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- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
percent are in the developing world. The first part of this paper explores the economics of HIV and treatment from a social marketing perspective. The second part of the paper uses three specific case histories of successful social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
children and a man serves as the village director, but in the United States that kind of model is seen as sexist," she says. "In fact, gender-based hiring is illegal here. Modifications need to be made if SOS children's villages are going to receive wider acceptance by... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 8, no. 1 (July 2008) Abstract We test the robustness of behavior in dictator games by offering allocators the choice to play an unattractive lottery. With this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016
drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? I draw from extensive personal interaction and correspondence with nearly fifty former executives as well as research in psychology, criminology, and economics to investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
Competition Policy International Whither Uber? Competitive Dynamics in Transportation Networks By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Transportation Network Companies offer notable service advances—but do they comply with the law? And if not,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
2017 Washington, DC: American Public Health Association Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management By: Howitt, Arnold M., Dutch Leonard, and David W. Giles, eds. Abstract—This book provides detailed accounts of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising
presides over the epicenter of Athens—looking out over Hellenic Parliament on one corner and Syntagma Square on the other—has been witnessing the capital’s highs and lows since 1842. Protesters took hammers to the hotel’s white marble steps in 2015 and hurled hunks of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016
units up to the contract quantity selected in the previous period. We prove that in each period and at each such stage, there are three base-stock levels that characterize an optimal policy, two for the inventory policy and one for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
of the MBA Program before focusing his research on how large institutional investors make decisions about social issues. (He also worked simultaneously at a small church in Somerville, Massachusetts.) With DBA in hand, from 1989 to 1996, he taught ethics and public... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
practices along the way. High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences edited by Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner University of Chicago Press Immigration policy... View Details
- 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 was the result of a suite of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
forthcoming Economic Journal (Royal Economic Society) Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France By: Pons, Vincent, and Guillaume Liegey Abstract—Improving the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
spending needs as well as economic factors such as rising interest rates that affect different assets in different ways. Viceira's research analyzes asset allocation strategies for personal and institutional investors. He teaches... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
made to bear the full cost of that decision. So that's another indirect way whereby we can use our economic influence to help businesses and individuals make proper, fully, risk-aware decisions. DM: But it also sounds like there's a point... View Details
- 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007
Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how both the entry rate and the distribution of entry sizes for new startups responded to changes in banking competition. Moreover, we distinguish the relative effect of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Master's in Leadership program, and a Senior Policy Scholar at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. Tinsley is an expert on gender intelligent leadership, gender parity and workforce development, negotiations, and... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51996 forthcoming Quarterly Journal of Economics Catering to Investors Through Security Design: Headline Rate and Complexity By: Célérier, Claire, and Boris Vallée... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
2017 Annual Review of Economics Agricultural Insurance and Economic Development By: Cole, Shawn A., and Wentao Xiong Abstract—This article provides a review of recent research on agricultural insurance (AI)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
particularly the weak level of protection afforded by the California courts), it was unclear how effective a policy of aggressive litigation would be. Furthermore, such a policy might reduce Xerox's ability... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner