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  • 07 Feb 2017
  • News

How Immigrants Have Contributed to American Inventiveness

  • September 2012
  • Article

The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures

By: Anke Becker, Thomas Deckers, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk and Fabian Kosse
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review, we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality, such... View Details
Keywords: Risk Preference; Time Preference; Social Preferences; Locus Of Control; Big Five; Economics; Behavior; Personal Characteristics
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  • 24 Apr 2012
  • News

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus Inspires Students at Harvard Business School

  • March 2004
  • Article

Inflation, Inflation Variability, and Corruption

By: Miguel Braun and Rafael Di Tella
We present a model where agents can inflate the cost of goods needed to start an investment project and inflation variability increases monitoring costs. We show that inflation variability can lead to higher corruption and lower investment. We document a positive... View Details
Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Crime and Corruption
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Space, the Final Economic Frontier

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
After decades of centralized control of economic activity in space, NASA and U.S. policymakers have begun to cede the direction of human activities in space to commercial companies. NASA garnered more than 0.7% of GDP in the mid-1960s but is only around 0.1% of GDP... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Economics; Private Sector; Aerospace Industry
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Internet Auctions for Close Substitutes

Economists agree that eBays auction design is sensible and potentially welfare-maximizing for the trade of collectibles, which are unique and idiosyncratic. For mainstream goods, which have close but imperfect substitutes (cars, cameras, computers, clothes), the... View Details

  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Integrity: A Positive Model That Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality Abridged

By: Werner H. Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron
We present a positive model of integrity that, as we distinguish and define integrity, provides powerful access to increased performance for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. Our model reveals the causal link between integrity and increased... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Performance Productivity; Information Technology; Knowledge; Moral Sensibility; Opportunities; Competitive Advantage; Legal Liability; Cost vs Benefits
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  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Bridging the “Middle Skills” Gap

  • 25 Apr 2022
  • News

Unicorns and Explosives: A Burning Ship Off Victoria’s Coast Hints at the Dangerous Secrets of Cargo Carriers

  • 19 Jun 2020
  • News

Inflation Is Higher Than the Official Numbers

  • 15 Oct 2016
  • News

Political dysfunction, economic progress and James Buchanan

  • 2021
  • Article

Designing, Not Checking, for Policy Robustness: An Example with Optimal Taxation

By: Benjamin B. Lockwood, Afras Sial and Matthew C. Weinzierl
Economists typically check the robustness of their results by comparing them across plausible ranges of parameter values and model structures. A preferable approach to robustness—for the purposes of policymaking and evaluation—is to design policy that takes these... View Details
Keywords: Optimal Taxation; Income Tax; Social Welfare; Elasticity; Income; Taxation; Policy
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  • 05 Jan 2014
  • News

Offbeat Dispatches From Economic Summit

  • 15 Aug 2016
  • News

Entrepreneurship Needs to Be a Bigger Part of U.S. Foreign Aid

  • Web

Business Economics - Doctoral

of Advanced International Studies Advisors: Pol Antras , Edward Glaeser , and Gabriel Kriendler Francesca Bastianello, 2022 The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business Advisors: John Campbell , Andrei Shleifer , Jeremy Stein , and Samuel G. Hanson Frank Pinter,... View Details
  • Forthcoming
  • Chapter

Oil, Macroeconomic Volatility and Crime in the Determination of Beliefs in Venezuela

By: Rafael Di Tella, Javier Donna and Robert MacCulloch
Book Abstract: At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest countries in the world, ahead of countries such as Greece,... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Volatility; Crime and Corruption; Values and Beliefs; Non-Renewable Energy; Energy Industry; Venezuela
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  • 07 Feb 2020
  • News

Women less inclined to self-promote than men, even for a job

  • 02 May 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Profits and Economic Development

Keywords: by Dan Schwab & Eric Werker
  • August 2018 (Revised September 2019)
  • Case

Magnus Resch: Transforming the Art Market Through Transparency

By: Henry McGee and Sarah Mehta
Economist and entrepreneur Magnus Resch was on a mission to make the art market more transparent. To that end, in 2014, he began building the Magnus app, which catalogued the price and transaction history of millions of works of art. Users could download the app, take... View Details
Keywords: Art Market; Transparency; Art Pricing; Business Startups; Decision Making; Innovation Strategy; Culture; Business Strategy; Mobile Technology; Fine Arts Industry; Information Technology Industry
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    Dwight B. Crane

    Mr. Crane was a member of the Finance Faculty at Harvard Business School for a number of years, working primarily in the field of financial institutions and corporate governance.  He taught in the MBA and executive education programs at the School, most recently... View Details