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  • 27 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

Rotemberg Abstract A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of price changes and this can explain why the size of price... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

with the price-increase hammer every time they drive past a gas station. Harvard Business School professor John Quelch offers tips on how marketers can cope with inflation and consumer sticker shock. 12. Getting Down to the Business of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

higher than inflation of the competing currency(ies). I also don’t understand how it can be “legal” tender for any period of time since, in general, governments want to control everything, especially money, if possible. — Pete Pifer (PMD... View Details
Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • December 2022
  • Case

The Magic of Marks & Spencer Food

By: David E. Bell, Natalie Kindred and Damien McLoughlin
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Food; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Competition; Price; Inflation and Deflation; Trends; Growth and Development; Strategy; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

bonds varies predictably over time. We also find strong evidence that the spread between the nominal and the real bond risk premium, or the breakeven inflation risk premium, also varies over time. We argue that the time variation in real... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Ready for Takeoff

politics. "It had extremely high inflation rates and extremely low economic growth rates." But then two things happened, says Domínguez: First, the government began enacting serious reforms—the kind of fiscal and public policy changes... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

One Degree of Difference

two-thirds of American workers. It’s a particularly expensive practice for employers, who pay up to 30 percent more to hire graduates for middle-skills work even when individuals without degrees perform equally or nearly as well, according to “Dismissed by Degrees: How... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

didn’t follow smaller developers who flip houses, renovating and selling them quickly, often further inflating housing prices. And he definitely did not follow in the footsteps of the slumlords, those absentee owners who have long reigned... View Details
Keywords: April White; Real Estate
  • Profile

Shantanu Rege

on familiar economic issues. "In a textbook, inflation is just a number. But when you have colleagues who've lived through it, you understand its real impact on life, families, and politics. You learn about what it means and how... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 20, 2016

of Monetary Policy By: Du, Wenxin, Carolin E. Pflueger, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—Nominal debt provides consumption-smoothing benefits if it can be inflated away during recessions. However, we document empirically that countries with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

information about the risk of future economic crashes and deserve more scrutiny from policymakers, economists, and regulators. The paper emerges after years of persistent inflation and mounting interest rates, and amid close scrutiny of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • November 10, 2022
  • Article

5 Ways Startups Can Prepare for a Recession

By: Lou Shipley
Startups face unique challenges during economic downturns. They typically aren’t yet profitable and so are reliant on outside funding—and therefore are especially exposed when macroeconomic conditions change. To make it through a recession, startup CEOs should hit the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Sales; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Inflation and Deflation; Financial Crisis; Employee Relationship Management; Business Startups; Credit
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  • February 2020 (Revised August 2021)
  • Case

Australia: Commodities, Competitiveness, Climate and China

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Laura Alfaro
For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms—inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, and growing dependence on China. Between 1996 and 2007, however, Australia had most of these issues under control... View Details
Keywords: Commodities; Competitiveness; Carbon Tax; Environment; Capital Flows; Current Account; Mining; Economy; Problems and Challenges; Climate Change; Taxation; Competition; Financial Condition; Government and Politics; Inflation and Deflation; Environmental Sustainability; Australia
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  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Rx for Too Big to Fail

(and hugely leveraged) firms played a pivotal role in causing the crisis, inflating the bubble on the way up and driving the panic on the way down. They were also the undeserving beneficiaries of hundreds of billions in federal bailout... View Details
Keywords: David Moss; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

the Internet," he concluded. "This will favor the cheapest suppliers and keenest buyers and thus hold down prices and inflation while raising productivity." Ever-changing Demands In his remarks, the NYSE's Cochrane... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
  • Profile

Adam Kanner

whether it’s a sports team, a promoter, a Broadway show or a concert venue. ScoreBig also works with ticket brokers and any legitimate/verified source with unsold inventory. Unlike StubHub, which generally offers hard-to-get tickets at View Details
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Andrea Silbert

girls living on the streets to launch businesses, and Silbert found the work difficult but worthwhile. “It was the toughest job I’ve ever had,” she says, noting that inflation rose an astounding 40,000 percent in the eighteen months she... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

of time, the safe strategy is to invest in long-term coupon bonds (or annuities), not cash. There is catch with this, though. Standard annuities and Treasury bonds pay fixed coupons, and inflation can seriously erode the purchasing power... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path

one economic lesson from the crisis is that government support really works. Look at where we are today with inflation and supply chain problems—I’m not saying those are good things, but we certainly are not living with a hangover from... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 21 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy

are hoping that the financial incentives in the new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) help us underscore the importance of EVs as a solution for the grid to reduce electric loads.” However, Claire admitted that full EV adoption is a long way... View Details