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  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Exploring the Galápagos

Galápagos Islands. Cameras are pointed at blue beaks and red gullet sacks, inflated like birthday balloons. Unfortunately, Martin Marks (MBA 6/’47), Esther’s companion of 25 years and an avid birder, is back on the ship, resting. It’s Day... View Details
Keywords: Ted A. Adams; Arts, Entertainment
  • August 2010 (Revised February 2012)
  • Supplement

Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (B)

By: David F. Hawkins
Second case in the Cosmeticos de Espana case series. What should management's accounting response be to a devaluation of the Bolivar? View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Decision Choices and Conditions; Inflation and Deflation; Currency Exchange Rate; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Spain; Venezuela
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  • August 2010 (Revised February 2012)
  • Case

Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (A)

By: David F. Hawkins
Management must decide which exchange rate to use to consolidate the company's Venezuelan subsidiary. View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Business Subsidiaries; Inflation and Deflation; Currency Exchange Rate; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Spain; Venezuela
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  • Web

The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

(IIJA), the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Representatives from key government departments—Treasury, Commerce, Energy, and the White House—joined forces with leaders from finance, manufacturing, and... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

An Economy Undermined

fact, stocks on average did not rise at all in the 1970s. Productivity grew more slowly in the ensuing thirty years than it had for any prolonged period since the 1800s. My class’s first decade out from HBS was marked by economic and financial pain, high View Details
Keywords: Jeff Madrick; Finance
  • 29 Mar 2023
  • News

Giving Hope and Comfort

bigger challenge today is sourcing these vital products in the face of inflation and snags in the supply chain. Today, Hope and Comfort is still one of the few nonprofits distributing hygiene products, says Feingold, who retired from his... View Details
  • November 2005
  • Teaching Note

Japan: Deficits, Demography and Deflation (TN)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Demographics; Inflation and Deflation; Japan
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  • January–March 2000
  • Article

Un nuevo índice de precios para México, 1886-1929 [A New Price Index for Mexico, 1886-1929]

By: Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato and Aldo Musacchio
We present new price indices for the period 1886-1929. These indices have several advantages with respect to the previous ones: i) they cover the whole period with the same methodology, and by reaching 1929 these series can be joined with contemporary price indices,... View Details
Keywords: Price; Inflation and Deflation; Macroeconomics; Mexico
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  • June 2003
  • Article

Thinking Real: Key to Financial Analysis in Deflationary Periods

By: David Hawkins
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Finance; Theory; Inflation and Deflation
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  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

7 percent, with lots of appreciation on top of that. Do you have concerns about Japanlike deflation in the United States? Some fear that with a very low inflation rate of 1.5 percent, the United States is in danger of following Japan into... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • Article

Understanding Inflation-Indexed Bond Markets

By: John Y. Campbell, Robert J. Shiller and Luis M. Viceira
Keywords: Bonds; Markets; Inflation and Deflation; Financial Crisis
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  • August 2010 (Revised November 2010)
  • Supplement

Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (C)

By: David F. Hawkins
The third case in the Cosmeticos de Espana case series. What should management's accounting response be to a further devaluation of the Bolivar? View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Decision Choices and Conditions; Inflation and Deflation; Currency Exchange Rate; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Spain; Venezuela
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  • October 2014 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

A Currency We Can Call Our Own: Populism, Banking Crises, and Exchange Rate Crises in Argentina, 1946–2002

By: Rafael Di Tella
The case describes Argentina's struggle to establish a credible monetary system under populist pressures and the recurrent use of exchange rate stabilization plans. It focuses on two episodes where there was "too little money" in the economy: during the hyperinflation... View Details
Keywords: Debt Crisis; Hyperinflation; Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Currency Exchange Rate; Argentina
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This paper starts by discussing consumers' cognitive and emotional reaction to posted prices. Cognitively, some consumers do not appear to make effective use of price information to maximize their consumption-based utility. Emotionally, prices can induce regret and... View Details
Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Price; Policy; Laws and Statutes; Consumer Behavior; Emotions
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Creating a mathematical method to understand consumer behavior in a digital world

influence by controlling for those “birds-of-a-feather” tendencies. The findings show that social influence accounts for more than 25 percent of all mobile app adoptions. The research also highlights an important risk: If homophily is not removed as a factor, it can... View Details
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Markups and Cost Pass-through Along the Supply Chain

By: Santiago Alvarez-Blaser, Alberto Cavallo, Alexander MacKay and Paolo Mengano
We study markups and pricing strategies along the supply chain. Our unique dataset combines detailed price and cost information from a large global manufacturer with matched retail prices collected online for the period July 2018 through June 2023. We show that total... View Details
Keywords: Markups; Pricing; Price; Supply Chain; Inflation and Deflation; Cost
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  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

ripple through the balance sheets of businesses and households alike. Indeed, after years of debate, Congress recently took aim at drug prices through provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act. But there are many systemic factors leading... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

Abstract This paper decomposes the excess return predictability in inflation-indexed and nominal government bonds into effects from liquidity, market segmentation, real interest rate risk, and inflation risk. We estimate a large and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2008 (Revised April 2009)
  • Case

Kinyuseisaku: Monetary Policy in Japan (A)

By: Laura Alfaro and Akiko Kanno
Toshihiko Fukui, Governor of the Bank of Japan, faced a complex situation in the fall of 2007. An economic recovery had allowed the central bank to abandon its zero interest rate policy, which had been in place for years, and raise rates to 0.5%. The Bank of Japan was... View Details
Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Money; Central Banking; Interest Rates; Policy; Japan
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  • 03 Sep 2020
  • Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

medicine. They do not know if they received good value for the money. Partially as a result of this lack of transparency, increases in employers’ health care costs have outstripped inflation and workers’ wage increases for decades.... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health