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    Bank Capital and the Low Risk Anomaly

    Minimum capital requirements are a central tool of banking regulation. Setting them balances a number of factors, including any effects on the cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in perfect and efficient... View Details
    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930

    By: Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio
    There is a large amount of literature that aims to explain what determines country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk-free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Sovereign Finance; Goods and Commodities; Risk and Uncertainty; Trade; Taxation; Cost of Capital; Revenue; Brazil
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    • 2024
    • Report

    The Economic Benefits of a Public Sector Nano, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (nMSME) Grading Agency: Evidence from Nigeria

    By: Saveshen Pillay, Zaakirah Ismail, Anywhere Sikochi and Charles Odii
    This is a summary of our working paper exploring the possibility of creating a public sector small and medium enterprise (SME) grading system in Emerging Markets. Using research and insights from ongoing work with the Nigerian government, the first country in Africa to... View Details
    Keywords: Credit; Public Sector; Emerging Markets; Small Business; Africa; Nigeria
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    • May 1998
    • Article

    Market Structure, Innovation and Vertical Product Differentiation

    By: Shane Greenstein and Garey Ramey
    We reassess Arrow's (1962) [Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention, in NBER, The Rate and Direction of Innovative Activity (Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ)] results concerning the effect of market structure on the returns from process... View Details
    Keywords: Product; Market Design; Innovation and Invention; Monopoly; Competition
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    • March 2020
    • Article

    Voluntary, Self-Regulatory, and Mandatory Disclosure of Oil and Gas Company Payments to Foreign Governments

    By: Paul M. Healy and George Serafeim
    Concerns about high rates of government corruption in resource-rich countries have led transparency advocates to urge oil and gas firms to disclose payments to host governments for natural resources. Transparency, they argue, can increase government accountability and... View Details
    Keywords: Oil ＆ Gas; Corruption; Transparency; Self-regulation; Industry Self-regulation; Regulation; Disclosure; Disclosure Regulation; Energy Sources; Crime and Corruption; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Energy Industry
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      Real Growth in Space Manufacturing Output Substantially Exceeds Growth in the Overall Space Economy

      Accurately measuring real economic output in the space economy is made difficult by the rapid increase in capabilities and decrease in prices of launch and satellite technologies achieved over the past two decades. Nominal measures of output in space will tend to... View Details
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930

      By: Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio
      There is a large amount of literature that aims to explain what determines country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory... View Details
      Keywords: Trade; Cost of Capital; Revenue; Sovereign Finance; Goods and Commodities; Taxation; Business History; Risk and Uncertainty; Brazil
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      • 10 Sep 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Don’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations

      Keywords: by Judd B. Kessler & Alvin E. Roth
      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      The Complexity of Economic Decisions

      By: Xavier Gabaix and Thomas Graeber
      We propose a theory of the complexity of economic decisions. Leveraging a macroeconomic framework of production functions, we conceptualize the mind as a cognitive economy, where a task’s complexity is determined by its composition of cognitive operations. Complexity... View Details
      Keywords: Decisions; Complexity; Perception; Consumer Behavior; Production
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      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      Cohort Turnover and Operational Performance: The July Phenomenon in Teaching Hospitals

      By: Hummy Song, Robert S. Huckman and Jason R. Barro
      We consider the impact of cohort turnover—the planned simultaneous exit of a large number of experienced employees and a similarly sized entry of new workers—on operational performance in the context of teaching hospitals. Specifically, we examine the impact of the... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Operations; Hospitals; Productivity; Empirical Operations; Service Delivery; Training; Performance Productivity; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly

      By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
      Minimum capital requirements are a central tool of banking regulation. Setting them balances a number of factors, including any effects on the cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in perfect and efficient capital... View Details
      Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Cost of Capital; Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; United States
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      • July 2021
      • Article

      Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms

      By: Zoë Cullen and Chiara Farronato
      We study the growth of online peer-to-peer markets. Using data from TaskRabbit, an expanding marketplace for domestic tasks at the time of our study, we show that growth varies considerably across cities. To disentangle the potential drivers of growth, we look... View Details
      Keywords: Two-sided Market; Two-sided Platforms; Peer-to-peer Markets; Platform Strategy; Sharing Economy; Platform Growth; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Market Design; Network Effects
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      Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details

      • 12 Oct 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: October 12, 2006

        Working PapersDo Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance? Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations'... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 04 Apr 2016
      • HBS Seminar

      Shelley Correll, Stanford University

      • 11 Sep 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

      the pass-through of both gas prices and nominal exchange rate fluctuations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54935 forthcoming Consumption, Markets & Culture Big Data By: Deighton, John A. Abstract—Big... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • 02 Nov 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Making the Numbers? ‘Short Termism’ & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

      Keywords: by Nelson P. Repenning & Rebecca M. Henderson
      • 14 Feb 2023
      • Blog Post

      Recruiting During Uncertainty: How to Meet Students Where They Are

      The early 2023 job market is a story of mixed signals. Scrolling their LinkedIn newsfeed, students are seeing a sea of layoffs. Yet at the same time the unemployment rate has hit a 53-year low. Some companies are proactively seeking more... View Details
      Keywords: All Industries
      • 08 Sep 2008
      • HBS Case

      The Value of Environmental Activists

      There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
      Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
      • 06 Aug 2008
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India

      Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole; Banking