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Privileged Lending: Syndicate Loans and Inside Information
Participating in a syndicated loan may be far more valuable to institutional investors than simply the return on lending money
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Understanding Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity
Booms and busts are part of private equity's history. But industry firms have been consistently successful at making valuable changes to the companies they buy
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The Impact of Private Equity on Employment
In the wake of a buyout, old jobs are destroyed at firms backed by private equity at a faster pace than at other firms. But as private equity groups steer companies into more profitable areas of business, they also create new jobs at new facilities more rapidly than other firms
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The Economics of Prostitution
Prostitutes want to be where their customers can easily find them, so they tend to cluster in areas well-known to their clients much like stores do in shopping malls
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How Customers Influence the Evolution of New Products
Paying attention to how customers use a new product can help companies become more successful in the marketplace.
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Understanding the Power of Networks
A surprising finding on the value of colleague networks leads to an even more remarkable revelation of how networks truly work.
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Tipping the Balance: Indirect Network Effects and Market Concentration
In markets where the value to consumers of a high-tech product depends on the actual and expected availability of software titles, the winning product can take all
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Building a Better Brand: How Feelings Shape Product Evaluation
A Recent study states animals on wine labels are becoming an increasingly popular and lucrative way to sell wines.
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Television's Impact on the Status of Women
Turning on the television can be a simple yet influential way of improving a woman�s standing in rural India
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Nudge: The Gentle Power of Choice Architecture
Can subtle features of everyday situations really enhance our health, wealth, and happiness? A new book shows that they can, and that it is possible to proactively structure situations to nudge us toward better choices while protecting, or even expanding, individual freedoms.
