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  • March 2015
  • Article

Monetary Policy and Long-Term Real Rates

By: Samuel G. Hanson and Jeremy C. Stein
Changes in monetary policy have surprisingly strong effects on forward real rates in the distant future. A 100 basis point increase in the two-year nominal yield on a Federal Open Markets Committee announcement day is associated with a 42 basis point increase in the... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Interest Rates; Economics
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  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

explanation of price rigidity has the advantage of being consistent with the observation that the typical size of price increases is nearly invariant to inflation. Lastly, the paper turns to some government policies regarding prices that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

think the chances of a government plan supplanting private options are slim," he writes. But the existence of both public and private insurance plans might provide enough competition to improve overall value for patients. Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • 02 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

truth.") Now research suggests that the federal government might be able to encourage honest reporting simply by moving the signature line to the top of the form, such that signers declare that they will... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting
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Placement - Doctoral

Minton Business Economics, 2023 Placement: Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Economist Dissertation: How the Price System Works: Evidence from Supply Chains and Price Controls Advisors: Xavier Gabaix , Edward Glaeser , Andrei Shleifer ,... View Details
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Curriculum - Case Method Project

over how the federal government should address the rapid development of a new communications technology with major implications for American democracy: broadcast radio. In particular, it focuses on President... View Details
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

Synchronicity and Firm Interlocks in an Emerging Market Authors:Tarun Khanna and Catherine Thomas Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Stock price synchronicity has been attributed to poor corporate governance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
The U.S. employer-based health insurance tax exclusion created a system of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with limited insurance choices and transparency that may lock employed households into health plans that are costlier or different from those they prefer to... View Details
Keywords: After-tax Income; Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Income Inequality; Tax Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Employees; Income; Taxation; Policy; United States
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  • October, 2023
  • Article

Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: Housing Market Impacts of Removing Legacy Pollutants

By: Alecia Cassidy, Robyn C. Meeks and Michale R. Moore
The Great Lakes and their tributaries make up the largest freshwater system on the planet, providing drinking water and recreational value to millions of people. Yet manufacturing plants left a legacy of toxic pollutants in the region, tarnishing it as part of the... View Details
Keywords: Valuation Of Environmental Effects; Housing Demand; Water Pollution; Water Quality; Infrastructure; Pollution; Consumer Behavior
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Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge

Eisenhower, and Robert McNamara. 08 Nov 2024 Op-Ed How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis by John Macomber Africa faces escalating climate risks that threaten its people and businesses. While governments and... View Details
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Social Safety Net

By: Gareth Olds
This paper explores the role of public health insurance in small business ownership among immigrants, a group with high rates of entrepreneurship. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 created a five-year “waiting period” for legal... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Entrepreneurship; Welfare or Wellbeing; Immigration
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Much Ado About Nothing? Overreaction to Random Regulatory Audits

By: Samuel Antill and Joseph Kalmenovitz
Regulators often audit firms to detect non-compliance. Exploiting a natural experiment in the lobbying industry, we show that firms overreact to audits and this response distorts prices and reduces welfare. Each year, federal regulators audit a random sample of... View Details
Keywords: Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Price
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    John A. Quelch

    John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.  Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University... View Details

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      Michael A. Wheeler

      Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

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      Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

      corporations to open their books for government inspection Influence: High 10 1910 19 Breakup of Standard Oil and American Tobacco Clayton Antitrust Act Federal Reserve Act First Federal-Aid Highway Act... View Details
      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Distributional Consequences of Monetary Policy Across Races: Evidence from the U.S. Credit Register

      By: Laura Alfaro, Ester Faia and Camelia Minoiu
      We examine the consequences of monetary policy on racial disparities, focusing on the role of bank lending to firms through collateral and selection channels. Leveraging comprehensive loan-level data from the U.S. credit register (Y-14Q) of the Federal Reserve, we show... View Details
      Keywords: Monetary Policy Transmission; Inequity; Credit Registry; Wealth; Collateral Channel; Selection; Racial Disparity; Racial Inequality; Equality and Inequality; Banks and Banking; Credit; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Banking Industry; United States
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      • 03 Mar 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: March 3, 2009

      merchants petitioned shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune to officially authorize trade in rice futures at the Dojima Exchange, the world's first organized (but unsanctioned) futures market. For many years, the Japanese government had prohibited the... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 18 Sep 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language

      Does the federal deficit matter? Oceans of ink track and report this monster tally (current estimates for fiscal year 2006 stand at $260 billion), yet Jerry Green of Harvard Business School and Laurence J. Kotlikoff of Boston University... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna
      • 2019
      • Article

      Pay-for-Monopoly?: An Assessment of Reverse Payment Deals by Pharmaceutical Companies

      By: Sana Rafiq and Max Bazerman
      Abstract Over the past eighteen years, pharmaceutical firms have developed a blueprint to impede competition in order to maintain their monopoly profits. This scheme, termed pay-for-delay, involves direct or indirect payment of money from a branded-drug manufacturer... View Details
      Keywords: Monopoly; Policy; Competition; Agreements and Arrangements; Pharmaceutical Industry
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      • 22 May 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

      careful about which loans you take on. Federal student loans are directly funded by the government and offer a variety of consumer protections to help those who are struggling, such as repayment options that... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman