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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 large firms significantly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
order too, with China's GDP rising to half that of the U.S. by 2013 and the IMF's Special Drawing Rights replacing the dollar as the international reserve currency. Ferguson analyzes the roots of the crisis as well as the measures taken...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
(2011), idiosyncratic shocks to the sales growth of large firms are positively and significantly correlated with GDP growth in our emerging markets sample. Relatedly, the negative impact of exchange rate shocks has a more acute impact on...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015
people from higher social class countries (as indexed by GDP per capita) had lower levels of internationalism—that is, they made more friendships domestically than abroad. Publisher's link:...
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- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
GDP growth hitting a peak of 7.5% in 2010. However, the high cost of conducting business in Brazil, known as "Custo Brasil," was hurting domestic manufacturing, while incoming foreign investments threatened to overwhelm...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
"some 12 to 15 percent of GDP in Europe was public sector enterprise," he said. But all that began to change in the early 1980s amid loud cries of inefficiency, as markets opened up and governments sought sources of revenue....
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- 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 averaging over 15%. Chongqing's growth...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
3.8% of GDP (the Congressional Budget Office's most likely scenario) to just over 1%. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/03/macroeconomic-policy-and-us-competitiveness/ar/1 Entry into Platform-based Markets Author:Feng Zhu and Marco...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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 scale just by people wanting...
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- 17 May 2010
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What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
company, especially during reorganizations. The legal system protected creditors strongly. That is why I found that the corporate bond market as a percentage of GDP (a common measure of the development of these markets) was higher in 1910...
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- 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16
http://hbr.org/product/3d-systems/an/614035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-010 Cyprus (A) Cyprus is a small Mediterranean island located at the crossroads of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Since its 1974 split, Cyprus has grown real View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
experience has been a mixed blessing. In Argentina, liberalization and opening to the world in the 1990s first produced growth, and then instability as the Asian financial crisis impacted the country. At the turn of the century a wholesale banking crisis resulted in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2
Double-Digit Growth Experiences By: Werker, Eric D Abstract—This extended memorandum identifies episodes of sustained double-digit growth in real GDP, defined as a compound annual growth rate of 10% or more over a period of 8 years or longer. Using a measure of real...
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Anna Secino
- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
in Peru This case follows Enfoca, Peru’s largest local private equity firm and its portfolio company Maestro, a leading player in Peru’s hardware retail market. Peru’s GDP growth between 2008 and 2014 was the highest of any Latin American...
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Dina Gerdeman