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- 18 Jun 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Elections and Discretionary Accruals: Evidence from 2004
Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna & Sugata Roychowdhury
- Teaching Interest
MBA Elective Curriculum Business Marketing and Sales
Business markets differ from consumer markets in important ways. Typically, the buying process is more complex, the buying units and purchase criteria differ, and marketing decisions are more closely interrelated with firm-wide strategic choices. In addition,... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- News
The unappealing choices after an inconclusive election
- TeachingInterests
MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models
The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- News
Why 2016 May Be The Most Important Presidential Election Since 1860
- 2022
- Working Paper
Coordination and Incumbency Advantage in Multi-Party Systems: Evidence from French Elections
By: Kevin Dano, Francesco Ferlenga, Vincenzo Galasso, Caroline Le Pennec and Vincent Pons
In theory, free and fair elections can improve the selection of politicians and incentivize them to exert effort. In practice, incumbency advantage and coordination issues may lead to the (re)election of bad politicians. We ask whether these two forces compound each... View Details
Keywords: Political Parties; Incumbent Politicians; Democracy; Political Elections; Competitive Advantage
Dano, Kevin, Francesco Ferlenga, Vincenzo Galasso, Caroline Le Pennec, and Vincent Pons. "Coordination and Incumbency Advantage in Multi-Party Systems: Evidence from French Elections." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30541, October 2022.
- Editorial
Tsipras' Second Chance: Greece to Hold Elections
By: George Serafeim
Serafeim, George. "Tsipras' Second Chance: Greece to Hold Elections." The Conversation (August 24, 2015). (Editorial. Also published as "A 100-day Plan to Get Greece Back on Track" in Australian Outlook on August 24, 2015.)
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
Researchers have long known that building high levels of voter trust and participation are essential to help fragile democracies thrive. The 2013 national elections in Kenya, which followed vast government changes after a flawed national... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 14 Apr 2017
- News
Professor John Quelch Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- 21 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year
As more than 50 countries hold elections in 2024, far-right politicians and policies look poised to gain ground, continuing a years-long trend evident in Europe, the United States, and South America. These movements often stoke grievances... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 Sep 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Rankings Matter Even When They Shouldn't: Bandwagon Effects in Two-Round Elections
Keywords: by Vincent Pons and Clémence Tricaud
- 22 Oct 2024
- News
National Academy of Medicine Elects 12 from Harvard
- 07 Oct 2024
- News
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
- August 2017
- Article
Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France
By: Céline Braconnier, Jean-Yves Dormagen and Vincent Pons
A large-scale randomized experiment conducted during the 2012 French presidential and parliamentary elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, resulting in unequal participation. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one... View Details
Braconnier, Céline, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons. "Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France." American Political Science Review 111, no. 3 (August 2017): 584–604. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-098, March 2016.)
- Editorial
What the Greek Elections Mean for the Economy
By: George Serafeim
Keywords: Europe; European Union; Competitiveness; National Strategy; Politics; Competition; Government and Politics; European Union; Europe
Serafeim, George. "What the Greek Elections Mean for the Economy." Forbes.com (January 29, 2015).