Economic Complexity - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

January 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate policy on the industrial... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

31 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

Assistant Professor Douglas Fearing doesn't have the magic bullet to make this painful part of air travel a thing of the past. But his research on evaluating and improving the performance of complex systems such as air traffic control... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It was proposed by Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder and chairman emeritus of the MIT Media Lab. The time seemed ripe: The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Foundation quickly signed up Google, News Corp.,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

the changing social and economic environments in which consumers live, and that their offerings enhanced people's lives in meaningful ways. A third important factor in understanding how these entrepreneurs created such successful... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part One]

decades consulting to major businesses and governments all over the world, had something to say about this. I surveyed 785 companies, start-ups as well as the global giants, on many continents of the world, in collaboration with Inc. Magazine and the World View Details

Keywords: by Staff

27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

have two types of "sponsors" for their loyalty reward investments: manufacturers of the branded goods sold by retailers, and other partner companies presumably with higher margins, who find it economically advantageous to pay... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

variation in average asset returns than aggregate or non-stockholder consumption risk and provides more plausible economic magnitudes. We find that risk aversion estimates around 10 can match observed risk premia for the wealthiest... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

PublicationsThe Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Publication:Review of Marketing Science (forthcoming) Abstract We address a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

businesses is to generate economic returns, so it makes sense that some motives would tend toward the utilitarian, coexisting with altruistic motivations of business leaders and manifesting themselves in the collaborative undertakings.... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

of firms just above and just below the investment-grade cutoff. These firms have similar observables, including average investment rates. However, flows into high-yield mutual funds have an economically significant effect on the issuance... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

In his chapter "Manufacturing: Lowering Boundaries, Improving Productivity" from the book The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution: Brookings Task Force on the Internet, HBS professor Andrew McAfee, discusses how the... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

07 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

meaningful and economically sustainable," he says. Lassiter's Market-based Proposal His proposed market-based solution? "I think each energy source—oil, natural gas, wind, nuclear, solar, etc.—should have a market price based not only on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

pursue her passion in technology and risk not seeing her family for a long time; or visit her family in Canada or the U.K., and risk losing her livelihood. The question she posed: Would I be willing to sign the ‘no-to-immigration-ban’ petition? “It is a lazy person’s... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809079 Kinyuseisaku: Monetary Policy in Japan (B) Harvard Business School Case 709-056 Toshihiko Fukui, who works for the Government of the Bank of Japan, faced a complex... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

multi-sided markets. In this paper we argue that there is a fundamental unity in the architecture of platforms. Platform architectures are modularizations of complex systems in which certain components (the platform itself) remain stable,... View Details

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

way for people in emerging markets to engage with the Internet, he said. "We think there's a lot of room for innovation here and a lot of room for richness and choices," Kim concluded. "There is no silver bullet in a lot of these View Details