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  • 25 Aug 2015
  • News

Sunset in the East?

population doubled from 500 million to 1 billion. There was and is—in terms of quality of property—still some catch-up to do. It’s said that China is in a better position than the developed world to elongate the business cycle using fiscal and View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Real Estate; Health, Social Assistance
  • 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 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

problems associated with the profit measures by directing managerial attention to activities that have longer-term consequences on firm performance. Publisher's link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1911-3846.2012.01178.x/abstract August 2013 Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

outcome of that deep ambivalence within the Russian political elite has been a real inconsistency of foreign economic policies toward the region. One can see that, certainly, in its policies towards the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jul 2014
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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
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

Monetary Economics Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm-Level Evidence By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

men from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID), the model accurately fits entry patterns into self-employment by age. The option value of returning to paid work is found to constitute a substantial portion of the monetary value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/2/3/257/pdf Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate Authors:Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Organ donations from deceased donors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2011
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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
  • 11 Jun 2013
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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
  • 02 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 2, 2009

recipients, we find that all types of poor subjects are worse off. Our results suggest that the effects of truth-in-giving policies are highly responsive to recipient heterogeneity and biased against more generous giving. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7

way without compromising the ability of conventional monetary policy to focus on its traditional dual mandate of promoting maximum employment and stable prices. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
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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
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

critical role in university admissions across the world. A key question is whether imposing penalties for wrong answers on these exams deters guessing from women more than men, disadvantaging female test takers. We consider data from a large-scale, high-stakes View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Nov 2017
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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
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Back to the Future

ON THE PRIZE: U.S. dependency on Middle East oil will be long term, Stobaugh says; about one-fifth of U.S. imports are from the region. YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Energy Future argues that U.S. energy policy should focus on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 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
  • 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