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- 29 May 2018
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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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- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
look large and compelling. But it can have significant downsides. Leaders who prefer to zoom in tend to create policies and systems that depend too much on politics and favors. They can focus too closely on personal status and on turf...
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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
- 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
- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
categories were set by a strict rotation scheme, thereby mitigating the potentially confounding effect that they targeted only "hot" technology sectors. Prizes encouraged competition and medals were more important than monetary...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jul 2014
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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
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
complex. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/55314 August 2013 Journal of Monetary Economics Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—In...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
is essential to having a good social order. Should judges deserve an infinite amount, too? The notion that somehow the logic of a purely monetary conception of value could be transferred to business struck me as odd, especially in a...
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- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
Science (forthcoming) Abstract While monitoring and regulation can be used to combat socially costly unethical conduct, their intended targets are often able to avoid regulation or hide their behavior. This surrenders at least part of the effectiveness of regulatory...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
others,” Nwuneli said, according to a report in Nigeria’sThe Nation. A native Nigerian who lives in Lagos, Nwuneli noted the importance of “reimagining how our market is structured to allow social distancing, [and] thinking through our View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
of policy focus, that this was something that, for example, the data suggested every one pound spent in the British economy on apprenticeships returned 27 or 28 pounds. Right? Which is very rare as a government you get to make an...
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- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310052-PDF-ENG China 'Unbalanced' Diego Comin and Richard H.K. VietorHarvard Business School Case 711-010 : In 2010, Wen Jiabao looked back at the financial crisis with some satisfaction. Using aggressive fiscal and View Details
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countries as policy-makers face a difficult trade-off among three objectives: monetary policy autonomy, and stable fixed makers face a difficult trade-off among three objectives: View Details