Search Results - "Townsend, Richard"

The Impact of Venture Capital Monitoring by BERNSTEIN, SHAI, GIROUD, XAVIER, TOWNSEND, RICHARD R.

“…We show that venture capitalists' (VCs) on-site involvement with their portfolio companies leads to an increase in both innovation and the likelihood of a…”
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Are early stage investors biased against women? by Ewens, Michael, Townsend, Richard R.

“…We study whether early stage investors have gender biases using a proprietary data set from AngelList that allows us to observe private interactions between…”
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Growth through rigidity: An explanation for the rise in CEO pay by Shue, Kelly, Townsend, Richard R.

“…The dramatic rise in CEO compensation during the 1990s and early 2000s is a longstanding puzzle. In this paper, we show that much of the rise can be explained…”
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SUB-INERTIAL GRAVITY MODES IN THE B8V STAR KIC 7760680 REVEAL MODERATE CORE OVERSHOOTING AND LOW VERTICAL DIFFUSIVE MIXING by Moravveji, Ehsan, Townsend, Richard H. D., Aerts, Conny, Mathis, Stéphane

“…ABSTRACT Thus far, KIC 7760680 is the richest slowly pulsating B star, exhibiting 36 consecutive dipole ( = 1) gravity (g-) modes. The monotonically decreasing…”
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How Do Quasi-Random Option Grants Affect CEO Risk-Taking? by SHUE, KELLY, TOWNSEND, RICHARD R.

“…We examine how an increase in stock option grants affects CEO risk-taking. The overall net effect of option grants is theoretically ambiguous for risk-averse…”
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Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Time-dependent Convection, Energy Conservation, Automatic Differentiation, and Infrastructure by Jermyn, Adam S., Bauer, Evan B., Schwab, Josiah, Farmer, R., Ball, Warrick H., Bellinger, Earl P., Dotter, Aaron, Joyce, Meridith, Marchant, Pablo, Mombarg, Joey S. G., Wolf, William M., Sunny Wong, Tin Long, Cinquegrana, Giulia C., Farrell, Eoin, Smolec, R., Thoul, Anne, Cantiello, Matteo, Herwig, Falk, Toloza, Odette, Bildsten, Lars, Townsend, Richard H. D., Timmes, F. X.

“…Abstract We update the capabilities of the open-knowledge software instrument Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics ( MESA ). The new auto _ diff…”
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Dynamical simulations of magnetically channelled line-driven stellar winds – III. Angular momentum loss and rotational spin-down by Ud-Doula, Asif, Owocki, Stanley P., Townsend, Richard H. D.

“…We examine the angular momentum loss and associated rotational spin-down for magnetic hot stars with a line-driven stellar wind and a rotation-aligned dipole…”
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Dynamical simulations of magnetically channelled line-driven stellar winds – II. The effects of field-aligned rotation by Ud-Doula, Asif, Owocki, Stanley P., Townsend, Richard H. D.

“…Building upon our previous magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation study of magnetic channelling in radiatively driven stellar winds, we examine here the…”
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Can the Market Multiply and Divide? Non‐Proportional Thinking in Financial Markets by SHUE, KELLY, TOWNSEND, RICHARD R.

“…ABSTRACT We hypothesize that investors partially think about stock price changes in dollar rather than percentage units, leading to more extreme return…”
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Do Household Wealth Shocks Affect Productivity? Evidence from Innovative Workers During the Great Recession by BERNSTEIN, SHAI, MCQUADE, TIMOTHY, TOWNSEND, RICHARD R.

“…ABSTRACT We investigate how the deterioration of household balance sheets affects worker productivity, and in turn economic downturns. Specifically, we compare…”
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Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups by Bernstein, Shai, Townsend, Richard R, Xu, Ting

“…Abstract Using proprietary data from AngelList Talent, we study how startup job seekers’ search and application behavior changed during the COVID-19 downturn…”
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How the breakout-limited mass in B-star centrifugal magnetospheres controls their circumstellar H α emission by Owocki, Stanley P, Shultz, Matt E, ud-Doula, Asif, Sundqvist, Jon O, Townsend, Richard H D, Cranmer, Steven R

“…ABSTRACT Strongly magnetic B-type stars with moderately rapid rotation form ‘centrifugal magnetospheres’ (CMs) from the magnetic trapping of stellar wind…”
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A new window to tidal asteroseismology: non-linearly excited stellar eigenmodes and the period spacing pattern in KOI-54 by Guo, Zhao, Ogilvie, Gordon I, Li, Gang, Townsend, Richard H D, Sun, Meng

“…ABSTRACT We revisit the tidally excited oscillations (TEOs) in the A-type main-sequence eccentric binary KOI-54, the prototype of heartbeat stars. Although the…”
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Propagation of Financial Shocks: The Case of Venture Capital by Townsend, Richard R.

“…This paper investigates how venture-backed companies are affected when others sharing the same investor suffer a negative shock. In theory, companies may be…”
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Stability and pulsation of the first dark stars by Rindler-Daller, Tanja, Freese, Katherine, Townsend, Richard H D, Visinelli, Luca

“…ABSTRACT The first bright objects to form in the Universe might not have been ‘ordinary’ fusion-powered stars, but ‘dark stars’ (DSs) powered by the…”
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An ‘analytic dynamical magnetosphere’ formalism for X-ray and optical emission from slowly rotating magnetic massive stars by Owocki, Stanley P., ud-Doula, Asif, Sundqvist, Jon O., Petit, Veronique, Cohen, David H., Townsend, Richard H. D.

“…Slowly rotating magnetic massive stars develop ‘dynamical magnetospheres’ (DMs), characterized by trapping of stellar wind outflow in closed magnetic loops,…”
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Effect of a magnetic field on massive-star winds – I. Mass-loss and velocity for a dipole field by Bard, Christopher, Townsend, Richard H. D.

“…We generalize the Rigid-Field Hydrodynamic equations to accommodate arbitrary magnetic field topologies, resulting in a new Arbitrary Rigid-Field Hydrodynamic…”
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Nonradial Pulsations in Post-outburst Novae by Wolf, William M., Townsend, Richard H. D., Bildsten, Lars

“…After an optical peak, a classical or recurrent nova settles into a brief (days to years) period of quasi-stable thermonuclear burning in a compact…”
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A statistical test and sample size recommendations for comparing community composition following PCA by Skalski, John R, Richins, Shelby M, Townsend, Richard L

“…Many investigations of anthropogenic and natural impacts in ecological systems attempt to detect differences in ecological variables or community composition…”
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Does Career Risk Deter Potential Entrepreneurs? by Gottlieb, Joshua D, Townsend, Richard R, Xu, Ting

“…Abstract Do potential entrepreneurs remain in wage employment because of concerns that they will face worse job opportunities should their entrepreneurial…”
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