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  • 09 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

customers by providing them adequate functionality in return for lower prices. The technology of this sort of disruptive innovation offers "good enough" performance along traditional metrics and is supported by a business model that generates attractive... View Details
Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

Financial Literacy, Financial Decisions, and the Demand for Financial Services: Evidence from India and Indonesia Authors:Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia Abstract Why is demand for formal financial services low in emerging... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

different economic systems. In particular, two equilibria might arise: one with low taxes and a belief that the income-generating process is "fair" because effort is important (an "American" equilibrium) and another... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

Kingdom's National Health Service. We show that low levels of structural closure (i.e., structural holes) in a change agent's network aid the initiation and adoption of changes that diverge from the institutional status quo but hinder the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

low and moderate income non-savers—and discusses the laws and regulations in the United States that largely prohibit their issuance. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16433   Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

industry and gradually spreading elsewhere. Small, state-owned enterprises were slimmed down under Premier Zhu Rongji--basically cut loose and left to go bankrupt and be restructured--while the government focused on larger enterprises. The transition to an... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

of people's daily lives, say Rangan and Chu of Harvard Business School and Petkoski of the World Bank. Start by dividing the base of the pyramid into three segments according to people's earnings and related personal needs: 1) Low income:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2017
  • Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

States, where the ability to fund infrastructure is less obvious than it may seem at first glance. The infrastructure paradox There is plenty of capital in the global financial system: upward of US $20 trillion invested in fixed income... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

  Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic states and state prices. In fixed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016

local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household income recovered by the unemployment benefit), we estimate that a one standard deviation increase in generosity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

that they click fewer advertisements, controlling for the number of advertisements they actually click. Results are most pronounced for commercial searches and for vulnerable users with low education and little online experience. Read the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

contrast, we don’t find evidence of a secular shift in the cross-country correlations of stock market volatility shocks, which have remained fairly low through time except during the financial crisis of 2009. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

School Note 811-016 This note discusses how some firms (start-ups and established companies) maximize customer value and profits via their pricing processes. It is aimed at companies that compete on the basis of performance initiatives rather than absolute cost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

newer technologies have been adopted faster than old ones. The cross-country variation in the adoption of technologies accounts for at least a quarter of per capita income differences. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

and Brooke Barton, 309-320. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007 Abstract After thirty years of development, commercial microfinance in the developing world—the provision of financial services to low income... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

Chile's largest wine producer faces a price versus value positioning problem. Its highest quality wines are not priced competitively at retail because "Made in Chile" connotes great value and low price. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

large private firms in the services sector. Rates of return also have remained stable over time and show low dispersion across sectors and across ownership groups within sectors. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

corruption per se does not prevent rapid economic development, although it does distort it. Modern Turkey has achieved great economic progress whatever the prevalence of corruption. World Bank data shows that Turkey’s per capita income... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

although they received significantly lower levels of labor income than their native born counterparts. Overall, the contribution of foreign born inventors to U.S. innovation was substantial, but we also find evidence of an immigrant... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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