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- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
mind? A: A few trends stand out in policymaking. First, income tax schedules have "flattened out" in most developed countries, so that marginal View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
controlling for participants' income levels. A third experiment asked participants to rate the "permissibility" of 20 household items in the US Department of Labor's Consumer Price Index, purchased... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies
the data, countries have adopted new technologies an average of 47 years after they are invented, with the United States and the United Kingdom leading the way in adoption rates over most of the past two... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Working PapersAccountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China Authors:Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky, and Yu Zheng Abstract Over the past two decades, no two economies have averaged more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
that a 10% increase in the average price of in-state tuition is associated with a 13.9% decrease in new business starts of parents with college-age children in the CPS, relative to both non-parents and parents of younger children. A one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
officials. Distrust in the government increases the preferred tax rate on the top 1% only when business legitimacy is low. A model with multiple equilibria helps interpret these findings. In one of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Required Curriculum - MBA
the implications for their companies. Students will learn the impact of: National income and balance of payment accounting Exchange rate theory Political regimes An examination of both the gains and problems... View Details
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Ways to Give Today - Alumni
which is to provide scholarships for German students in need to attend HBS. Gifts can also be made for the benefit of HBS. Alumni who reside in Germany can deduct the full amount of a contribution to the Foundation from his or her gross income. Since the View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
dominance, with income. Given familiar functional form assumptions on utility and the distributions of ability and preferences, a simple statistic for the effect of preference heterogeneity on marginal tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Finance - Faculty & Research
Mortgage Convexity By: Samuel G. Hanson Most home mortgages in the United States are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) falls due... View Details
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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online
discover what's behind the numbers in financial statements, such as balance sheets and income statements. 8 weeks 6-8 hours per week 7 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS... View Details
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
analysis from EIA data, it is clear that the Northeast has the highest electricity rates (16 cents per kilowatt-hour) on average and thus the largest operating costs associated with heat pumps. Conversely,... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
employees of a health benefits administrator that held a free workplace influenza vaccination clinic. Results: A 2 SD increase in functional proximity is associated with a 6.4 percentage point increase in the probability of vaccination (total vaccination View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
Doctoral Programs; the acceptance rate for both was highly competitive, at 15% and 4%, respectively. Fellowships in fiscal year 2023 were awarded to 947 MBA students, with an average fellowship of $43,992.... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
income taxation. I show analytically how age dependence improves policy on both the intratemporal and intertemporal margins. I use detailed numerical simulations, calibrated with data from the U.S. PSID, to generate robust policy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
inversely related to income earned. This result holds even when the conventional model accurately describes the average individual, and it suggests one potential resolution to the puzzle of why observed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
anything but a good example for the average citizen. Left-wing politicians are equally guilty of framing the American Dream in material terms. They claim the Dream is increasingly out of reach of middle class Americans, pointing to a... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
managers face here are many and varied. In a bankruptcy restructuring, for example, one obvious objective is to reduce the firm's overall debt load. However, cancellation of debt creates equivalent taxable income for the firm. Flagstar... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
interest — on this mostly Republican $10 trillion debt, up from slightly less than $1 trillion when Reagan took office, is equivalent to about 40 percent of all the personal income taxes Americans pay each... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Supplemental Financial Information Revenues HBS funds its operations with cash from three primary sources: MBA tuition and fees; earned income from Harvard Business Publishing... View Details