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  • 20 Oct 2020
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Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups

Keywords: by Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Richard Townsend, and Ting Xu
  • 2019
  • Book

The Economic Turn: Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe

By: Steven L. Kaplan and Sophus A. Reinert
The mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an “economic turn” that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. From the birth of new agricultural practices and the foundation of private societies to the sustained and popular theorization of... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Trade; History; Markets; Society; France; Europe
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Kaplan, Steven L., and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. The Economic Turn: Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe. London: Anthem Press, 2019.
  • 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.)
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age

By: Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby and Tom Nicholas
We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking inventors from historical U.S. patents to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940 and to regional economic aggregates. We provide a theoretical framework to motivate the... View Details
Keywords: Economic Development; Patents; Economic Growth; Innovation and Invention; Demographics
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Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas. "The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-063, January 2017. (Revised June 2017.)
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

a nation still shadowed by Mao Zedong’s controversial legacy institute market-based reforms that have made the country the world’s second-largest economic power. He has helped document that journey as the author of scores of cases,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 2011
  • Chapter

The Economics of Housing Finance Reform

By: David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam
This paper analyzes the two leading types of proposals for reform of the housing finance system: (i) broad-based, explicit, priced government guarantees of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and (ii) privatization. Both proposals have drawbacks. Properly-priced... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Housing; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics
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Scharfstein, David S., and Adi Sunderam. "The Economics of Housing Finance Reform." In The Future of Housing Finance: Restructuring the U.S. Residential Mortgage Market, edited by Martin Neil Baily. Brookings Institution Press, 2011.
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Using Internet Data for Economic Research

By: Benjamin Edelman
The data used by economists can be broadly divided into two categories. First, structured datasets arise when a government agency, trade association, or company can justify the expense of assembling records. The Internet has transformed how economists interact with... View Details
Keywords: Data and Data Sets; Research; Internet; Cost Management; Information Management; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Reports; Archives; Surveys; Economics
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Edelman, Benjamin. "Using Internet Data for Economic Research." Journal of Economic Perspectives 26, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 189–206.
  • 01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

POZEN: Offers a plan for overhauling the U.S. financial system to avoid a repeat of the recent market meltdown. Most books about the nation’s financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • Mar 2018
  • Conference Presentation

Antitrust and Voting Trusts in Illinois: Rethinking the Role of State Corporation Law in Competition Policy

By: Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Laura Phillips Sawyer
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Lamoreaux, Naomi R., and Laura Phillips Sawyer. "Antitrust and Voting Trusts in Illinois: Rethinking the Role of State Corporation Law in Competition Policy." Paper presented at the Business History Conference Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 2018.
  • 05 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

information about the risk of future economic crashes and deserve more scrutiny from policymakers, economists, and regulators. The paper emerges after years of persistent... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Currency Unions, Product Introductions, and the Real Exchange Rate

By: Alberto Cavallo, Brent Neiman and Roberto Rigobon
We use a novel dataset of online prices of identical goods sold by four large global retailers in dozens of countries to study good-level real exchange rates and their aggregated behavior. First, in contrast to the prior literature, we demonstrate that the law of one... View Details
Keywords: Currency Union; Law Of One Price; International Prices; Global Firm; Currency Exchange Rate; Price; International Finance
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Cavallo, Alberto, Brent Neiman, and Roberto Rigobon. "Currency Unions, Product Introductions, and the Real Exchange Rate." Quarterly Journal of Economics 129, no. 2 (May 2014): 529–595.
  • August 2012
  • Case

William Jeffrey at Bay Colony: On-Boarding (A)

By: Lena G. Goldberg
The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel are explored in connection with on-boarding, investigating alleged misconduct of, and terminating a company's CEO,... View Details
Keywords: Leadership And Managing People; Employment Law; Business or Company Management; Law; Leadership; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employment; Corporate Governance; Financial Services Industry; Massachusetts
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Goldberg, Lena G. "William Jeffrey at Bay Colony: On-Boarding (A)." Harvard Business School Case 313-045, August 2012.
  • Jan 2014
  • Keynote Speech

Creating Shared Value: The Path to Economic and Social Prosperity for Birmingham

By: Michael E. Porter
Keywords: Creating Shared Value; Alabama
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Porter, Michael E. "Creating Shared Value: The Path to Economic and Social Prosperity for Birmingham." Chairman’s Luncheon, Birmingham Business Alliance, Birmingham, AL, January 2014.
  • July 1998
  • Case

Westport: Spearheading Malaysia's Economic Challenge (B)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Ambar Agustono Bin Machfoedy
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Problems and Challenges; Malaysia
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Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Ambar Agustono Bin Machfoedy. "Westport: Spearheading Malaysia's Economic Challenge (B)." Harvard Business School Case 599-019, July 1998.
  • March 2019
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Joint Culpability: The Impact of Medical Marijuana Laws on Crime

By: Yu-Wei Luke Chu and Wilbur Townsend
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Chu, Yu-Wei Luke, and Wilbur Townsend. "Joint Culpability: The Impact of Medical Marijuana Laws on Crime." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 159 (March 2019): 502–525.
  • 10 Jul 2023
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Why Everyone Is Mad about New York’s AI Hiring Law

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Beyond the Reach of the Invisible Hand: Impediments to Economic Activity, Market Failures, and Profitability

By: Dennis Yao
In this paper it is argued that failures of the competitive market are necessary conditions for supranormal profitability. Three fundamental causes of these market failures-production economies and sunk costs, transactions costs, and imperfect information-are developed... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Markets; Failure; Profit; Cost; Information; Market Transactions; Competition; Strategy; Production
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Yao, Dennis. "Beyond the Reach of the Invisible Hand: Impediments to Economic Activity, Market Failures, and Profitability." Strategic Management Journal 9 (Summer 1988): 59–70. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
  • 2022
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Creating 'Smart' Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation

By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang
Entrepreneurship is a key to unlocking innovation and fostering regional and national economic productivity. Extensive studies demonstrate that small and young firms contribute to innovation and employment growth. But which of the many types of small firms are... View Details
Keywords: Economic Policy; High-growth; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Economic Growth; Policy; United States
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Mills, Karen G., and Annie Dang. "Creating 'Smart' Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation." In The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth, edited by Michael J. Andrews, Aaron Chatterji, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
  • Aug 2003
  • Article

The Economic Performance of Regions

This paper examines the basic facts about the regional economic performance, the composition of regional economies, and the role of clusters in the U.S. economy over period of 1990 to 2000. The performance... View Details
  • June 2002
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Some Simple Economics of Open Source

By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
Keywords: Economics
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Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole. "Some Simple Economics of Open Source." Journal of Industrial Economics 50, no. 2 (June 2002): 197–234. (Earlier versions distributed as HBS Working Paper No. 00-068 and NBER Working Paper No. 7600.)
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