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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
When a Rainy Day Comes: The Economics of Happiness
about 10 percent. The general happiness of the population suffers, too, even among people who do not personally experience job loss or reduction in income. For behavioral economists and politicians, among others, these findings raise the...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
ten years later. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5993.html. How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games When economists watch football games, they see more than flying pigskin and stadiums full of fans. Professor Alvin Roth studied the...
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Chile
results screen to refine your search Country information and data World Development Indicators Economist Intelligence Unit OECD Economic Surveys Chile News Factiva EMIS Alerts available. Click on a country and then click on...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
skills development. Those qualities, known as human capital, provide a better predictor of economic status, says Associate Professor Scott Duke Kominers. “A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility,” authored by Kominers, Kevin Murphy and the late Nobel Prize–winning View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
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Beyond Case Writing
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That’s been the experience of HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government policies. Ashraf, an View Details
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GDP: Contribution by sector/industry
How do I find industry contribution to GDP by country? Economist Intelligence Unit From the View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
result. The latter result, together with transitivity of blocking, leads to an elementary proof of the so-called stable median matching theorem, showing how the often incompatible concepts of stability (represented by the political View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter Illustration by Anita Kunz Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), an Austrian who taught at Harvard for twenty years, was “one of the greatest economists who ever lived, and an electrifying personality besides,” writes HBS...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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The Rankings Game
school in one ranking fail to make the top five in others? The answer lies in the methods the publications use to evaluate schools. The big five — Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the View Details
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Brazil
Development Indicators (World Bank) Economist Intelligence Unit OECD iLibrary: Economic surveys Global Consumption Database (World Bank) News Factiva View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
short-term view while following their emotions. These "irrationals" are less well informed than they imagine (and certainly less well-informed than traditional economists assume). As an antidote to these problems, behavioral...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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A World of Information at Your Fingertips
database of 3.5 million companies, and Vault, a career development Web site. The service also provides seven business research sources without charge, including: databases from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the View Details
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Real Estate Prices by City
filter by transaction details. Or use the trend tracker to find data on properties. Statista - quick statistics Economist Intelligence Unit - time series on the topic by city worldwide. To begin a search, select Data Tool select All...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
countryside, of yelling ‘Timberrrr!’ as daddy cuts down a tree.” It’s the same impulse that led Kok to buy the farm in 1980. A former EPA chief economist who now heads the investment banking firm Johan Hekelaar, Kok was looking for a...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More
down in May. He teamed with prominent economists to study price data from June 2018—the month before the trade war began—to early 2019. Their work combines import and export prices at the US border, collected by the Bureau of Labor...
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- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
needs, creating a situation that economists call a "double coincidence of wants." Roth found that while such exchanges did occur occasionally, which proved their feasibility, they were extremely rare prior to 2004. The market...
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Kenya
page under Region/Country, deselect all and reselect your GEO country. Then enter industry or company keywords. Can search in multiple languages. Country information and data Economist...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
for the course was later published, and Paul asked me to become his research assistant. Working with him was critical to me, because he was one of the few economists at the time whose work really integrated sophisticated mathematics and...
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- 01 Feb 2012
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Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
invest only a small proportion of total R&D money. They therefore charge higher prices and pay lower average wages. An analysis of census data by economists Erik Hurst and Benjamin Pugsley found that companies employing fewer than 20...
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Core Readings - U.S. Competitiveness
Competitiveness” : In this Fortune article , Project co-chairs Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin discuss ways that businesses can take the lead in restoring U.S. competitiveness. “What Washington Must Do Now: An Eight-Point Plan to Restore American Competitiveness” : In...
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