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  • 2010
  • Report

Vietnam Competitiveness Report 2010

By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Nguyen Dinh Cung, Nguyen Thi Tue Anh and Do Hong Hanh
The 2010 Vietnam Competitiveness Report contains a broad assessment of Vietnam's current competitiveness, an analysis of the key challenges and opportunities ahead, and a proposal for an economic strategy to enable Vietnam to reach a higher level of sustainable growth.... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Labor; Industry Clusters; Performance Capacity; Performance Productivity; Competitive Strategy
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  • 11 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

patterns of hundreds of thousands of inventors over two decades. (They considered only inventors who held multiple patents.) "Patenting inventors represent an important category of skilled workers involving the sorts of trade secrets... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

the market by setting the welfare-maximizing level of trade when the difference in the degree of asymmetric information between buyers and sellers is significant. However, if this difference is below a certain threshold, then even the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

useful for assessing vulnerability, policy analysis, sovereign credit risk analysis, and design of sovereign risk mitigation and control strategies. Applications for investors in three areas are discussed. First, CCA provides a new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

August 2013 Journal of Accounting Research Private Interaction Between Firm Management and Sell-Side Analysts By: Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract—Although sell-side analysts often privately interact with managers of publicly traded firms, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

Publications Managed Globalization: Doctrine, Practice, and Promise Authors: Rawi Abdelal and Sophie Meunier Publication: Journal of European Public Policy 17, no. 3 (April 2010): 349-366 Abstract Two alternate visions for shaping and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Nov 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

level the consumer seems to benefit What are the downsides for consumers?: no choice in platform content feed from ‘preferred’ sources, personal information, and pattern recognition issues to name a few. So governance and policy settings... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

a social mission. In what is one of the first commercial financing deals in the world, Akula must decide at what value to sell equity in SKS, and to whom to sell it. The case focuses on valuation, which is difficult because at the time there are no publicly View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 1

Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless paper, it View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

90th percentile of corruption are much lower across the board. We make progress towards causality through Granger-style tests and by considering periphery counties where effective tax policy is largely driven by bordering states. Finally,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

Government: Yes Or No? Shin Yasunobe, a former director within various departments of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), and now executive director of Stanford's Japan Center for Research, warned against... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
  • 18 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale

The overarching theme of the 2023 Annual Climate Symposium was “Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale”, exploring not only the existing climate solutions but also the crucial aspects of capital and policy deployment required to accelerate... View Details
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

According to Oliva and Suarez, YPF, Argentina's formerly state-owned oil company, is one example of a company's transformation following economic reform. Unlike Chile, which modified its economic policies gradually under the Pinochet... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
  • 20 Aug 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All

on Amazon has a struck-out price, but if you look at the policy behind that price, it’s incredibly vague,” he says. Consumers have even brought class-action suits against retailers including JCPenney, Sears, Macy’s, and Kohl’s for their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Retail
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Over the Top

Pitchfork populism over the issue reached a crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers’ cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London office whose derivatives View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

also more pronounced for the insurance firms for which regulatory capital requirements are more binding. The results hold both at issuance and for trading in the secondary market and are robust to a series of bond and issuer controls,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

issuance and for trading in the secondary market and are robust to a series of bond and issuer controls, including issuer fixed effects as well as liquidity and duration. Comparison of the ex-post performance of bonds acquired by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

institutions, in chronological order. The first story deals with a policy-making process at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The second deals with an administrative legal proceeding regarding anti-trust enforcement by the Federal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

policies that promote localism. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-062.pdf The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions and the Diffusion of New Products Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Victor Calanog Abstract Trust in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

exploring the conditions under which investable tax credits may be the most effective mechanism to deliver a production subsidy and discusses the desirability of employing investable tax credits in other policy domains. Estimates of tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace