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- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
exploring the conditions under which investable tax credits may be the most effective mechanism to deliver a production subsidy and discusses the desirability of employing investable tax credits in other policy domains. Estimates of tax...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
who created the country's postapartheid economic blueprint, discussed both the progress made in the five years since the first democratic elections were held and the challenges to come. Chris Stals, governor of the South African Reserve Bank, spoke about View Details
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Susan Young
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
insight from behavioral economists and organizational consultants is also included. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52264 December 2016 Journal of Business and Policy Research Corporate Sponsorship in...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
image of masculinity with an unconventional one and then set out to prove the new image—revealing mistakes strategically, for example, or competing in displays of sensitivity. Instead, the goal of proving one's masculine credentials,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Publication:Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (spring 2011) Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
bottleneck. Historically, prize-based contests have had striking success in attracting unconventional individual who can overcome difficult challenges. To determine whether this approach could solve a real big-data biologic algorithm...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
Silverthorne: You write that Indonesia's 1980 nationalization of ITT's thirteen-year-old Indostat telecom business "marked the end of an era." What changed? Louis Wells: In the 1980s, a new attitude toward foreign investment swept the developing world. Old View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
significantly positive; on the other hand, the marginal effects of taxation for growth for a state at the 90th percentile of corruption are much lower across the board. We make progress towards causality through Granger-style tests and by considering periphery counties...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
and tight monetary policy. To illustrate our point, in the last half of 2007, 36% of all debt issues were bank loans. However, relative loan issuance fell to 8% by the first half of 2009, the lowest level in the period from 1990 to 2009....
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
Trap Tales: Outsmarting the 7 Hidden Obstacles to Success by David M.R. Covey (MBA 1994) and Stephan M. Mardyks (Wiley) This book is a guide to avoiding the seven obstacles to success that ensnare people every day. The authors offer counterintuitive strategies and...
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- 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4
and Why? Authors:Stephen Leider and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Journal of Transplantation 10 (May 2010): 1221-1227 Abstract The shortage of transplant kidneys has spurred debate about legalizing monetary payments to donors to increase the...
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Martha Lagace
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that are absent within countries: sovereign risk and the use of different currencies. International capital flows imply additional policy challenges for countries as policy-makers face a difficult trade-off among three objectives: View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
new fintech entrepreneurs, and banks—small and large—vying for a position. Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream grapples with the broad significance of small business to the economy, the historical role of credit markets, the dynamics of innovation cycles,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
professional services in the kind of apprenticeships we’re doing. I actually think America’s probably, though, only five years behind Britain on this. So one of the things that was crucial in the U.K. was the government decided they wanted to make this a core kind of...
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- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
(BRFSS) data on 2.3 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles, with implications for growth View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
monetary value.Photo: iStockPhoto However, not all forms of personal information exploitation are beneficial to consumers. Firms sometimes exploit personal information to better estimate customers' willingness to pay and to engage in...
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- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
option. The "unsorted" group had population-average preferences for working in the regime or the outside option. We find this sorting on this basis of institutional preferences doubled effort and the performance of solutions-controlling for skills, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
experiences over things. That appeal is broad-based.” Don’t break out the bubbly when a change in business policy results in an increase in your prestige. Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley and her colleague discovered that “unearned...
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- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
Brazilian companies studied it seems like the concentration of control was significantly lower before 1910 than what it is today. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-053.pdf Unconventional Insights for Managing...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a small monetary margin on each pack sold, a large margin, and...
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Carmen Nobel