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- 16 Oct 2012
- News
On Marriage, Kidneys and the Economics Nobel
- 29 Sep 2014
- Other Presentation
Reshaping Regional Economic Development: Clusters and Regional Strategy
Professor Michael Porter delivered a keynote speech at Mapping the Midwest's Future, a conference held in Minneapolis and hosted by the University of Minnesota that officially launched the new U.S. Cluster Mapping tool. His presentation focused on U.S. competitiveness... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Reshaping Regional Economic Development: Clusters and Regional Strategy." Mapping the Midwest's Future, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and University of Minnesota, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Minneapolis, MN, September 29, 2014.
- 2010
- Book
The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development
By: Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman
Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source, while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is rigorous economic analysis and systematic... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Economic Growth; Policy; Government and Politics; Open Source Distribution; Software
Lerner, Josh, and Mark Schankerman. The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development. MIT Press, 2010.
- 2020
- Chapter
Foreign Direct Investment, Finance and Economic Development
By: Laura Alfaro and Jasmina Chauvin
Research has sought to understand how foreign direct investment affects host economies. This paper reviews the empirical literature, specifically addressing the question: How does FDI affect economic development of host countries and what is the role of local financial... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Condition; Development Economics
Alfaro, Laura, and Jasmina Chauvin. "Foreign Direct Investment, Finance and Economic Development." In Encyclopedia of International Economics and Global Trade, Vol. 1: Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Enterprise, edited by Mariana Spatareanu, 231–258. World Scientific, 2020.
- November 2011 (Revised May 2012)
- Background Note
Global Economic Prospect: A précis
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Economics of Structured Finance
By: Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
Coval, Joshua D., Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford. "The Economics of Structured Finance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-060, October 2008.
- 06 Oct 2014
- News
New tool maps economic clusters
- 05 Jun 2009
- News
Michael Porter on Inner-City Economics
- 07 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
- 21 Feb 2014
- News
Why Rational People Can’t Succeed as Economic Forecasters
- July 2022
- Teaching Plan
Wellthy: The Economics of Caring
By: Brian Trelstad
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 320-028. In 2014, Lindsay Jurist-Rosner (MBA ’09) founded Wellthy, a B2C business that coordinates care for working professionals seeking help to support loved ones with chronic diseases or aging parents. With personal experience as a... View Details
- 2017
- Working Paper
Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management
By: Luke C.D. Stein and Charles C.Y. Wang
In the presence of managerial short-termism and asymmetric information about skill and effort provision, firms may opportunistically shift earnings from uncertain to more certain times. We document empirically that when financial markets are less certain about a firm's... View Details
Keywords: Discretionary Accruals; Uncertainty; Implied Volatility; Earnings Response Coefficient; Risk and Uncertainty; Earnings Management; Financial Markets
Stein, Luke C.D., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-103, March 2016. (Revised April 2017.)
- Website
Data Sources: Economics of Digitization
By: Shane Greenstein
Greenstein, Shane. Data Sources: Economics of Digitization. https://economicsofdigitization.hackpad.com/Data-sources-economics-of-digitization-8LSKSVZ38oR.
- 2015
- Book
Handbook of Experimental Economic Methodology
By: Guillaume R. Frechette and Andrew Schotter
Frechette, Guillaume R. and Andrew Schotter, eds. Handbook of Experimental Economic Methodology. Oxford University Press, 2015.
- 05 Jan 2014
- News
Offbeat Dispatches From Economic Summit
- 28 Sep 2012
- News
The economics of video games
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Economic Report of the President
- 31 Jul 2023
- HBS Conference
Future of AI and Economics
- 2010
- Working Paper
The Economic Crisis and Medical Care Usage
By: Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel Schneider and Peter Tufano
We use a unique, nationally representative cross-national dataset to document the reduction in individuals' usage of routine non-emergency medical care in the midst of the economic crisis. A substantially larger fraction of Americans have reduced medical care than have... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Health Care and Treatment; France; Germany; Great Britain; Canada; United States
Lusardi, Annamaria, Daniel Schneider, and Peter Tufano. "The Economic Crisis and Medical Care Usage." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-079, March 2010.