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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
that in countries with higher GDP growth leverage is correlated with less corporate financial fragility. Consistent with Gabaix (2011) this paper finds a granularity effect in that large firms are...
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30
and its implied elasticities are in the ballpark of a range of micro estimates. We find industrial policy subsidizing either the R&D or the continued operation of incumbents reduces growth and welfare. For example, a subsidy to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Abstract We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, where trust increases efficiency and thus allows higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
growth in the future? What aspects of the system at the level of firms, industries, nations, or multilateral institutions might cause serious difficulties?" The principal response is summed in the book: "Market capitalism has proven to be...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
At the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina was one of the great economic powers in the world—capitalizing on exports of beef and wheat to be a leader in the first wave of globalization. Neighboring Chile was poised for tremendous View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
benefits to the next generation of elderly, whose burgeoning numbers will dwarf those of the working population. "The only win-win solution to this problem," he said, "is for the GDP growth of...
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by James E. Aisner
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
compliance function to being a profit center. The ratio of corporate taxes to GDP declined through the late 1990s even during an economic expansion. There has been a growing disconnect between the income reports to capital markets and tax...
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by Ann Cullen
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
multinational resource and related investments were highly enclavist and embedded in the institutional arrangements of Western imperialism and autocratic dictators. Western firms reinforced rather than disrupted institutional and societal norms, which restricted View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
creates wealth for some people): The lesson of successes like Iskandar in Malaysia are that real estate follows other activity: population growth and GDP growth. Dynamism and jobs can't be created on a large...
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- 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15
recruit and retain motivated and capable CHWs. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910030-PDF-ENG Brazil: Leading the BRICs? Arthur A. Daemmrich and Aldo MusacchioHarvard Business School Case 711-024 Brazil's new president, Dilma Rousseff, had...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% for the first quarter of this year, and by more than 1.5% for the second quarter. The financial consequences are equally alarming. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average...
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- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
impact of leverage on financial vulnerability for large firms during a crisis. Consistent with Gabaix (2011) the paper finds a granularity effect in that large firms are systemically important—idiosyncratic shocks to the sales growth of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
today: the companies themselves. During that period, investor protection laws in Brazil were relatively weak—yet investors bought equity on a "massive scale," according to Harvard Business School professor Aldo Musacchio, bankrolling corporate View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
growth, stagnant GDP growth, and high public debt. As of early 2007, the country's global competitiveness has plummeted and its debt remains well above the level allowed by the EU's Maastricht treaty. Historical and structural reasons for...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
to the global population was a challenge. Health care costs accounted for 10% of world GDP by 2013. In the U.S., health care costs were expected to top $3.1 trillion in 2014. New technologies, shortages of trained personnel, and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
rubber markets during the boom years of 1870-1910 shows that the government generated 1.3% of GDP through an export tax on rubber but that it could have generated 4.7% in total, had the government set the tariff at the optimal level....
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the world witnessed an explosion in capital flows at the global level. Gross foreign assets and liabilities stood at two or three times...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
contractions in demand. At exactly this time, between 2007 and 2012, the provincial municipality of Chongqing in China's mountainous southwest became the fastest growing city in China with GDP growth...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
as Greece, Israel, and Spain. Between 1978 and 2001, however, Venezuela's economy went sharply in reverse, with non-oil GDP declining by almost 19% and oil GDP by an astonishing 65%. What accounts for this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
creative destruction following U.S. banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. U.S. banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. The vast majority of closures, however, were the new...
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Martha Lagace