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Tipping The Balance: Indirect Network Effects And Market Concentration
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The article focuses on market values of high-tech products, market concentration and network effects on different IT products. The actual and expected software availability narrows down to a...
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The Dividend Puzzle: A New Generation Of Firms Replaces Dividends With Stock Repurchases
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
"Over the last 30 years, corporate payout policy - a firm's policy for paying dividends and making stock repurchases - has changed significantly as earnings have become more volatile. A new study...
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Finding The Right Spot: A Game Of Location Choice
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wal-Mart is the king of the retail discount industry, or at least that's what everyone says. Without access to detailed data, however, that claim may be hard to prove. New research looks into the...
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Dominant Use: How Customers Influence The Evolution Of New Products
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Paying attention to how customers use a new product can help companies become more successful in the marketplace. How customers use a technology generates important information about its...
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Managing Risk: Asset Allocation Within Pension Plans
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
How do firms decide whether to invest in riskier or safer assets? Recent research analyzes the conflicting incentives for managing cash flow risk in defined benefit pension plans. Corporate...
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Neighbor Networks: Understanding The Power Of Networks
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A surprising finding on the value of colleague networks leads to an even more remarkable revelation of how networks truly work. Is it who you know rather than what you know that really matters?...
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Forums Vs. Fountains: Universities And The Evolution Of Knowledge Networks
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Universities can help boost a mature industrial economy by reinvigorating the flow of new ideas in the community. But universities can approach this task in different ways, each leading to vastly...
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Consumers And Their Satellite Dishes: How Strong Is The Bond?
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
A new study shows that cable companies have a greater degree of market power than satellite companies. Home satellite systems provide the only alternative to local cable television companies for...
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The Pack Mentality: A Behavioral Finance View Of Stock Price Comovement
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
By looking carefully at data on individual stock prices, it is easy to find many examples of "Comovement"-groups of stocks whose prices tend to move together. For instance, prices of stocks in the...
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Building A High-Tech Neighborhood: What Does It Take To Create The Economic Environment For Entrepreneurship?
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Policymakers around the world have sought to emulate the industrial conditions that gave rise to the Silicon Valley economic dynamo of the 1990s. Although theories about the factors that underlie...
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How Much are Nonexistent Earnings Worth?: Throwing Away Cash To Report False Earnings
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
How much will firms spend to perpetuate accounting fraud? New research indicates that some firms are willing to burn through their cash to inflate their financial statements. Today, accounting...
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Don't Blame The System: Why Capitalism Must Be Saved From The Capitalists
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Capitalism has always been seen as an instrument for the rich to get richer. A new book turns this view upside down: Capitalism is instead a system that fundamentally benefits everyone, especially...
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The $4 Trillion Question: How To Judge Mutual Fund Managers
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
New research suggests that mutual fund managers are best evaluated by looking at the company they keep. Suppose an individual chooses a mutual fund manager with a stellar three-year history and...
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Banner Ads Click With Consumers: Online Advertising For Customer Retention
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Banner advertising helps companies retain customers by bringing them back to a company's Web site faster and encouraging them to spend more. Total spending on Internet advertising now exceeds...
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Tainted Knowledge Vs. Tempting Knowledge: Rivalry, Self-Esteem, And Patterns Of Learning
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
People want to have positive views of themselves, and organize much of their lives around maintaining, enhancing, and protecting their self-esteem. By simply comparing oneself to more successful...
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The Wireless Revolution: Pioneering Uses Of Information Technology In Trucking
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless networking applications in trucking have yielded significant increases in productivity. The economic value of many applications of Information Technology (IT) rest on the same principles:...
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Beyond The Protestant Work Ethic: Religion And Economic Attitudes
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
New research suggests a link between religion and attitudes that are conducive to economic growth. Economists, sociologists, and political scientists have long been interested in explaining the...
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The Business Of Managing Decisions: Understanding The Place Of Uncertainty
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
If introducing a new product line creates a small probability of losing a few million dollars and a large probability of earning many billions of dollars, it seems clear that the new product line...
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Not Beyond Repair: How Organizational Practices Can Compensate For Individual Shortcomings
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
More than 30 years of research in cognitive psychology has resulted in rather mixed reviews for human judgment and reasoning. Some researchers have marveled at what the human brain can accomplish....
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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White Papers
Which CEO Characteristics And Abilities Matter?
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The author studies the characteristics and abilities of CEO candidates for companies involved in buyout (LBO) and Venture Capital (VC) transactions and relate them to hiring decisions, investment...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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What's Advertising Content Worth?: Evidence From A Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Firms spend billions of dollars developing advertising content, yet there is little field evidence on how much or how it affects demand. The authors analyze a direct mail field experiment in South...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Understanding The Mechanisms Through Which An In Uential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes James Heckman, Lena Malofeeva, Rodrigo Pinto, and Peter Savelyev
March 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Perry Preschool program was a randomized social experiment with long run followup that supplemented the early environments of disadvantaged African Ameri-can children. Evidence from the...
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From Farm To Fork: innovations In The Chicago Food Industry
March 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship at the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business and the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (CEC) are pleased to sponsor and present this White Paper,...
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Long Term Persistence
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Is social capital long lasting? Does it affect long term economic performance? To answer these questions author tested Putnam's conjecture that today marked differences in social capital between...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Media Versus Special Interests
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The author argues that profit-maximizing media help overcome the problem of "Rational ignorance" highlighted by Downs (1957) and in so doing make elected representatives more sensitive to the...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Measuring Media Slant:How Market Forces Influence Newspaper Content
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Political pundits on both sides of the aisle accuse newspapers of maintaining a liberal or conservative bias. New research suggests that newspapers choose their political slant based on what their...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Asset Pricing Tests With Long Run Risks In Consumption Growth
February 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
The Bansal and Yaron (2004) model of Long Run Risks (LLR) in aggregate consumption and dividend growth and its extension that captures potential co-integration of the consumption and dividend...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Control Of Corporate Decisions: Shareholders Vs. Management
May 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Activist shareholders have lately been attempting to assert themselves in a struggle with management and regulators over control of corporate decisions. These efforts have met with mixed success....
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Podcasts
Chicago Booth Podcast: Faculty Panel On Ethics And Wall Street
January 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
Booth faculty members Steve N. Kaplan, Tobias Moskowitz and Luigi Zingales spoke at a Myron Scholes Global Market Forum event sponsored by the Initiative on Global Markets. They offered advice to...
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Chicago Booth Podcast: Household Leverage And The Recession Of 2007 To 2009
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
Associate Professor of Finance Amir Sufitalked to students at a Becker Brown Bag Series sponsored by the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory about research that suggests household leverage plays...
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Chicago Booth Podcast: Should Executive Pay Be Regulated?
February 22, 2009, 12:00am PST
This broadcast features faculty member and former Federal Reserve Governor Randall Kroszner talking about the financial crisis and reform. He discussed his first-hand experiences including the...
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Chicago Booth Podcast: The Future Of Markets
June 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the midst of the worst recession since the 1930s, six Chicago Booth faculty members reexamined the role of government in the economy at a special forum at the 57th annual Management Conference...
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Chicago Booth Podcast: Why Regulations Must Be Consistent Across Financial And Geographical Borders
May 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Vice Chairman of Deutsche Bank's Global Group, Malcom Knight, spoke at a Myron Scholes Global Markets Forum on the need to address regulatory arbitrage across financial and geographical borders.
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Chicago Booth Podcast: Obama's Election Ushered Out Conservatism
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
New York Times columnist David Brooks examines the new political landscape ushered in by Barack Obama's election. Brooks spoke at an event sponsored by the Initiative on Global Markets.
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Chicago Booth Podcast: 2009 Business Forecast With Chicago Booth Faculty
March 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This broadcast features the 2009 Business Forecast with Chicago Booth faculty members Marvin Zonis and Erik Hurst along with Michael Mussa, senior fellow at The Peterson Institute for...
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Chicago Booth Podcast: The Growth Report: Strategies For Sustained Growth And Inclusive Development
March 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
Danny Leipziger was Vice Chair of the Commission on Growth and Development which undertook a two year study of policies and strategies that underlie rapid and sustained economic growth and poverty...
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Chicago Booth Podcast: How The Free Market Emerged In Poland
November 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
Leszek Balcerowicz, former deputy prime minister and minister of finance of Poland, discusses transitional economies at a Myron Scholes Global Markets Forum event. Mr. Balcerowicz had an enormous...
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Chicago Booth Podcast: A Faculty Panel Discusses The Credit Crisis
November 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
Brian Barry, John Cochrane, Steven Kaplan and Raghuram Rajan offer their perspectives on some likely consequences as well as possible steps to resolve it and lessen its impact without setting...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Chicago GSB Podcast: CEOs Need Tougher, Not Softer Skills To Succeed
July 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This broadcast features Steven Kaplan, Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, speaking at the 2008 Management Conference. He shares his research on how successful CEOs are...
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Chicago GSB Podcast: Is The Media Really Biased?
May 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This broadcast features Jesse Shapiro, assistant professor of economics addressing a Becker Brown Bag Lunch for students. He shares his research into media bias and demonstrates that media demand...
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Former President Of Mexico On "The Destructive Power Of Government"
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Former President of Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, took a historical look at the risks threatening globalization's resilience. Currently the director of the Yale Center for the Study of...
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Becker Brown Bag: How Productivity Benefits From Competition
June 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
There's nothing like a little competition to suddenly boost productivity. Competition forced miners to double the amount of iron ore they dug per hour, as told in one case study. In another,...
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Chicago GSB Podcast: Leader Of The House Of Lords On The Free Market
June 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Despite fierce economic competition provided by such emerging countries as Pakistan and China, the developed world must resist the temptation to legislate economic security, according to Baroness...
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Chicago GSB Podcast: CEO Goalsetting
July 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This broadcast features William McComb, '87, CEO of Liz Claiborne and Mary Ann Tolan, '92 (XP-61), founder and CEO of Accretive Health, moderated by Dean Edward Snyder. They discuss how to make...
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Chicago GSB Podcast: Debunking Myths About The New China
July 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The rise of capitalism in China doesn't mean they're becoming more like the West says Tom Doctoroff, '89, CEO of J. Walter Thompson's Greater China division and author of "Billions". He discusses...
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Chicago GSB Podcast: James Kilts: Creating A "Constant Turnaround Mentality"
October 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This broadcast features James Kilts, MBA '74 and former CEO of Gillette. Kilts shares advice from his new book Doing What Matters: How to Get Results That Make a Difference - The Revolutionary...
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Chicago GSB Podcast: Former CMO Of Coca Cola On The Truth About Marketing
November 28, 2007, 12:00am PST
When it comes right down to it, marketing is about making money, said Sergio Zyman, chairman and founder of Zyman Group and former chief marketing officer of the Coca-Cola Company. "My philosophy...
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Chicago GSB Podcast: Brady Dougan On Innovation In The IBanking industry
December 20, 2007, 12:00am PST
This broadcast features the CEO of Credit Suisse Group, Brady Dougan, AB '81, MBA '82. Dougan discusses innovation in an industry he feels "Recreates itself every 20 years or so."
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Chicago GSB Podcast: Getting The Basics Right Is Key To McDonald's Turnaround
January 31, 2008, 12:00am PST
Ralph Alvarez, president and COO of McDonalds, talks about strategy and why getting the basics right are important. As Alvarez discussed, "When you have a problem, you get permission to make...
