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  • 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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Gabaix, Xavier, and Thomas Graeber. "The Complexity of Economic Decisions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-049, February 2024.

    Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation

    As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market failure models nor public choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our current regulatory challenges, nor point us toward the best solutions. Regulatory studies, long neglected in an... View Details
    • 1996
    • Article

    Competition and 'Fair Trade': History and Theory

    Keywords: Competition; Trade; History; Theory
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    McCraw, T. K. "Competition and 'Fair Trade': History and Theory." Research in Economic History 16 (1996): 185–239.
    • 16 Oct 2012
    • News

    On Marriage, Kidneys and the Economics Nobel

    • June 1996 (Revised November 1996)
    • Background Note

    Economic Gains from Trade: Comparative Advantage

    By: Robert E. Kennedy and Nancy F. Koehn
    How nations trade and whether they benefit from it are two of the oldest and most important questions in political economy. In the 170 years since David Ricardo formally developed the theory of comparative advantage, it has become one of the principles most widely... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Microeconomics; Trade; Cost Management; Business and Government Relations
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    Kennedy, Robert E., and Nancy F. Koehn. "Economic Gains from Trade: Comparative Advantage." Harvard Business School Background Note 796-183, June 1996. (Revised November 1996.)
    • May 2023
    • Article

    Gentrification and Retail Churn: Theory and Evidence

    By: Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca and Erica Moszkowski
    How does gentrification transform neighborhood retail amenities? This paper presents a model in which gentrification harms incumbent residents by increasing rental costs and by eliminating distinctive local stores. While rising rents can be offset with targeted... View Details
    Keywords: Gentrification; Neighborhoods; Impact; Local Range; Transition; Civil Society or Community; Welfare; Economic Growth
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    Glaeser, Edward L., Michael Luca, and Erica Moszkowski. "Gentrification and Retail Churn: Theory and Evidence." Art. 103879. Regional Science and Urban Economics 100 (May 2023).
    • 12 Jul 2016
    • News

    Prof. Howard Raiffa, Giant in Game Theory and Decision Analysis, Dies at 92

    • 01 Sep 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Transaction Cost Economics in the Digital Economy: A Research Agenda

    Keywords: by Frank Nagle, Robert Seamans, and Steve Tadelis
    • 2024
    • Book

    Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions

    By: Guhan Subramanian and Michael Klausner
    Drawing on real-life cases from a wide range of industries, two acclaimed experts offer a sophisticated but accessible guide to business deals, designed to maximize value for your side.

    Business transactions take widely varying forms—from multibillion-dollar... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Contracts
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    Subramanian, Guhan, and Michael Klausner. Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions. Harvard University Press, 2024.
    • 12 Sep 2024
    • HBS Seminar

    Jose Vasquez, London School of Economics

    • Teaching Interest

    Economics of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

    Designed for Harvard College sophomores.

    Course Description: Why do so many individuals choose to pursue entrepreneurship despite substantial risks? How do these entrepreneurs raise money to finance their ventures? And what is the impact of... View Details

    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Venture Capital
    • 11 Aug 2014
    • HBS Case

    The Business of Behavioral Economics

    specializing in the burgeoning field of behavioral economics. "Standard economic theory suggests that as long as people understand the full consequences of their actions, they tend to act in their self... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health
    • 2016
    • Book

    Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government

    By: Rosario Patalano and Sophus A. Reinert
    Little is known of Antonio Serra except that he wrote his extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes That Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail and that he died there soon afterwards. However, the... View Details
    Keywords: History; Books; Government and Politics; Economics
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    Patalano, Rosario and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government. Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
    • 15 Oct 2016
    • News

    Political dysfunction, economic progress and James Buchanan

    • 22 Jul 2015
    • News

    The behavioural economics of voluntary disclosure

    • 20 Feb 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?

    Keywords: by Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin, Peter Howitt & Isabel Tecu

      Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS)

      Together with Prof. Daniel F. Spulber (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University), I edit the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS), the leading academic journal on the economics of strategy. JEMS is based at Harvard Business... View Details
      • 22 Oct 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

      The first edition of A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, by David A. Moss was published in 2007—just as one of the world's great economic downturns was taking off. The second edition has just been published, which includes an epilogue on... View Details
      Keywords: Re: David A. Moss
      • 1982
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      On the Microeconomic Theory of Investment under Uncertainty

      By: Robert C. Merton
      Keywords: Microeconomics; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management
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      Merton, Robert C. "On the Microeconomic Theory of Investment under Uncertainty." In Handbook of Mathematical Economics. Vol. 2, edited by K. Arrow and M. Intriligator. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1982.

        Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions

        Business transactions take widely varying forms―from multibillion-dollar corporate mergers to patent licenses to the signing of an all-star quarterback. Yet every deal shares the same goal, or at least should: to maximize the joint value created and to distribute... View Details
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