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      Spatial Agglomeration and Superstar Firms

      By: Laura Alfaro
      We characterize the agglomeration patterns of industries and plants in Europe, distinguishing Eurozone countries and the United States. Using a micro-level index, we quantify the degree of geographic concentration in industrial activities and explore how firm... View Details
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      State-Business Relations

      By: Meg Rithmire
      In Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia (Oxford University Press, 2023) and related papers, I examine the political foundations and economic effects of different patterns of state-business relations in authoritarian regimes with a... View Details
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      Strategy and Technology

      By: David B. Yoffie

      Professor Yoffie’s research examines different aspects of strategy and technology. His most recent research has focused on three areas. The first research topic looks at the dynamics of cooperation and competition among “complements.” In a number of articles and... View Details

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      Strength of Incentives

      By: Jerry R. Green
      When economists analyze the incentive properties of decision making systems they assume that all economic agents are capable of optimizing their decisions and that they respond without error to the incentives that the system creates. In this project, Jerry R. Green... View Details
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      Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance

      By: Laura Alfaro
      We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world... View Details
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      Sustainable Inner-City Economic Development

      By: Michael E. Porter
      Michael E. Porter is using the framework he developed in The Competitive Advantage of Nations to examine the economic development problems in distressed inner-city areas. He seeks to understand the potential of inner-city businesses, government policies, and... View Details
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      The Baby Business: How Markets are Changing the Future of Birth

      By: Debora L. Spar
      It is difficult to conceive of the child as commerce. For even at the start of the 21st century, we like to believe that some things remain beyond both markets and science; that there are some things that money can't buy. In economic terms, these things are defined as... View Details
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      The Competitive Advantage of Nations and Regions

      By: Michael E. Porter
      Michael E. Porter continues to extend his study first reported in The Competitive Advantage of Nations. Porter has published books and studies of other countries, states, and cities, including Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,... View Details
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      The Economics of Digitization

      By: Shane M. Greenstein

      What is the value of digital platforms that build on user-generated content? How well do existing frameworks explain the value of these businesses? While drawing on prior work, this research stream examines new issues in parts of the economy that previously were... View Details

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      The Economics of Enterprise IT

      By: Shane M. Greenstein

      Why do some organizations adopt new information systems while others do not? Why do some face high costs while others do not? Professor Greenstein has been pursuing this stream of research throughout his career, analyzing the factors shaping the costs of acquiring... View Details

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      The Equilibrium Concept in Game Theory

      By: Elon Kohlberg
      Elon Kohlberg is studying the foundations of the equilibrium concept in game theory, which is to the study of economic systems what the notion of "equilibrium of forces" is to the study of mechanical systems. Although much of economic theory can be viewed in... View Details
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      The Evolution of Financial Services in the United States

      By: Robin Greenwood, Robert Ialenti and David Scharfstein
      This article surveys the literature on the historical growth and transformation of the U.S. financial sector. The sector expanded rapidly between 1980 until 2006, when its contribution to GDP rose from 4.8% to 7.6%. After the Global Financial Crisis, the size of the... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Institutions; Financial Markets; Growth and Development; Economic Sectors
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      Greenwood, Robin, Robert Ialenti, and David Scharfstein. "The Evolution of Financial Services in the United States." Annual Review of Financial Economics (forthcoming).
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      The Fragile State of the World: Unfairness, Discontent, and Global Capitalism

      By: Rawi E. Abdelal
      In this project, Abdelal explores the varieties of domestic discontent that undermine the stability of global capitalism. Discontent has manifested itself in the rise of populist movements and parties on both the Left and the Right, thereby weakening the Center. The... View Details
      Keywords: Globalization; Populism; Inequality; Fairness; Geopolitics
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      The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms

      By: Laura Alfaro
      The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of... View Details
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      The Origins, Current State, and Future of Capitalism

      By: Sophus A. Reinert
      Starting with the dawn of market capitalism in Renaissance Italy, Professor Reinert works at the intersection of economic ideas, policies, and practices in history, particularly as seen through the lens of national strategies in international competition. He seeks to... View Details
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      The Value Profit Chain: Treat Employees Like Customers and Customers Like Employees

      By: W. Earl Sasser
      W. Earl Sasser, Jr., Leonard A. Schlesinger, and James L. Heskett complted a multi-firm study that provides further empirical verification of relationships established in their earlier examinations of 'breakthrough' service and the service profit chain.... View Details
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      Understanding the Drivers and Limits of Corporate Growth

      By: Gary P. Pisano

      Perhaps no issues garners more attention of senior executives and Boards of Directors than growth.  Yet, the underlying factors shaping and limiting corporate growth are poorly understood.  Empirically, we know that some corporations grow much faster than... View Details

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      US-China Relations

      By: Meg Rithmire
      Economic interdependence between the US and China was imagined years ago to be a source of security and prosperity for both countries, but is now the site of concerns about risk and national security on both sides. My work has examined how that shift has come about,... View Details
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      Venture Capital and Private Equity (MBA)

      By: Archie L. Jones

      The growth of private equity internationally has been dramatic, to the point that the asset class has been both lauded as the savior and vilified as the cause of our current economic malaise. Over the past two decades, private equity- ranging from venture... View Details

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      Venture Capital and Private Equity (MBA)

      By: Josh Lerner

      The growth of private equity internationally has been dramatic, to the point that the asset class has been both lauded as the savior and vilified as the cause of our current economic malaise. Over the past two decades, private equity- ranging from venture capital to... View Details

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