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- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
economic harm that system operators could prevent or mitigate. Although the legal system can respond, regulations have mixed results. I examine the applicable legal rules that constrain online fraud and the economic underpinnings to...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
earnings growth by 6%. Consistent with the hypothesis that this effect derives from the local demand channel, we find that consumption is less responsive to local labor demand shocks in counties with more generous benefits. Our analysis finds that the local View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
directly estimate the practical capacity of the resources supplied as a percentage of the theoretical capacity. There are various ways to do this. As a rule of thumb, you could simply assume that practical full capacity is 80 percent to...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
Panama Canal was the Battle of Guadalcanal and the United States had the initiative at Guadalcanal, and could therefore choose when it wanted to attack. Shutting down the Panama Canal for a year would have raised the fiscal cost of the...
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- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
establishing some stylized facts about the fine-grained structure of large, real-world technical systems. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2277795 Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz...
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Anna Secino
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
The dot-com boom of the 1990s had changed the rules of business forever, it seemed; all you needed was a sexy IPO, cold nerve, and the magic carpet of momentum trading. But even as entrepreneurs and venture capitalists were dismissing...
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- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
too narrow, or underconfident. When combining probability forecasts, users need to adjust for those individual tendencies. Measuring accuracy and tracking performance are crucial to improving forecasts. Just as there are different methods to combine forecasts, there...
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- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World...
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- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
financial crisis, but they may be hard to get rid of. The Washington political system struggles to deal with this gigantic fiscal challenge, and—no surprise—large tax increases and large expenditure reductions are not high on politicians'...
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by Staff
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
will be critical to their success. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51813 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51574 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
was roughly half as large as prior estimates have suggested. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55509 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50814 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
billions of dollars annually licensing patents for its code-division multiple access (CDMA) technology, which is the heart of several mobile communication standards. Standards bodies often act as regulators, setting rules in order to...
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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
shareholders as well as other interested stakeholders with rather elaborate information on the company's operations and strategic activities during the preceding fiscal year. However, in the last two decades and in addition to these...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
disappointment and dissatisfaction? And yet, the aging workforces of developed countries around the world have created long-term fiscal challenges that are forcing their governments to address this issue now. Take the situation in the...
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- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
protect local businesses from the crushing competition of "big-box" stores. But it turns out such rules often backfire, according to research by Raffaella Sadun, an assistant professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business...
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- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
Mexican history, he found a common thread running through the country's various shifts of power: reliance on a third party to enforce the rules (such as property rights) that make it possible to do business. A Stake In The Game Porfirio...
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by Julia Hanna
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
the private—sector, a way out should be easier to arrange even at the cost of bending the rules somewhat once again. But as long as European leaders look at the next local election and their own domestic political interest rather than the...
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- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
other distortions measured in the literature. The second uncertain policy we consider concerns marginal tax rates. We obtain similar results once we adjust for the impact of tax rates on income. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-083.pdf On The...
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Martha Lagace