Filter Results:
(11,090)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(11,090)
- People (16)
- News (2,279)
- Research (7,099)
- Events (157)
- Multimedia (105)
- Faculty Publications (5,603)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(11,090)
- People (16)
- News (2,279)
- Research (7,099)
- Events (157)
- Multimedia (105)
- Faculty Publications (5,603)
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
accomplishment from both sides of the Charles. "Robert Merton has been an innovative leader in the field of economic valuations and in improving the capacity to manage financial risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine. "This is a... View Details
- 2011
- Chapter
The Economics of Housing Finance Reform
By: David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam
This paper analyzes the two leading types of proposals for reform of the housing finance system: (i) broad-based, explicit, priced government guarantees of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and (ii) privatization. Both proposals have drawbacks. Properly-priced... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Housing; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics
Scharfstein, David S., and Adi Sunderam. "The Economics of Housing Finance Reform." In The Future of Housing Finance: Restructuring the U.S. Residential Mortgage Market, edited by Martin Neil Baily. Brookings Institution Press, 2011.
- Article
Survivorship and the Economic Grim Reaper
By: George P. Baker and Robert E. Kennedy
Keywords: Economics
Baker, George P., and Robert E. Kennedy. "Survivorship and the Economic Grim Reaper." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 18, no. 2 (October 2002).
- summer 1981
- Article
Blockbusters: The Economics of Mass Entertainment
By: David A. Garvin
Garvin, David A. "Blockbusters: The Economics of Mass Entertainment." Journal of Cultural Economics (summer 1981).
- August 1985
- Case
Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981
By: Michael G. Rukstad and Nancy F. Koehn
Rukstad, Michael G., and Nancy F. Koehn. "Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981." Harvard Business School Case 386-038, August 1985.
- 26 Jul 2008
- Other Presentation
Competitiveness: Creating a Mongolian Economic Strategy
Competitiveness presentation delivered in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Competitiveness: Creating a Mongolian Economic Strategy." World Bank, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 26, 2008.
- 2010
- Book
A History of Irish Economic Thought
For a country that can boast a distinguished tradition of political economy from Sir William Petty through Swift, Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke, and Cantillon through to that of Longfield, Cairnes, Bastable, Edgeworth, Geary, and Gorman, it is surprising that no... View Details
Boylan, Thomas, Renee Prendergast, and John Turner, eds. A History of Irish Economic Thought. London: Routledge, 2010.
- December 2001 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Argentine Paradox: The, Economic Growth and the Populist Tradition
By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
Describes the political and economic development in Argentina from 1900 to 1989, with a focus on the role of Peron and populism. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Di Tella, Rafael M., and Ingrid Vogel. "Argentine Paradox: The, Economic Growth and the Populist Tradition." Harvard Business School Case 702-001, December 2001. (Revised March 2004.)
- 29 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity
In April, the World Health Organization released a groundbreaking study that established a definitive link between mental health and economic productivity. The findings were both depressing and hopeful. On the downside, depression and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Sep 1992
- Lecture
Economic Strategies for a Global Economy
By: W. Carl Kester
Kester, W. Carl. "Economic Strategies for a Global Economy." Lecture at the United States Senate, hearings of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary (Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Delaware, Chairman), U.S.Senate, Washington, D.C., September 23, 1992. (Provided testimony concerning capital investment, corporate governance, cost of capital, and the international competitiveness of the U.S. economy.)
- 04 Dec 2013
- News
Economic Prediction Made Us (Too) Comfortable With Capitalism
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Ideas with Economic and Social Impact
Corporation (IFC) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Her report, Financing High-Growth Firms, the Role of Angel Investors, written for and published by the OECD in 2011, has attracted interest from... View Details
- August 2014
- Article
The New Empirical Economics of Management
By: Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen
Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review... View Details
Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen. "The New Empirical Economics of Management." Journal of the European Economic Association 12, no. 4 (August 2014): 835–876.
- 2016
- Book
Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government
By: Rosario Patalano and Sophus A. Reinert
Little is known of Antonio Serra except that he wrote his extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes That Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail and that he died there soon afterwards. However, the... View Details
Patalano, Rosario and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government. Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- 05 Nov 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts
- 8 Mar 2005
- Other Presentation
Armenian Competitiveness: Towards a Strategy for Economic Development
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Prosperity," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2004-05 (World Economic Forum, 2004); "Clusters and the New Competitive... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Armenian Competitiveness: Towards a Strategy for Economic Development." Armenia 2020 Summit, Cambridge, MA, United States, March 8, 2005.
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
intriguing new book Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle (Twelve), written by Dan Senor (MBA ’01) and Saul Singer, a columnist at the Jerusalem Post. Most Israelis in their late teens serve several years in the elite... View Details
- 17 Aug 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Empirical Economics of Online Attention
- 2019
- Chapter
The Economic Turn in Enlightenment Europe
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Steven L. Kaplan
Reinert, Sophus A., and Steven L. Kaplan. "The Economic Turn in Enlightenment Europe." In The Economic Turn: Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe, edited by Steven L. Kaplan and Sophus A. Reinert, 1–34. London: Anthem Press, 2019.
- June 2013
- Article
Opting-in: Participation Bias in Economic Experiments
By: Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang, Ellen Garbarino and Danielle Merrett
Assuming individuals rationally decide whether to participate or not to participate in lab experiments, we hypothesize several non-representative biases in the characteristics of lab participants. We test the hypotheses by first collecting survey and experimental data... View Details
Slonim, Robert, Carmen Wang, Ellen Garbarino, and Danielle Merrett. "Opting-in: Participation Bias in Economic Experiments." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 90 (June 2013): 43–70.