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  • 02 Dec 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

and importing unskilled workers to keep costs low takes away the initiative for technological advances ." And Sam Heffner, invoking the noted economist, Milton Friedman, pointed out that "before he died, the great Dr. Friedman acknowledged that in a (more or... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007

with Incomplete Information Author:Lucy White Periodical:Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 16, no. 2 (summer 2007): 507-535 Abstract We investigate the robustness of the new foreclosure doctrine and its associated welfare... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

rate of 37% is fairly close to the model's estimated welfare-maximizing taxation rate of 42%. Reducing corruption provides the largest potential impact for welfare gain through its impact on the uses of tax revenues. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

growing income inequality in the United States and high household indebtedness. Most accounts trace the U.S. idea of credit-as-welfare to the period of wage stagnation and welfare retrenchment that began in the early 1970s. Using France... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

deposits from one intermediary to another. Regulatory policies, including deposit insurance, minimum capital requirements, and restrictions on the assets held by depository institutions can increase the ex ante welfare of depositors.  ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample evidence, though, that people misuse care for a different reason: mistakes or "behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

community activists? When and how does such reporting affect how managers make decisions in ways that increase or decrease shareholder value? What are the main welfare effects of corporate accountability reporting? Using the lessons of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities
  • 04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4

potent for the growth of elite-oriented nonprofits-but not social welfare nonprofits-when local networks and cultural norms support elite mobilization. We conclude that despite globalizing trends, the local geographic community continues... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-067.pdf Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences Author: Hanna W. Halaburda Abstract This paper investigates the causes and welfare consequences of unravelling in two-sided... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • July 2017 (Revised November 2017)
  • Case

Propel

By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah McAra
In 2014, Jimmy Chen, a former product manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; Food Stamps; EBT; Mobile App; User Research; Financial Services Referrals; Grocery Marketing; Customer Discovery; Social Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Business Model; Research; Social Enterprise; Poverty; Welfare; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Industry; United States
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  • March 2007 (Revised October 2007)
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Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Kerry Herman
Deals with approaches to alleviating poverty and how firms, governments, and NGOs are able to work together to accomplish these goals. View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Nutrition; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Welfare
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  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

of 2.5 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles with implications for growth policy and our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

welfare in Mexico. Did liberalization lead to an increase (or decrease) in the supply of credit? Did liberalization lead to an increase (or decrease) in the cost of credit? Did liberalization lead to an increase (or decrease) in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

We close with an attempt to identify strategies to close the gap between the unethical people we are and the ethical people that we strive to be. Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

research shows that in the 10 cities with the largest Airbnb market share in the US, the entry of Airbnb resulted in 1.3 percent fewer hotel nights booked and a 1.5 percent loss in hotel revenue. The paper, The Welfare Effects of Peer... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

this framework for the time path of U.S. policy require central parameters of the model, namely the elasticity of taxable income or the marginal social welfare weights on top earners, to take unconventional values. We use inferred social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

the long-run. Policy is evaluated by how well it raises the welfare of the representative household. While the model has Keynesian features, its policy prescriptions differ significantly from textbook Keynesian analysis. Moreover, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

in all cases that we consider, the welfare gains of using optimal capital taxes are small. Download the paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w16619 A Behavioral Model of Demandable Deposits and Its Implications for Financial Regulation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

compatibility can thus increase asymmetry between the platform owners’ profit foci and, given a sufficiently large difference in the standalone utilities, yields greater profits for both platform owners. We further show that social View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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