May 2010
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CEO Overconfidence and Innovation  →
Are CEOs’ attitudes and beliefs linked to their fims’ innovative performance? This paper uses Malmendier and Tate’s measure of overconfidence, based on CEO stock-option exercise, to study the relationship between a CEO’s “revealed beliefs” about future performance and standard measures of corporate innovation. We begin by developing a career concern model where CEOs innovate to provide evidence of...
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Listenbeeriety: David Cross - I Can’t Get Beer in Me ...
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Locals Only: Property Rights and the Commons →
Unlike frequently studied resources such as fisheries, surf breaks (locations where waves are particularly conducive to surfing) have the feature that wave quality is exogenous with respect to property rights.4 The complex combination of tides, geology, and climatology that lead to high-quality waves would remain unchanged, even under private ownership. Waves do not care if they are ridden or not,...
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Note to self:
When parents ask for a passport photo, just drive them to Kinko’s instead. 
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Dipping my foot in the Pool
For the past several years I have owned a Zune so I’ve used the Zune media software. Tonight I didn’t have much going on so I figured I could try some other media library programs. My experience has been awful.  Songbird: My ‘version of windows’ wasn’t supported.  Slow and unresponsive.  Didn’t support .m4a Used 100 meg in ram. Mediamonkey A button...
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Three Wolf Moon
\ˈthrē\  \ˈwu̇lf\ \ˈmün\ -adjective Inspiring awe; an awesome sight. Showing or characterized by awe. Slang. Very impressive: Yeah come over! This party is actually pretty three wolf moon. ORIGIN New English; Joe Wengert’s Twitter.
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End of my Semester.
Moved back to Charleston from Clemson Some of the worst allergies of my life again Sweating inhuman amounts (gross) To do: Find a summer job Ride my bike when my head is back to normal.
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