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  • January 2022
  • Article

The Private Impact of Public Data: Landsat Satellite Maps Increased Gold Discoveries and Encouraged Entry

By: Abhishek Nagaraj
How does public data shape the relative performance of incumbents and entrants in the private sector? Using a simple theoretical framework, I argue that public data reduces investment uncertainty, facilitates the discovery of new market opportunities and increases the... View Details
Keywords: Public Data; Maps; Gold; Microeconomic Behavior; Economics; Data and Data Sets; Private Sector; Market Entry and Exit; Mining
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  • February 2014
  • Article

Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess

By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman
We present the results of an experiment that explores whether women are less willing than men to guess on multiple-choice tests. Our test consists of practice questions from SAT II subject tests; we vary whether a penalty is imposed for a wrong answer and the salience... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Decision Making; Microeconomic Behavior; Education Systems; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Gender; Economics
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  • Teaching

Overview

Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Microeconomics (Professor Marc Melitz, Harvard College)

Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Microeconomics (Professors Lalith Munasinghe, Kristin Mammen, Barnard College)

Teaching Assistant, Contract Law (Professor Oren... View Details
  • December 12, 2009
  • Other Article

The Transformation of India: Incumbent Control, Reforms, and Newcomers

By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
What microeconomic forces drove the structural transformation of India's economy in recent decades? This column studies firm-level data and portrays a dynamic economy driven by the growth of private and foreign firms. But the Indian economy did not go through an... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Microeconomics; India
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  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Porter: "El Perú recién está empezando la tarea" (Porter: "Peru is just beginning the task")

  • February 1997 (Revised March 1999)
  • Background Note

Transition to a Market Economy: The Components of Reform

Makes a positive case for three broad categories of economic reform--macroeconomic stabilization, microeconomic liberalization, and institutional reform. View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Microeconomics; Macroeconomics
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  • 11 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006

Microeconomic activity such as the sophistication of company operations account for 80 percent of the variation in GDP per capita across countries, according to the report. Macroeconomic factors create a favorable business environment... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2023
  • News

Behind the Research: Tomomichi Amano

  • 25 Aug 2016
  • Video

Arturo Galvan responds to MOC class discussion in 2016

  • 25 Aug 2016
  • Video

Paul Kagame responds to MOC class discussion in 2016

  • 25 Aug 2016
  • Video

Dirk Hogervorst responds to MOC class discussion in 2016

  • February 1998
  • Case

AT&T WorldNet (A)

The issue of how to price access to the Internet is addressed. To provide a basis for discussion of the effects of pricing that is not sensitive to volume, network externalities, and the strategic issues surrounding price wars in a short course on microeconomics View Details
Keywords: Price; Internet; Accounting; Microeconomics; Telecommunications Industry
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  • Research Summary

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
  • 25 Aug 2016
  • Video

Arantxa Tapia responds to MOC class discussion in 2015

  • 25 Aug 2016
  • Video

Jose Figueres responds to MOC class discussion in 2016

  • August 2000 (Revised July 2002)
  • Background Note

Economic Evidence on the Globalization of Markets

Presents the systematic evidence in the context of the microeconomic model of market integration. Market integration is just one (economic) aspect of globalization; this is one of the particular interests to business managers. View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries
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  • 25 Sep 2001
  • Other Presentation

The Baltic Rim Regional Agenda

By: Michael E. Porter
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development," in The Global Competitiveness Report 1998,... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Russia
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  • 25 Aug 2016
  • Video

Seth Pinsky responds to MOC class discussion in 2016

  • 8 Mar 2005
  • Other Presentation

Armenian Competitiveness: Towards a Strategy for Economic Development

By: Michael E. Porter
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Prosperity," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2004-05 (World Economic Forum, 2004); "Clusters and the New Competitive... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Armenia
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  • Teaching Interest

Overview

Andrea has worked as a teaching assistant in the following courses -Advanced Microeconomics (Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies) -Advanced Macroeconomics (Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies) -Global Strategic Management... View Details