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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Profits and Economic Development

By: Dan Schwab and Eric Werker
Are rents, or excess profits, good for development? Using industry-level manufacturing data, this paper demonstrates a negative effect of rents, measured by the mark-up ratio, on productivity growth. The negative effect is strongest in poor countries, suggesting that... View Details
Keywords: Firm Performance; Rent; Mark-up; Competition; Manufacturing; Development Economics; Profit; Economic Growth; Renting or Rental
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  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

and Economic Development By: Schwab, Dan, and Eric Werker Abstract—Using industry-level manufacturing data, this paper demonstrates a negative effect of rents, measured by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

multinational firms requires a similar fortitude. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-107.pdf Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Abstract We test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

Structures Authors:Ranjay Gulati and Maxim Sytch Publication:In Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management/em>, edited by D. Teece and M. Augier. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming Abstract During the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=972044 Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Publication:The World Bank Economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

Influence (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:F. Gino and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four laboratory studies, we find that regulatory focus induced View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 23, 2006
  • Article

The Search for Security

By: Raymond Fisman and Eric D. Werker
Keywords: Safety
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  • 2006
  • Working Paper

How Much Is a Seat on the Security Council Worth? Foreign Aid and Bribery at the United Nations

By: Ilyana Kuziemko and Eric D. Werker
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Financial Shame Spirals: How Shame Intensifies Financial Hardship

By: Joe J. Gladstone, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Adam Eric Greenberg and Adam D. Galinsky
Financial hardship is an established source of shame. This research explores whether shame is also a driver and exacerbator of financial hardship. Six experimental, archival, and correlational studies (N = 9,110)—including data from customer bank account histories and... View Details
Keywords: Financial Hardship; Financial Decision-making; Shame; Guilt; Personal Finance; Financial Condition; Decision Making; Emotions
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  • 29 May 2007
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First Look: May 29, 2007

implants and procedures. Refugee Camp Economies Author:Eric D. Werker Periodical:Journal of Refugee Studies (forthcoming) Abstract This paper describes the economy of a refugee camp. Key distortions to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

  Working PapersThe Political Economy of 'Natural' Disasters Authors:Charles Cohen and Eric D. Werker Abstract Natural disasters occur in a political space. Although events... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

and overly restricting access to credit and consumer choice. Nicolas Retsinas, Eric Belsky, and their colleagues aim to stimulate debate based on analysis of the opportunities and challenges presented by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2015
  • Case

Hong Kong: The Pursuit of Freedom

By: Eric D. Werker and Michael K. H. Law
At the half-anniversary of the pro-democracy civil disobedience movement “Occupy Central with Love and Peace” on March 28, 2015, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was contemplating the future direction of Hong Kong. Did Hong Kong need universal suffrage, or were its... View Details
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Unobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem

By: Faisal Z. Ahmed and Eric Werker
Autocrats experiencing a windfall in unearned income may find it optimal to donate to other countries some of the windfall in order to make the state a less attractive prize to potential insurgents. We put forward a model that makes that prediction, as well as the... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Non-Renewable Energy; International Relations; Economics
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  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

novel measure of debt misvaluation. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/Financial_Buyers_v51.pdf Profits and Economic Development By: Schwab, Dan, and Eric Werker Abstract—Are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2008
  • Chapter

Yes, But Weak States Can Be Coaxed Creatively

By: Eric D. Werker
Keywords: Government and Politics; International Relations; Negotiation; Creativity; Power and Influence
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  • July 2007
  • Teaching Note

Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa (TN)

By: Eric D. Werker
Teaching Note to 707019. View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Investment; Decisions; Economic Growth; Private Sector; Balance and Stability; South Africa
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  • February 2024
  • Article

Are Many Sex/Gender Differences Really Power Differences?

By: Adam D. Galinsky, Aurora Turek, Grusha Agarwal, Eric M. Anicich, Derek D. Rucker, Hannah Riley Bowles, Nira Liberman, Chloe Levin and Joe C Magee
This research addresses the long-standing debate about the determinants of sex/gender differences. Evolutionary theorists trace many sex/gender differences back to natural selection and sex-specific adaptations. Sociocultural and biosocial theorists, in contrast,... View Details
Keywords: Gender; Genetics; Power and Influence; Social Issues
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  • December 10, 2013
  • Article

A Market-based Mechanism to Improve Capital Expenditures

By: Eric D. Werker
Keywords: Finance; Infrastructure; Debt; Political Risk; Expenditure; Ghana; Africa
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Power to the People

By: Eric D. Werker

Every nongovernmental organization has a mission statement. For example, CARE, one of the world's largest and best-funded NGOs, explains its mission as serving "individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Food; Service Operations; Inflation and Deflation; Experience and Expertise; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Knowledge; Poverty; Agribusiness; Diversity; Non-Governmental Organizations; Innovation and Invention; India
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