections and Sustainable Competitive Advantage." Chap. 12 in Oxford Handbook of Managerial Economics, by Christopher R. Thomas and William F. Shughart II, 262–277. Oxford University Press, 2013.
      • August 2009
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      Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets

      By: Pol Antras, Mihir Desai and C. Fritz Foley
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Capital; Markets
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      Antras, Pol, Mihir Desai, and C. Fritz Foley. "Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets." Quarterly Journal of Economics 124, no. 3 (August 2009): 1171–1219.
      • 2009
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      Self-regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature

      By: Andrew A. King and Michael W. Toffel
      Scholars of management have long considered how institutions can help resolve market imperfections and thereby improve human welfare. Most previous research has emphasized the use of for-profit firms. Such institutions cannot effectively address many environmental... View Details
      Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Competitive Advantage
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      King, Andrew A., and Michael W. Toffel. "Self-regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature." Chap. 4 in Governance for the Environment: New Perspectives, edited by Magali Delmas and Oran Young, 98–115. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
      • January 2009
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      Multinationals as Arbitrageurs? The Effect of Stock Market Valuations on Foreign Direct Investment

      By: Malcolm Baker, C. Fritz Foley and Jeffrey Wurgler
      Empirical evidence of imperfect integration across world capital markets suggests a role for cross-border arbitrage by multinationals. Consistent with multinational arbitrage as a determinant of foreign direct investment (FDI) patterns, we find that FDI flows increase... View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Financial Markets; Foreign Direct Investment; Valuation; Capital Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Cost; Forecasting and Prediction; Capital; Stocks; Integration
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      Baker, Malcolm, C. Fritz Foley, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Multinationals as Arbitrageurs? The Effect of Stock Market Valuations on Foreign Direct Investment." Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 1 (January 2009): 337–369.
      • fall 2008
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      The Intermediation of Financial Risks: Evolution in the Catastrophe Reinsurance Market

      By: Kenneth A. Froot
      In this paper, I provide evidence concerning the imperfections in the reinsurance market. I try to get at some of the root causes of these imperfections, e.g., the behavior of ratings firms and the agency problems associated with the corporate form of ownership. I also... View Details
      Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Banking And Insurance; Hedging; Banking; Financial Markets; Insurance; Policy; Risk Management; Natural Disasters; Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing; Insurance Industry
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      Froot, Kenneth A. "The Intermediation of Financial Risks: Evolution in the Catastrophe Reinsurance Market." Risk Management and Insurance Review 11, no. 2 (fall 2008): 281–294.
      • 2007
      • Working Paper

      Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets

      By: Pol Antras, Mihir A. Desai and C. Fritz Foley
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      Antras, Pol, Mihir A. Desai, and C. Fritz Foley. "Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 12855, January 2007.
      • 1998
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      Capital Formation and Investment in Venture Markets: An Assessment of Market Imperfections

      By: P. Gompers
      Keywords: Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Investment
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      Gompers, P. "Capital Formation and Investment in Venture Markets: An Assessment of Market Imperfections." In The Economic Evaluation of Technological Change, edited by Paul A. Gompers. National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1998.
      • September 1996
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      Capital Market Imperfections and Countercyclical Markups: Theory and Evidence

      By: Judith A. Chevalier and David S. Scharfstein
      Keywords: Capital; Markets; Theory
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      Chevalier, Judith A., and David S. Scharfstein. "Capital Market Imperfections and Countercyclical Markups: Theory and Evidence." American Economic Review 86, no. 4 (September 1996): 703–725.
      • 1995
      • Book

      The Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective

      By: D. B. Crane, K. A. Froot, Scott P. Mason, André Perold, R. C. Merton, Z. Bodie, E. R. Sirri and P. Tufano
      Keywords: Corporate Finance; Imperfect Markets; Behavioral Finance; Asset Pricing
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      Crane, D. B., K. A. Froot, Scott P. Mason, André Perold, R. C. Merton, Z. Bodie, E. R. Sirri, and P. Tufano. The Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995.
      • 1994
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      Foreign Direct Investment in Eastern Europe: Some Economic Considerations

      By: K. Froot
      Keywords: Markets; Asset Pricing; Corporate Finance; Market Imperfections; Foreign Direct Investment; Europe
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      Froot, K. "Foreign Direct Investment in Eastern Europe: Some Economic Considerations." In The Transition in Eastern Europe (Restructuring). Vol. 2, edited by O. Blanchard, K. Froot, and J. Sachs, 293–318. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
      • January 1994
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      Jumping the Gun: Imperfections and Institutions Related to the Timing of Market Transactions

      By: A. E. Roth and X. Xing
      Keywords: Market Transactions
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      Roth, A. E., and X. Xing. "Jumping the Gun: Imperfections and Institutions Related to the Timing of Market Transactions." American Economic Review 84, no. 4 (January 1994): 992–1044.
      • 1993
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      Foreign Direct Investment

      By: K. Froot
      Keywords: Corporate Finance; Market Imperfections; Foreign Direct Investment; Financial Instruments; Markets; Asset Pricing
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      Froot, K., ed. Foreign Direct Investment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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      Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment: An Imperfect Capital Markets Approach

      By: K. A. Froot and Jeremy Stein
      Keywords: Corporate Finance; Market Imperfections; Foreign Direct Investment; Markets; Financial Instruments; Asset Pricing
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      Froot, K. A., and Jeremy Stein. "Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment: An Imperfect Capital Markets Approach." Quarterly Journal of Economics 106, no. 4 (November 1991): 1191–1217. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 2914, March 1989.)
      • 1991
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      Japanese Foreign Direct Investment

      By: K. A. Froot
      Keywords: Market Imperfections; Financial Instruments; Markets; Asset Pricing; Foreign Direct Investment; Corporate Finance
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      Froot, K. A. "Japanese Foreign Direct Investment." In U.S.-Japan Economic Forum. Vol. 1, edited by M. Feldstein and Y. Kosai. National Bureau of Economic Research, 1991. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 3737, June 1991.)
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