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  • 30 Nov 2018
  • News

The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

  • 16 Jul 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Global Supply Chains: The Looming 'Great Reallocation'

By: Laura Alfaro and Davin Chor
Global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress as a result of U.S.-China trade tensions, the COVID-19 pandemic, and geopolitical shocks. We document shifts in the pattern of U.S. participation in global value chains over the last four decades, in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain; International Relations; Trade; Globalized Markets and Industries
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  • 2021
  • Chapter

Business Continuity Insurance in the Next Disaster

By: Samuel Gregory Hanson, Adi Sunderam and Eric Zwick
This article draws lessons from the business support policies pursued in the COVID-19 pandemic to guide policy design for the next disaster. We contrast the performance of the Paycheck Protection Program to the Main Street Lending Program to illustrate how design... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Policy; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financing and Loans; United States
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    Reviving and Restructuring the Corporate Sector Post-Covid

    The report commends the broad-based governmental actions initially taken to support the economy, citizens, and the corporate sector during the Covid pandemic. However, structural changes in our economies due to the pandemic, and growing corporate... View Details

    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care

    By: Amitabh Chandra, Pragya Kakani and Adam Sacarny
    We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use it to study Black and white Medicare patients who are treated for heart attacks—a condition where virtually everyone receives care, hospital care is... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Equality and Inequality; Race; Analysis
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    • 03 Jan 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Banking Deregulation, Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

    Keywords: by William Kerr & Ramana Nanda; Banking
    • 2017
    • Chapter

    Multinational Activity in Emerging Markets: How and When Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Growth?

    By: Laura Alfaro
    Among the prominent economic trends in recent decades is the exponential increase in flows of goods and capital driven by technological progress and a falling number of restrictions. A key driver of this phenomenon has been the cross-border production, foreign... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Activity; Growth; Spillovers; Complementarities; Foreign Direct Investment; Emerging Markets; Growth and Development; Multinational Firms and Management
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    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    Public Disclosure of Private Meetings: Does Observing Peers’ Information Acquisition Affect Analysts’ Attention Allocation?

    By: Yi Ru, Ronghuo Zheng and Yuan Zou
    We investigate the impact of observing peers’ information acquisition on financial analysts’ allocation of attention. Using the timely disclosure mandate by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange as a setting, we find that, shortly after analysts observe that a firm has been... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Information; Financial Institutions; Accounting; Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry; China
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    • 21 Aug 2023
    • Book

    You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

    People will pigeonhole you. “The longer you equate your identity with your occupation, the more that’s how the market will see you as well,” she says. This is important for managers, too, who might get into hiring ruts and have a myopic... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 08 Nov 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Nov. 8

    industry to measure to what extent waiting-time performance impacts different firms' market shares and price decisions. We report on a large-scale empirical industrial organization study in which the demand equations for fast-food... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Faculty & Research

    functions, transferring high-cost capacity to the largest, most efficient firm—thereby diversifying its production technologies while increasing concentration—can lower prices by prompting the leader to expand output and competitors to aggressively defend View Details
    • 26 Jun 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: June 26

    Authors:Desai, Mihir A., C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. Abstract This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax incentives. Tax-induced differences in pretax returns... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 25 Feb 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: February 25

    in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of labor regulation and the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

    illustrate the process and power of market design through three examples: the design of medical residency matching programs, a scrip system to allocate food donations to food banks, and the recent “Incentive Auction” that View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Feb 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: February 26, 2008

      Working PapersAn Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions Authors:Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Combining new, hand-collected data with a widely studied dataset, we examine how firms use View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    Bubbles for Fama By: Robin Greenwood , Andrei Shleifer & Yang You FEB 2017 Authors Greenwood, Shleifer, and You evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock markets do not exhibit price bubbles using US and international stock return data.... View Details
    • 24 Jun 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: June 24

    effects of deregulation on firm size are significantly non-linear. The reallocation of market shares toward a small number of large firms and a large number of small firms is characterized as the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

    fair price required for insurers to remain solvent, suggesting that the market may disappear for the most constrained, financially vulnerable households. If prices were to continue growing at historical rates moving forward, our estimates... View Details
    • 30 Nov 2021
    • In Practice

    What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

    The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
    Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman