Economies Of Scope - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jul 2022
News

Zeroing Out on Zero-COVID

08 Aug 2021
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Business Needs to Rethink Its Role in Politics

20 Nov 2020
News

The US State Department China Policy Paper: Hits and Misses

06 Nov 2016
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A SEAL And A Harvard Professor Walk Into A Room...

24 Jul 2019
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Is the U.S. on Its Way to Becoming a Cashless Society?

14 Aug 2017
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U.S. Cities Increasingly Focused on Resilience, but Funding Challenges Persist

26 Sep 2014
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How Food Stamps Fuel Entrepreneurship

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 10 Nov 2015
Webinars: Trending@HBS

Prospects for Shared Prosperity: Findings from the 2015 Alumni Survey on U.S. Competitiveness

Americas leading companies are thriving, but the prosperity they are producing is not being shared broadly among U.S. citizens. Professor Jan Rivkin will present the results of HBSs effort to gauge alumni opinions. View Details

02 Mar 2018
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Trump’s Tariffs Will Take Their Toll

16 Dec 2016
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Harder to Capture True U.S. Productivity

25 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

platforms, but new industries are also springing up around them; witness the multibillion-dollar ringtone business. To record the impact of software platforms on the economy and look to their future impact,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

02 Apr 2020
News

FinTechs Must Be Involved In Paycheck Protection Program Lending For Small Business

25 Aug 2018
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The Other Amazon Effect: How Prices Have Become Less Insulated From Supply Shocks

2022
Working Paper

Electoral Turnovers

By: Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons and Vincent Rollet

In most national elections, voters face a key choice between continuity and change. Electoral turnovers occur when the incumbent candidate or party fails to win reelection. To understand how turnovers affect national outcomes, we study the universe of presidential and... View Details

Keywords: Election Outcomes; Regression Discontinuity Design; Political Elections; Change; Global Range; Outcome or Result; Economy; Governance; Performance Improvement

18 Feb 2020
News

How Cryptocurrencies Should Be Regulated as Non-sovereign Fiat Currencies

17 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

http://www.nber.org/data/chat. We discuss the main aim of CHAT, its scope and limitations, as well as several ways in which we have used the data so far and ways to potentially use the data for other... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Fall 2016
Article

Global Talent Flows

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden and Christopher Parsons

The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Human Capital; Entrepreneurship; Global Range; Competency and Skills; Immigration