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On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms

By: Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, Rohini Pande, Erica Field and Charity Troyer Moore
Can increasing control over earnings incentivize a woman to work, and thereby influence norms around gender roles? We randomly varied whether rural Indian women received bank accounts, training in account use, and direct deposit of public sector wages into their own... View Details
Keywords: Social Norms; Employment; Wages; Gender; Banks and Banking; Perception
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    How Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel

    When LSAPs are needed the most, simply bending the yield curve through purchasing government debt is not effective for stimulating the mortgage market (a key sector of the economy for the transmission of monetary policy). Purchasing mortgage-backed... View Details

    • 24 Aug 2021
    • News

    MBA Students are Barnstorming the Space Industry

    • March 2007 (Revised December 2007)
    • Background Note

    Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models

    By: Ray A. Goldberg, Laura Winig and Kerry Herman
    Provides successful models of private-public sector cooperatives in alleviating poverty and malnutrition. View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Nutrition; Cooperative Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Welfare
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    • 29 Oct 2014
    • Video

    Real Students Webinar: Surprising Paths to an MBA

      The Unlikely Environmentalists, Foreign Affairs, April 2020

      The Private sector can combat climate change. Mobilizing so called “universal investors” will be key. View Details
      • Jan 08 2019
      • Testimonial

      Keep Moving Forward

      • March 1998
      • Article

      An Assessment of the Performance of Indian State-Owned Enterprises

      By: Gautam Ahuja and Sumit K. Majumdar
      We examine the determinants of performance of 68 Indian state-owned enterprises in the manufacturing sector for a five-year period: 1987 to 1991. Relative performance is determined using data envelopment analysis, with variations in performance patterns subsequently... View Details
      Keywords: State-owned Enterprises; Economic Reform; Efficiency Analysis; Performance Efficiency; Privatization; Microeconomics; State Ownership; Manufacturing Industry; India
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      • 26 Mar 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS

      Keywords: by Katharina Janke, Carol Propper, and Raffaella Sadun; Health
      • 07 Jan 2009
      • News

      Czar Power

      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS

      By: Katharina Janke, Carol Propper and Raffaella Sadun
      Abstract Governments worldwide have sought to reform the delivery of public services by mimicking private sector governance models that grant CEOs greater autonomy and give them responsibility for meeting key government targets. We examine the effectiveness of this... View Details
      Keywords: CEOs; Management; Performance; Public Sector; Measurement and Metrics; Health Industry
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        Sizing Up Social Impact

        Quantifying results in the social sector comes down to the tricky work of measuring social good. View Details
        • 01 Feb 2017
        • What Do You Think?

        Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

        Summing Up: Should We Be Addressing the Next Jobs Crisis Now? An unusual proportion of respondents to this month’s column agreed either explicitly or implicitly on one thing: a looming service sector jobs crisis would dwarf anything we’ve... View Details
        Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
        • 2016
        • Working Paper

        Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can Private Forecasts Help?

        By: Jeffrey A. Frankel and Jesse Schreger
        Government forecasts of GDP growth and budget balances are generally more over optimistic than private sector forecasts. When official forecasts are especially optimistic relative to private forecasts ex ante, they are more likely also to be over optimistic relative to... View Details
        Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Macroeconomics
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        • 02 May 2009
        • News

        Electoral ATMs

        • 25 Feb 2019
        • News

        Impact investing: a new way to fund cures for cancer

        • March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
        • Case

        China: To Float or Not To Float? (D)- Bank of America's Strategic Investment in China Construction Bank

        By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
        With its $3 billion investment in Chinese state bank China Construction Bank, Bank of America--the second U.S. bank behind Citigroup in terms of assets and market capitalization--was one of several foreign banks directly participating in China's banking sector reform.... View Details
        Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Banks and Banking; Foreign Direct Investment; International Relations; Banking Industry; China; United States
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          Mahbubur Rahman

          Keywords: Finance
          • 2018
          • Working Paper

          The Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield Curves

          By: Robin Greenwood and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
          We document a strong effect of pension and insurance company (P&I) assets on the long end of the yield curve. Using data from 26 countries, the yield spread between 30-year and 10-year government bond yields is negatively related to the ratio of pension assets (in... View Details
          Keywords: Pension Funds; Investment Funds; Insurance; Assets; Interest Rates; Bonds
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          • 05 Sep 2017
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-based View

          Keywords: by Christian Ketels