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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
in all cases that we consider, the welfare gains of using optimal capital taxes are small. Download the paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w16619 A Behavioral Model of Demandable Deposits and Its Implications for Financial Regulation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
research shows that in the 10 cities with the largest Airbnb market share in the US, the entry of Airbnb resulted in 1.3 percent fewer hotel nights booked and a 1.5 percent loss in hotel revenue. The paper, The Welfare Effects of Peer...
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- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
Back-of-the-envelope welfare estimates indicate that the 3.9% increase in patent grants at the USPTO could potentially create $1.16 billion in value for the U.S. economy. Southern Responses to Gold Certification: Cooperate, Compete,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
other words, the incumbent must be willing to cannibalize its own brick-and-mortar business by charging a low online price. We also discuss some social welfare implications of retail online entry and the managerial insights of our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
the scenes that really stuck with me was in 1942. Your father joins the Merchant Marines and then he's immediately called into service, because we're in the middle of World War II at that point. And then he left you with the Catholic View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
Mexico's overall prosperity, this is pretty small potatoes." And foreign investment is no substitute for domestic investment in institutions such as education, the judicial system, and health and social welfare programs. A system of...
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by Julia Hanna
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-067.pdf Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences Author: Hanna W. Halaburda Abstract This paper investigates the causes and welfare consequences of unravelling in two-sided...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to be economically substantial and the optimal rule to not entail a countercyclical fiscal policy. A simple debt...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
taking in the U.S. is inconclusive. The evidence for and social welfare implications of claimed effects such as fewer IPOs or loss of foreign listings are unclear. Financial reporting quality appears to have gone up after SOX, but...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
elasticity is two, optimal rates fall to 0.6% on average and 1.6% on high earners. Nevertheless, in all cases that we consider, the welfare gains of using optimal capital taxes are small. Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
companies tend to look out for the welfare of their employees in such an effective fashion. The impact of this at the national level can be seen from the Japanese people's response to previous crises, including the earthquake in Kobe in...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers for HPE compared the lives of two people with autism living on their own—one in Dandelion, one not. The person not in the program collects $16,838 a year in government welfare benefits, while the one in...
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Jennifer Myers
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
of 2.5 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 policy and our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
The changes are isolated to firms relatively closer to default. The ruling was also followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in covenant use. Finally, we estimate the welfare implications of this change and find that...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a globalized information and entertainment industry...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
a variety of measures, including tolls, to shelter local enterprises from competition. They are motivated by the need to protect the local tax base. Without it, local officials stand to lose a major source of revenue needed to pay their own salaries and fund local...
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- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
deposits from one intermediary to another. Regulatory policies, including deposit insurance, minimum capital requirements, and restrictions on the assets held by depository institutions can increase the ex ante welfare of depositors. ...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
low-income parents than existing U.S. tax policy. The optimal policy increases the probability that low-income children move up the economic ladder, generating a present-value welfare gain of 1.28% of consumption in our baseline case....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
compatibility can thus increase asymmetry between the platform owners’ profit foci and, given a sufficiently large difference in the standalone utilities, yields greater profits for both platform owners. We further show that social View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
difference in the standalone utilities is sufficiently large, yields greater profits for both platforms. We further show that social welfare is greater under one-way compatibility than under incompatibility, and there exist no incentives...
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Sean Silverthorne