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- Research Summary
On the Political Economy of Stabilization Programs
By: Laura Alfaro
This paper provides a political economy explanation for temporary exchange-rate-based stabilization programs by focusing on the distributional effects of real exchange-rate appreciation. I propose an economy in which agents are endowed with either tradable or...
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- May 1996 (Revised December 1996)
- Case
China's Golden Projects: Reengineering the National Economy
Sviokla, John J. "China's Golden Projects: Reengineering the National Economy." Harvard Business School Case 396-283, May 1996. (Revised December 1996.)
- Awards
American Accounting Association. Financial Accounting and Reporting Section. Best Dissertation Award
Received the 2008 Best Dissertation Award from the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association for "The Implications of Unverifiable Fair-Value Accounting: Evidence from the Political Economy of Goodwill Accounting" (Ph.D. diss.,...
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- Apr 2014
- Lecture
Gilded Age Political Economy
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Gilded Age Political Economy." Brown University, April 2014.
- Summer 2019
- Article
Breaking Even: Political Economy and Private Enterprise in the Norwegian Glass Industry, 1739-1803
By: Rolv Petter Amdam, Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert
Using internal debates and surviving account books, this article traces the 18th-century history of the Norwegian glass industry, created to exploit Norway's immense natural resource wealth, and of the chartered company that would later become Norway's iconic...
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Keywords:
Glass Industry;
Natural Resources;
Profitability;
Political Economy;
Cameralism;
Liberalization;
Patriotism;
Profit;
Natural Environment;
Business History;
Norway
Amdam, Rolv Petter, Robert Fredona, and Sophus A. Reinert. "Breaking Even: Political Economy and Private Enterprise in the Norwegian Glass Industry, 1739-1803." Business History Review 93, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 275–317.
- 2023
- Book
The State and Capitalism in China
By: Meg Rithmire, Margaret M. Pearson and Kellee S. Tsai
This element explains China's political economic evolution from state socialist economy to a reform era state capitalism model to a more politicized, risk management approach we call "party-state capitalism." We emphasize the internal and external sources of perceived...
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Keywords:
China's Political Economy;
State Capitalism;
State-business Relations;
State Ownership;
Economic Systems;
Government and Politics;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Business and Government Relations;
China
Rithmire, Meg, Margaret M. Pearson, and Kellee S. Tsai. The State and Capitalism in China. Cambridge Elements, Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Research Summary
The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid
Despite its developmental justification, aid is deeply political. This paper examines the political economy of aid allocation first from the perspective of the donor country, and then the political economy of aid receipt and implementation from the perspective of... View Details
- September 2004
- Article
Capital Controls: A Political Economy Approach
By: Laura Alfaro
This paper examines the economic consequences of political conflicts that arise when countries implement capital controls. In an overlapping-generations model, agents vote on whether to open or close an economy to capital flows. The young (workers) receive income from...
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Keywords:
Economy;
Voting;
Conflict of Interests;
Capital;
Government and Politics;
Wages;
Saving;
Forecasting and Prediction
Alfaro, Laura. "Capital Controls: A Political Economy Approach." Review of International Economics 12, no. 4 (September 2004): 571–590.
- 16 Jan 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Political Economy of “Natural” Disasters
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by Charles Cohen & Eric D. Werker
- 2006
- Working Paper
The Political Economy of Capitalism
By: Bruce R. Scott
Scott, Bruce R. "The Political Economy of Capitalism." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-037, December 2006.
- 2018
- Book
New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy
By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert
This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end...
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Fredona, Robert and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- 04 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Political Economy of Anti-Bribery Enforcement
By: Lauren Cohen and Bo Li
This paper documents novel evidence on the influence of political incentives in the regulatory enforcement of foreign bribery. Using exogenous variation in the timing and geographic location of U.S. Congressional elections, we find that the probability of a Foreign...
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Keywords:
Bribery;
Regulatory Enforcement;
Crime and Corruption;
Governance Controls;
Political Elections
Cohen, Lauren, and Bo Li. "The Political Economy of Anti-Bribery Enforcement." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29624, December 2021.
- Spring 2020
- Article
Political Economy and the Medici
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
Reinert, Sophus A., and Robert Fredona. "Political Economy and the Medici." Business History Review 94 (Spring 2020): 125–177.
- 2013
- Introduction
The Political Economy of Empire
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Pernille Røge
Reinert, Sophus A., and Pernille Røge. "The Political Economy of Empire." Introduction to The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World, edited by Sophus A. Reinert and Pernille Røge, 1–7. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- February 1984
- Background Note
Note on Comparative Political Economy
Encarnation, Dennis J., III. "Note on Comparative Political Economy." Harvard Business School Background Note 384-161, February 1984.
- Article
On the Political Economy of Temporary Stabilization Programs
By: Laura Alfaro
This paper provides a political economy explanation for temporary exchange-rate-based stabilization programs by focusing on the distributional effects of real exchange-rate appreciation. I propose an economy in which agents are endowed with either tradable or...
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Keywords:
Government and Politics;
Economy;
Balance and Stability;
Programs;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Cash;
Value;
Distribution
Alfaro, Laura. "On the Political Economy of Temporary Stabilization Programs." Economics & Politics 14, no. 2 (July 2002): 133–161.
- February 2010 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
The Political Economy of Carbon Trading
By: Forest L. Reinhardt, J. Gunnar Trumbull, Mikell Hyman, Patia McGrath and Nazli Zeynep Uludere
Global climate change is an increasingly prominent political and business problem. Design of market-based systems to reduce carbon emissions has proven difficult. More broadly, national attempts to comply with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol present both...
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Keywords:
Policy;
International Relations;
Risk Management;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Business and Government Relations;
Natural Environment;
Pollutants;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Public Administration Industry
Reinhardt, Forest L., J. Gunnar Trumbull, Mikell Hyman, Patia McGrath, and Nazli Zeynep Uludere. "The Political Economy of Carbon Trading." Harvard Business School Case 710-056, February 2010. (Revised April 2011.)