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    • U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence 

      Kerr, William Robert (2014-01-13)
      High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of ...

    • Under New Management: Equity Issues and the Attribution of Past Returns 

      Baker, Malcolm P.; Xuan, Yuhai (Elsevier, 2016-06-17)
      There is a strong link between measures of stock market performance, such as changes in Tobin's Q or past stock returns, and equity issues. Typically, this performance is thought to be a characteristic of the firm, not the ...

    • Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device 

      Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina Deborah (2012)
      We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 Chilean micro-entrepreneurs. The first experiment finds that self-help ...

    • Undisclosed Debt Sustainability 

      Alfaro, Laura; Kanczuk, Fabio (American Economic Association, 2022-05-01)
      Over the past decade, non-Paris Club creditors, notably China, have become an important source of financing for low- and middle-income countries. In contrast with typical sovereign debt, these lending arrangements are not ...

    • Unexpected benefits of deciding by mind wandering 

      Giblin, Colleen E.; Morewedge, Carey K.; Norton, Michael I. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2013)
      The mind wanders, even when people are attempting to make complex decisions. We suggest that mind wandering—allowing one's thoughts to wander until the “correct” choice comes to mind—can positively impact people's feelings ...

    • A Universal Trade-Off Between Growth and Lag in Fluctuating Environments 

      Basan, Markus; Honda, Tomoya; Christodoulou, Dimitris; Hörl, Manuel; Chang, Yu Fang; Leoncini, Emanuele; Mukherjee, Avik; Okano, Hiroyuki; Taylor, Brian R.; Silverman, Josh M.; Sanchez, Carlos; Williamson, James R.; Paulsson, Johan; Hwa, Terence; Sauer, Uwe (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-07-15)
      The rate of cell growth is widely recognized as crucial for fitness in bacteria1,2 and a main driver of proteome allocation, but it is unclear how growth rates are ultimately determined. Increasing evidence suggests that ...

    • Unobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem 

      Ahmed, Faisal Z.; Werker, Eric David (2012-08-07)
      Autocrats experiencing a windfall in unearned income may find it optimal to donate to other countries some of the windfall in order to make the state a less attractive prize to potential insurgents. We put forward a model ...

    • Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation 

      Niederle, Muriel; Roth, Alvin; Ünver, M (MDPI AG, 2013-06-19)
      Markets sometimes unravel, with offers becoming inefficiently early. Often this is attributed to competition arising from an imbalance of demand and supply, typically excess demand for workers. However this presents a ...

    • Unstable Equity: Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing 

      Fang, Lily H.; Ivashina, Victoria; Lerner, Josh (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013-11-25)
      Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all private equity investments. Their market share is highest during peaks of the private equity market, when the parent banks arrange more debt financing for in-house ...

    • "Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations." 

      McGinn, Kathleen L.; Bowles, Hannah Riley (Academy of Management, 2008)
      Negotiation is a process that creates, reinforces, and reduces gender inequality in organizations, yet the study of gender in negotiation has little connection to the study of gender in organizations. We review the literature ...

    • Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics? China’s Gamble for Modernization 

      Looney, Kristen; Rithmire, Meg Elizabeth (2016-02-23)
      Contemporary discussions of urbanization and urban construction in China tend to focus on “ghost towns” on the one hand or urbanization as China’s silver bullet to growth and reform on the other. In this paper, we detail ...

    • The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Finance and Beyond 

      Lerner, Joshua; Seru, Amit (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2022-06)
      Patents and citations are powerful tools increasingly used in financial economics (and management research more broadly) to understand innovation. Biases may result, however, from the interactions between the truncation ...

    • Use of Connected Digital Products in Clinical Research Following the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comprehensive Analysis of Clinical Trials 

      Marra, Caroline; Gordon, William J; Stern, Ariel (BMJ, 2021-06)
      <b>Objectives:</b> In an effort to mitigate COVID-19 related challenges for clinical research, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued new guidance for the conduct of ‘virtual’ clinical trials in late March 2020. ...

    • Use of Crowd Innovation to Develop an Artificial Intelligence–Based Solution for Radiation Therapy Targeting 

      Mak, Raymond H.; Endres, Michael G.; Paik, Jin H.; Sergeev, Rinat A.; Aerts, Hugo; Williams, Christopher L.; Lakhani, Karim; Guinan, Eva C. (American Medical Association (AMA), 2019-05-01)
      Importance: Radiation therapy (RT) is a critical cancer treatment, but the existing radiation oncologist work force does not meet growing global demand. One key physician task in RT planning involves tumor segmentation for ...

    • The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension 

      Cole, Shawn; Fernando, Asanga Nilesh (2012-12-06)
      Attempts to explain the astonishing differences in agricultural productivity around the world typically focus on farm size, farmer risk aversion, and credit constraints, with an emphasis on how they might serve to limit ...

    • The Value of Corporate Citizenship: Protection 

      Minor, Dylan Blu (2015-08-31)
      We explore the notion that corporate citizenship, as obtained through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), is used by managers to protect firm value, helping their firm better withstand negative business shocks. We ...

    • The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence from Online Retailers 

      Berman, Ron; Israeli, Ayelet (INFORMS, 2022-11)
      Does the adoption of descriptive analytics impact online retailer performance, and if so, how? We use the synthetic difference-in-differences method to analyze the staggered adoption of a retail analytics dashboard by more ...

    • The Variance of Non-Parametric Treatment Effect Estimators in the Presence of Clustering 

      Hanson, Samuel; Sunderam, Adi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2012)
      Nonparametric estimators of treatment effects are often applied in settings where clustering may be important. We provide a general methodology for consistently estimating the variance of a large class of nonparametric ...

    • Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges 

      Kaplan, Steven N.; Lerner, Joshua (2016-08-22)
      This paper describes the available data and research on venture capital investments and performance. We comment on the challenges inherent in those data and research as well as possible opportunities to do better.

    • Venture Capital’s Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn 

      Lerner, Joshua; Nanda, Ramana (American Economic Association, 2020-08-01)
      Venture capital is associated with some of the most high-growth and influential firms in the world. Academics and practitioners have effectively articulated the strengths of the venture model. At the same time, venture ...