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- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
of employer-sponsored insurance—$4,500 in 2011. Absent the requirement that healthy people buy insurance, it is likely that the individual insurance market will consist primarily of sick people. They will have $ 4,500 to buy a policy with... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55694 forthcoming Journal of Monetary Economics U.S. Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles By: Bräuning, Falk, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract— Foreign banks’ lending to firms in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24
Lakshmi, Xin Meng, Nancy Qian, and Xiaoxue Zhao Abstract—This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the demand for labor in the infant private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
process? I think that these sorts of scenarios, along with doubts about the effectiveness of recent US foreign policy decisions regarding Syria and Iran, have had a negative effect on how we're viewed by business and government leaders in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
wasn't just a school - it was a business, where one could apply business concepts such as fiscal management and marketing strategies. However, he also had to remember that a nonprofit was a very different kind of operation from most... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Publications August 2013 The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal By: Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton Abstract—In this paper we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4
market based on free riding produce high-quality products? Third, from a public policy perspective, does the mandatory sharing of enhancements raise or lower consumer surplus and industry profits? We develop a two-sided model of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
advisor to Liberian president and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a 1971 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, wrote the policy memorandum at the request of the Liberian government, which seeks fast growth of its own. To... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
Authors:David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 11 (November 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/11/kfcs-radical-approach-to-china/ar/1 Tax Policy and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
externality and technology diffusion play a particularly important role in multinationals' offshore agglomeration. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1524857 Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? Evidence from Trade Policy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
value, and lost another 10.6% on Tuesday. These are no mere "paper" losses. The drop represents a significant loss of wealth which could unleash further deflationary pressures--a phenomenon Japan's on-again, off-again economy has been fighting for almost two... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
vantage point, not in sight here. I don’t see it. And I’m most troubled by that. Push and pull marketing to build public support John A. Quelch, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration and professor in health policy and... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
using, respectively, pre-migration settlements and their interaction with MSA geographic characteristics that affect the cost of moving to the suburbs. I find that black in-migration imposed a strong, negative fiscal externality on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
politics. "It had extremely high inflation rates and extremely low economic growth rates." But then two things happened, says Domínguez: First, the government began enacting serious reforms—the kind of fiscal and public View Details
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
sources of political risk: macroeconomic and policy turbulence, excessive bureaucracy, political instability, corruption, and violence. Employing NVivo coding, marked regional differences were identified. Macroeconomic and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
transition. [Mandela awarded honorary degree from Harvard.] Mandela and his colleagues have emphasized deficit reduction, privatization, and fiscal conservatism, and the results of their policies are now... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2
mitigation policies within its supply chain and in government policy. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/caesars-entertainment-betting-on-sustainability/ Working Papers Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
will be a natural counterbalance to the slowdown in industry. Second, China is in good shape from a fiscal standpoint. They have a budget deficit target of 2.3 percent this year, but are currently in surplus. Third, they still have... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
As today's fiscal deficit and dragging economy continue to cast long shadows, it's easy to forget much darker times in American history. Shortly after winning its independence from Great Britain, the United States was bankrupt. Individual... View Details