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Chicago GSB Podcast: Daniel Esty On How CEO's Can Turn "Green Into Gold"
February 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
Daniel Esty, professor of environmental law and policy at Yale University, talks about how CEO's can turn "Green into Gold". His remarks focus the growing trend where businesses take environmental...
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Chicago GSB Podcast: Gordon Crovitz On Changes Affecting The Media Industry
March 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
This broadcast features a Gordon Crovitz, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Crovitz looks at the question of "How Will Newspapers Survive?" and discusses how identifying and exploiting...
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Chicago GSB Podcast: Gururaj Deshpande On The Next Wave Of Technology Innovations
March 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
This broadcast features Gururaj Deshpande, the billionaire chairman of Sycamore Networks, addressing the TechVision 2008 conference which looked at key issues and trends in high tech. Deshpande...
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Chicago GSB Podcast: Road To CEO With Bill McComb Of Liz Claiborne Inc. And Andris Cukurs
March 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This broadcast features two CEOs, Bill McComb, of Liz Claiborne Inc., and Andris Cukurs, Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation. Both are GSB alumni and were participating in the Charles M. Har per Road...
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Chicago GSB Podcast: Is The Media Really Biased?
May 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This broadcast features Jesse Shapiro, assistant professor of economics addressing a Becker Brown Bag Lunch for students. He shares his research into media bias and demonstrates that media demand...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Podcasts
Chicago GSB Podcast: CEOs Need Tougher, Not Softer Skills To Succeed
July 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This broadcast features Steven Kaplan, Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, speaking at the 2008 Management Conference. He shares his research on how successful CEOs are...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Podcasts
Chicago Booth Podcast: A Faculty Panel Discusses The Credit Crisis
November 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
Brian Barry, John Cochrane, Steven Kaplan and Raghuram Rajan offer their perspectives on some likely consequences as well as possible steps to resolve it and lessen its impact without setting...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Podcasts
Chicago Booth Podcast: How The Free Market Emerged In Poland
November 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
Leszek Balcerowicz, former deputy prime minister and minister of finance of Poland, discusses transitional economies at a Myron Scholes Global Markets Forum event. Mr. Balcerowicz had an enormous...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Podcasts
Chicago Booth Podcast: The Growth Report: Strategies For Sustained Growth And Inclusive Development
March 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
Danny Leipziger was Vice Chair of the Commission on Growth and Development which undertook a two year study of policies and strategies that underlie rapid and sustained economic growth and poverty...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Podcasts
Chicago Booth Podcast: 2009 Business Forecast With Chicago Booth Faculty
March 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This broadcast features the 2009 Business Forecast with Chicago Booth faculty members Marvin Zonis and Erik Hurst along with Michael Mussa, senior fellow at The Peterson Institute for...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Podcasts
Chicago Booth Podcast: Obama's Election Ushered Out Conservatism
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
New York Times columnist David Brooks examines the new political landscape ushered in by Barack Obama's election. Brooks spoke at an event sponsored by the Initiative on Global Markets.
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Podcasts
Chicago Booth Podcast: Why Regulations Must Be Consistent Across Financial And Geographical Borders
May 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Vice Chairman of Deutsche Bank's Global Group, Malcom Knight, spoke at a Myron Scholes Global Markets Forum on the need to address regulatory arbitrage across financial and geographical borders.
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Podcasts
Chicago Booth Podcast: The Future Of Markets
June 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the midst of the worst recession since the 1930s, six Chicago Booth faculty members reexamined the role of government in the economy at a special forum at the 57th annual Management Conference...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Podcasts
Chicago Booth Podcast: Should Executive Pay Be Regulated?
February 22, 2009, 12:00am PST
This broadcast features faculty member and former Federal Reserve Governor Randall Kroszner talking about the financial crisis and reform. He discussed his first-hand experiences including the...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Podcasts
Chicago Booth Podcast: Household Leverage And The Recession Of 2007 To 2009
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
Associate Professor of Finance Amir Sufitalked to students at a Becker Brown Bag Series sponsored by the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory about research that suggests household leverage plays...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Podcasts
Chicago Booth Podcast: Faculty Panel On Ethics And Wall Street
January 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
Booth faculty members Steve N. Kaplan, Tobias Moskowitz and Luigi Zingales spoke at a Myron Scholes Global Market Forum event sponsored by the Initiative on Global Markets. They offered advice to...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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White Papers
Control Of Corporate Decisions: Shareholders Vs. Management
May 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Activist shareholders have lately been attempting to assert themselves in a struggle with management and regulators over control of corporate decisions. These efforts have met with mixed success....
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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White Papers
Asset Pricing Tests With Long Run Risks In Consumption Growth
February 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
The Bansal and Yaron (2004) model of Long Run Risks (LLR) in aggregate consumption and dividend growth and its extension that captures potential co-integration of the consumption and dividend...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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White Papers
Measuring Media Slant:How Market Forces Influence Newspaper Content
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Political pundits on both sides of the aisle accuse newspapers of maintaining a liberal or conservative bias. New research suggests that newspapers choose their political slant based on what their...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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White Papers
Media Versus Special Interests
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The author argues that profit-maximizing media help overcome the problem of "Rational ignorance" highlighted by Downs (1957) and in so doing make elected representatives more sensitive to the...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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White Papers
Long Term Persistence
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Is social capital long lasting? Does it affect long term economic performance? To answer these questions author tested Putnam's conjecture that today marked differences in social capital between...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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White Papers
From Farm To Fork: innovations In The Chicago Food Industry
March 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship at the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business and the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (CEC) are pleased to sponsor and present this White Paper,...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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White Papers
Understanding The Mechanisms Through Which An In Uential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes James Heckman, Lena Malofeeva, Rodrigo Pinto, and Peter Savelyev
March 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Perry Preschool program was a randomized social experiment with long run followup that supplemented the early environments of disadvantaged African Ameri-can children. Evidence from the...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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White Papers
What's Advertising Content Worth?: Evidence From A Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Firms spend billions of dollars developing advertising content, yet there is little field evidence on how much or how it affects demand. The authors analyze a direct mail field experiment in South...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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White Papers
Which CEO Characteristics And Abilities Matter?
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The author studies the characteristics and abilities of CEO candidates for companies involved in buyout (LBO) and Venture Capital (VC) transactions and relate them to hiring decisions, investment...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
-
White Papers
Not Beyond Repair: How Organizational Practices Can Compensate For Individual Shortcomings
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
More than 30 years of research in cognitive psychology has resulted in rather mixed reviews for human judgment and reasoning. Some researchers have marveled at what the human brain can accomplish....
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
-
White Papers
The Business Of Managing Decisions: Understanding The Place Of Uncertainty
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
If introducing a new product line creates a small probability of losing a few million dollars and a large probability of earning many billions of dollars, it seems clear that the new product line...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
-
White Papers
Beyond The Protestant Work Ethic: Religion And Economic Attitudes
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
New research suggests a link between religion and attitudes that are conducive to economic growth. Economists, sociologists, and political scientists have long been interested in explaining the...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
-
White Papers
The Wireless Revolution: Pioneering Uses Of Information Technology In Trucking
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless networking applications in trucking have yielded significant increases in productivity. The economic value of many applications of Information Technology (IT) rest on the same principles:...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
-
White Papers
Tainted Knowledge Vs. Tempting Knowledge: Rivalry, Self-Esteem, And Patterns Of Learning
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
People want to have positive views of themselves, and organize much of their lives around maintaining, enhancing, and protecting their self-esteem. By simply comparing oneself to more successful...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
-
White Papers
Banner Ads Click With Consumers: Online Advertising For Customer Retention
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Banner advertising helps companies retain customers by bringing them back to a company's Web site faster and encouraging them to spend more. Total spending on Internet advertising now exceeds...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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