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  • 18 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 18

make its service worthwhile for all. Drivers hesitate to pay for SaferTaxi's smartphones and service unless these will deliver passenger bookings-and passengers have no reason to sign up unless drivers are available. Meanwhile, regulators... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

Tanzania are more expensive than comparable hotels, and that this difference in price cannot be accounted for by differences in supply constraints. Further, using cross-country panel data, I show that upscale hotel View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

financing of large financial intermediaries put the larger financial system at risk. Once you recognize this, it's easy to argue for more regulation, but regulation is difficult, particularly when banks have figured out ways to shift... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

boost earnings to meet earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

  Publications August 2013 Modernizing Insurance Regulation Comparative Regulation of Market Intermediaries: Insights from the Indian Life Insurance Market By: Anagol, Santosh, Shawn A. Cole, and Shayak... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

argue that this compensation information should be treated as a trade secret. Q: How can regulated public disclosure of performance measures generate inefficiencies in firms' employment contracts? A: An inefficiency can occur when the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

hesitation to treat companies in an unequal fashion. In the cell phone market, the Turkish government sets both minimum and maximum prices. And the prices set for Turkcell are different than those for Turkcell’s competitors. That’s the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

consideration of the opportunity for Peru and other South American growers to exploit counter-seasonal export opportunities, selling into northern-hemisphere markets when prices peak. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

These platforms provide notable benefits including reducing transaction costs, improving allocation of resources, and creating information and pricing efficiencies. Yet they also raise questions of regulation, including how View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

well as the competitive advantages available from addressing them. But our understanding of shared value is still in its genesis. Attaining it will require managers to develop new skills and knowledge and governments to learn how to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

Barclays Bank, 2008 In the midst of the financial crisis, Barclays (the world's 4th largest bank by assets) is forced by UK regulators to raise more capital. Should it take up the UK government's offer to invest or take funding from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 26

in the ten-year forward real rate. This finding is at odds with standard macro models based on sticky nominal prices, which imply that monetary policy cannot move real rates over a horizon longer than that over which all prices in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant (Princeton University Press), looks at how craftsmen establish and fulfill professional identity while simultaneously skirting rules against the creation of personal artifacts... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 May 2017
  • News

Going with the Flow

regulate the industry, and the company became a pioneer in establishing a regulatory model and developing good manufacturing practices for stem cells and human tissue. ViaCord’s first transplant was in 1995, saving the life of a young... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

their innovation performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51467 Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock prices do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 10, 2009

passes. Based on this analysis, one major step that is necessary now to help ensure financial stability in the future is to identify and regulate "systemically significant" institutions on an ongoing basis, rather than simply in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

supermarket for "dolphin-safe" tuna, so Star-Kist decided to fish in safer waters and raised prices accordingly. In reality, even the most well-meaning customers didn't want to shell out more money for a can of tuna even if it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

systems. We then develop a simple model of how these markets enable entry by small or flexible suppliers and the resulting impact on existing firms. Finally, we consider the regulation of peer-to-peer markets and the economic arguments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

idea to investors, and by 2014 he had secured the capital necessary to expand Go-Jek rapidly. Almost overnight, Go-Jek overhauled the image of the lowly ojek. Before then price gouging of the uninitiated was rampant, and ojek were... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

indices. In a validation test, we find that relative sentiment is correlated with the relative prices of dual-listed companies. Global sentiment is a contrarian predictor of country-level returns. Both global and local sentiment are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne