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    Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs

    This paper examines the short-run impact of the 2025 U.S. tariffs on consumer prices using a unique integration of high-frequency retail pricing data, product-level country-of-origin information, and detailed tariff classifications. By linking daily prices from major... View Details
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs

    By: Alberto Cavallo, Paola Llamas and Franco Vazquez
    This paper examines the short-run impact of the 2025 U.S. tariffs on consumer prices using a unique integration of high-frequency retail pricing data, product-level country-of-origin information, and detailed tariff classifications. By linking daily prices from major... View Details
    Keywords: Tariffs; Trade; Price; Inflation and Deflation
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    • October 2012
    • Case

    Romney vs. Obama and U.S. Energy Policy

    By: Rawi Abdelal and Kaitlyn Tuthill
    In 2012, the energy sector in the United States was demanding major reform. Prices of oil and gas had continued to cripple the middle and lower class as the U.S. economy slowly recovered. At the same time, the U.S. lagged behind developed economies in production of... View Details
    Keywords: Mitt Romney; Barack Obama; Energy; Election Outcomes; Climate Change; Renewable Energy; Political Elections; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Public Administration Industry; United States
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    • December 2002
    • Article

    The Pricing of Event Risks with Parameter Uncertainty

    By: K. A. Froot and S. Posner
    Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Cost Of Capital; Banking And Insurance; Asset Pricing; Hedging; Banking; Insurance; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Policy; Risk Management; Natural Disasters; Insurance Industry
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Bride Price and the Returns to Education

    By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Nathan Nunn and Alessandra Voena
    Traditional cultural practices can play an important role in development, but can also inspire condemnation. The custom of bride price, prevalent throughout sub-Saharan Africa and in parts of Asia as a payment of the groom to the family of the bride, is one example. In... View Details
    Keywords: Zambia; Indonesia
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    U.S. Antitrust Law and Policy in Historical Perspective

    By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
    The key pieces of antitrust legislation in the United States—the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and the Clayton Act of 1914—contain broad language that has afforded the courts wide latitude in interpreting and enforcing the law. This article chronicles the judiciary’s... View Details
    Keywords: Antitrust; Trusts; Restraint Of Trade; Merger; Cartel; New Deal; Harvard School; Chicago School Of Law And Economics; Post-Chicago; Law; Competition; Policy; Vertical Integration; Horizontal Integration; Acquisition
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    • 18 Oct 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks

    Keywords: by John Y. Campbell, Carolin E. Pflueger & Luis M. Viceira
    • 30 May 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?

    prices don’t have to be the same across channels. That gives the retailer more freedom with pricing.” Among the retailers studied, between 55 and 60 percent self-matched prices, and the rest either didn’t state a formal View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
    • 09 Mar 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

    prevalent, and their use will likely receive greater scrutiny as policymakers try to understand the implications for competition. In their paper, MacKay and Brown suggest that one potential policy solution would be restricting the use of... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail
    • 13 Jul 2016
    • News

    The high price of workplace stress

    • 10 Mar 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

    matter where and at what price the money to fund an entrepreneurial venture comes from? The answer, it turns out, is that it does matter—a fact that policymakers may benefit from understanding as they look at ways to generate more... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • Web

    Program Policies - HBS Online

    Exceptions Policy Appeals Disability Accommodations Payment and Refund Policy Changes to a Participant's Enrollment Status Join the HBS Online Community Program Discount Codes Past Participant View Details
    • 11 Sep 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

    policies link price to value for important new therapies. “We’re looking at the extent to which these new German drug pricing laws were able to tie drugs’ negotiated View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
    • 23 Apr 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Corporate Financial Policies in Misvalued Credit Markets

    Keywords: by Jarrad Harford, Marc Martos-Vila & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf; Financial Services; Banking
    • January 2003
    • Case

    Exchange Rate Policy at the Monetary Authority of Singapore

    By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
    The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is responsible for the country's monetary policy, and its decisions are intended to support the country's overall strategy for sustainable economic growth with price stability. MAS has been very successful in managing exchange... View Details
    Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Policy; Money; Singapore
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Testing Limits to Policy Reversal: Evidence from Indian Privatizations

    By: Siddhartha G. Dastidar, Raymond Fisman and Tarun Khanna
    We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004 election surprise in India. The pro-reform BJP was unexpectedly defeated by a less reformist coalition. Stock prices of government-controlled companies that had been slated for definite... View Details
    Keywords: Political Elections; Privatization; State Ownership; Policy; India
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    • July 2001 (Revised October 2001)
    • Case

    Policy Management Systems Corp.: The Financial Reporting Crisis

    Tim Williams, the new CFO of a publicly-traded enterprise software company, attempts to rebuild his company's reputation for reliable financial reporting following a highly visible financial reporting crisis. The crisis begins with an earnings shortfall warning, which... View Details
    Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Capital Markets; Policy; Corporate Governance; Accounting Audits; Technology Industry
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    • Web

    Policy - Business & Environment

    Confronting Climate Change Policy From obstruction to leadership For much of the last 50 years, powerful segments of the business community have opposed government action on climate change. The fossil fuel industry in particular, seeing... View Details
    • Other Article

    Online Discounting: Who is Leading the Race to the Bottom?

    By: Ayelet Israeli, Eric Anderson and Anne Coughlan
    A short review of the finidings in: Israeli, Ayelet, Eric Anderson, and Anne Coughlan. "Minimum Advertised Pricing: Patterns of Violation in Competitive Retail Markets." Marketing Science 35, no. 4 (July–August 2016): 539–564. View Details
    Keywords: Pricing; Price Policies; Pricing Policies; Discounting; Retailing; Retailing Industry; Minimum Advertised Price; Ecommerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Price; Distribution Channels; Distribution; Digital Marketing; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; Advertising Industry; United States
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    • 21 Jun 2016
    • News

    MAP Policy Enforcement in an Omnichannel World