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  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Rx for Too Big to Fail

In the wake of the financial crisis and the massive federal response, it has become fashionable to declare that “too big to fail is too big to exist.” Powerful lawmakers and popular commentators regularly endorse this notion, promising to... View Details
Keywords: David Moss; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs
  • 05 Mar 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

CPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction

Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman & Hoan Soo Lee
  • 2009
  • Other Unpublished Work

When Does Industrial Policy Work? Evidence from the Brazilian Ethanol Fuel Industry

By: Santiago Mingo and Tarun Khanna
What is the impact of a state-led industrial policy program on entrepreneurial activity, industry evolution, and firm competitiveness? How and when is industrial policy an effective tool to spur the development of an emerging industry? To address these questions, we... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Industry Growth; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Energy Industry; Brazil
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  • April 1998
  • Case

Responding to 21st Century Financial Crisis

By: Huw Pill
During the 1990s, financial crises appear to have been almost annual events. Examples abound: the collapse of S & Ls in the United States; currency mayhem in Europe; Mexican devaluation and banking crisis; Japanese banks teetering on the verge of default; currency and... View Details
Keywords: Global Range; Financial Crisis
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  • March 2010 (Revised May 2011)
  • Case

Dubai in Crisis

By: Noel Maurer
On November 25, 2009, the small city-state of Dubai shook financial markets across the world when the Dubai World holding companies announced that it would ask its creditors to standstill its debts. After three decades of phenomenal growth, something had gone off the... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Development Economics; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Dubai
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  • Article

Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Microdata

By: Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun
We explore the effects of planning regulation on the UK retail sector between 1997 and 2003 using micro-data from the UK census. We document a shift to smaller shops following a 1996 regulatory change that increased the costs of opening large stores. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Productivity; Growth and Development; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Cost; Retail Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 11 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

As the pace of globalization speeded up from the 1960s, the term "multinational enterprise" (hereafter MNE) was coined, and there was an outpouring of discussion, much View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

the Harvard Gazette about China’s economic woes and how they may affect global markets and investors going forward. Christina Pazzanese: Why were so many caught off-guard by this crash? Weren’t there warning signs that this might happen?... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 2010
  • Other Unpublished Work

International Capital Allocation, Sovereign Borrowing, and Growth

By: Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych
The key in the investigation of "where" and "why" capital flows, relative to the neoclassical benchmark, is how we measure these flows. The macro literature has been using three main yardsticks: the current account balance, returns to capital, and the volume of net... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Cash Flow; Private Equity; Public Equity; International Finance; Sovereign Finance; Government and Politics
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  • August 2001
  • Case

Finnigan Corporation

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Barbara Feinberg
Finnigan Corp., headquartered in San Jose, CA, was the world's leading producer of mass spectrometers, holding a 45% market share of instruments used for chemical analysis in pharmaceutical product development, environmental testing, genetic testing, and other... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Financial Crisis; Machinery and Machining; Technology Industry; San Jose
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  • October 2001 (Revised January 2002)
  • Case

OAO YUKOS Oil Company

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Joshua N. Rosenbaum
This case presents the history and current position of Russia's second-largest oil company, YUKOS, as it seeks listing on the NYSE as an ADR and attempts to rid itself from a punishing "governance discount" by the capital markets. This is a company with a history of... View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Capital Markets; Corporate Governance; Developing Countries and Economies; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Russia
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  • March 2018
  • Article

Global Business over Time

By: Geoffrey Jones
This article explores how business enterprises have been powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism between 1840 and the present day. It also shows how global firms, emerging out of industrialized Western economies, created and co-created markets and ecosystems... View Details
Keywords: Global; Multinational; Business History; Globalization; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Economic Systems
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  • February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs

By: John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr and Fan Zhao
Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also government policies supporting a rival technology. Wen Yibo has used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major privately... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Service Delivery; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Wastes and Waste Processing; Urban Development; Utilities Industry; China
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  • March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details
Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Trade; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Crisis; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho
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  • Fall 2012
  • Article

Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System, 1997-2007

By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
What is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican government radically changed the laws governing the... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Ownership; Foreign Direct Investment; Laws and Statutes; Developing Countries and Economies; Banking Industry; Mexico
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  • February 2014
  • Article

Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess

By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman
We present the results of an experiment that explores whether women are less willing than men to guess on multiple-choice tests. Our test consists of practice questions from SAT II subject tests; we vary whether a penalty is imposed for a wrong answer and the salience... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Decision Making; Microeconomic Behavior; Education Systems; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Gender; Economics
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  • 09 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

Authors:Benjamin Chiao, Josh Lerner, and Jean Tirole Publication:The RAND Journal of Economics (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • December 2006 (Revised March 2008)
  • Case

The European Union in the 21st Century

By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
Focuses on the challenges facing the European Union in 2006. Following the French and Dutch referendums in 2005, the fate of the European Constitution is in jeopardy. Ten new accession countries have just joined the EU, with Turkey in the beginning stages of the... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Administration; European Union
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  • 24 Mar 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Optimal Deterrence when Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid In Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Video Game; Web Services
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

What Happened to Leadership?

IMMELT: A prescription to fix failures at the top. Sgt. Vincent Fusco/Usma For a speech on “Reviving American Leadership,” General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82) chose a discerning audience: the corps of... View Details
Keywords: Management; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing