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  • 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51066 2016 Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government Authority and Expertise at the Origins of Macroeconomics By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—No abstract available.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

causal evidence for the role of matchmaking in promoting happiness. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46356 August 2013 Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse Oil, Macroeconomic Volatility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1960-2011, it was unusually high in the 1980s and negative in the 2000s, a period during which Treasury bonds enabled investors to hedge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

latter. Richard Vietor In the first decade of the 21st century, two macroeconomic trends have dominated the global economy. First, a huge asymmetry in current account balances evolved, and continues to remain unresolved. The US runs... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

macroeconomic crises. This note focuses primarily on private sector investment in industrial and infrastructure projects and contains four sections. The first section defines project finance and contrasts it with other well-known... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture Author:Laura Alfaro Publication:World Scientific Publishing Company, in press Abstract All managers face a business environment in which international and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

Cross-Country Income Differences Authors:Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanczuk Publication:NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2008. Cambridge, Mass.: NBER, 2009 Abstract We investigate, using plant-level data for 79... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

Macroeconomics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper presents a complete general equilibrium model with flexible wages where the degree to which wages and productivity change when cyclical employment changes is roughly consistent with postwar... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

least a quarter of per capita income differences. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-093.pdf Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? Authors:Diego A. Comin, Bill Easterly, and Erick Gong Publication:American Economic Journal: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

the macroeconomic potential-for incomes, productivity, and delivery of critically needed services-is huge. A call for "better management" may sound prosaic, but given the global payoffs, it's actually quite radical. Read the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

macroeconomic situation and clearly pointed to the culprit in front of the Spanish Congress: "Let nobody doubt it; there is already a wide consensus about the origin of the crisis: [It is] in the U.S. and its subprime... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

incentivized boards of directors may have played a role in protecting the interests of outside investors. Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:NBER Macroeconomics Annual (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

"The Big Picture" explores macroeconomic indicators, as well as those associated with the opportunities and constraints of the business environment; (2) "Regional Variation" makes a strong case for situating any... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

influenced by a vast array of factors: schools, roads, regulatory complexity, almost everything matters—not just the traditional macroeconomic policies. If you don't have a good public-education system, for example, you lack the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 14 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

of the use of venture capital investment. Do you think the use of project finance is affected by market cycles as well? And if so, what economic factors do you feel would influence a boost in interest in this sort of finance? A: The field of project finance has clearly... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 20 Aug 2007
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HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

prices and the geopolitical and macroeconomic environment in general. Total, for example, learned the hard way how important it was to be viewed as a stable firm when its shares dropped a total of 22 percent after it acquired the Belgian... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

Shiller, MacroMarkets' main innovation is the "MacroShare," which allows investors to take long or short, levered or unlevered, positions based on the value of any index. Both Shiller and Masucci are hopeful that MacroShares can help investors hedge all kinds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

variety of sources. It is organized into three sections: (1) "The Big Picture" explores macroeconomic indicators, as well as those associated with the opportunities and constraints of the business environment; (2) "Regional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

concealable. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/AshrafFieldLee_Sept2013.pdf August 2013 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries By: Comin, Diego A., Norman Loayza,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

challenging Chinese macroeconomic environment, SOHO China, the largest owner and developer of Class-A real estate in Beijing and Shanghai, was struggling to convince analysts of the merits of its new “build-to-hold” strategy. Founded as a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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