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- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
firms ushered in increasingly accommodating policies to attract and retain staff. Turnover rates steadily decreased, while compensation expectations increased. This has fundamentally challenged the long-standing “up or out” model: As... View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
rupiah and the Brazilian real. A common cause of these price movements is shifts, or expected shifts, in US monetary policy. The United States is still the big gorilla in the global currency field, and when View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
House of Representatives on September 10, 2009. The subject of the hearing: "The World Bank's Disclosure Policy Review, and the Role of Democratic Participatory Processes in Achieving Successful Development Outcomes." [Webcast]... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
Africa by 2010. The announcement raised questions whether debt relief would really help the poor. By examining past aid trends and policies of multilateral institutions, such as the International Monetary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
Asked which institutions must be in place in order for African countries to grow, experts on a panel at the Africa Business Conference had no shortage of suggestions. One panelist, representing the International Monetary Fund, voted for a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
and Matthew C. Weinzierl Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences, there is a specific pattern of economic transmission whereby demand-side shocks propagate upstream (to input-supplying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
ability distributions as endogenous to current taxes. We model this endogeneity, calibrate the model to match estimates of the intergenerational transmission of earnings ability in the United States, and use the model to simulate optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
techniques for changing individual behavior in pursuit of policy objectives. The types of “nudge” interventions that governments are now adopting alter people’s decisions without coercion or significant changes to economic incentives. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
As the quantity of online content continues to proliferate—from cute cat videos to policy experts blogging on the Middle East—the consumer's expectation that online content should be free becomes more entrenched. To make money, websites... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
amendment meant to broaden the scope and accessibility of democracy called for the creation of directly elected local councils at the district, intermediate, and village levels, and mandated that one-third of all council seats be filled by women. The amendment is an... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
This note describes the development and the current state of the inventory-based lending industry. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/612057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-073 Monetary View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
United States. The company just signed a memorandum of understanding with three Indonesian state-owned enterprises: PT INUKI (nuclear technology), PT PLN (electrical transmission and distribution) and PT Pertamina (oil and gas), all... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Sustaining Innovation When Outsourcing Components in Multi-technology, Multi-component Systems Authors:Ian Mackenzie and Casimer DeCusatis Publication:Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice (forthcoming) Abstract Firms producing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
actually lead to cheating as a side effect," Gino says. "So the idea is to maybe revise those policies in terms of prevention so that they could trigger [ethical behavior]." In yet another experiment, the researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
share of ARMs were more responsive to lower interest rates and saw a relative decline in defaults and an increase in house prices, car purchases, and employment. Household balance sheets and mortgage contract rigidity are important for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
some risks and its politics will remain opaque and confusing to outsiders attempting to do business there." Is Foreign Investment Enough? NAFTA offers another insight into the economies of Mexico and other developing nations. In the working paper "Was NAFTA... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
World Bank, and International Monetary Fund, and he hopes that examining the role of FDI in these four Asian economies, in addition to the work he did on China, will stimulate further academic and policy... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
agreed: "The main reason for the rising inequality is that Free Trade has encouraged/required manufacturing to be offshored and outsourced If we replaced the Free Trade policies with a Balanced Trade policy, using (import licences)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett