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  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

well-established organizations to act in new ways is never easy. This book is designed to support business leaders and organizational scholars who are grappling with this challenge by pulling together leading-edge insights from some of... 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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  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

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
  • July 2009
  • Article

How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By: Eric D. Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed and Charles Cohen
We use oil price fluctuations to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run effect on aggregate... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Aid; Money
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  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

sufficient capital the opportunity to open a bank and issue bank notes (a widely accepted form of paper money at the time). The bill also required that every note issued by a New York bank be fully backed by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By: Eric D. Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed and Charles Cohen
We use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Asia
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  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

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
  • 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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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

By: Eric D. Werker
This extended memorandum identifies episodes of sustained double-digit growth in real GDP, defined as a compound annual growth rate of 10 percent or more over a period of 8 years or longer. Using a measure of real GDP reported in the World Development Indicators, we... View Details
Keywords: Growth; Liberia
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  • 2000
  • Other Unpublished Work

The Urban/Rural Fertility Differential in The Gambia: Explaining the Gap

By: Eric D. Werker
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  • August 2013
  • Supplement

MYTO New Entrant IPP

By: Eric D. Werker
Keywords: Privatization; Energy Industry; Nigeria
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  • March 4, 2009
  • Article

How Globalization's Losers Win

By: Eric D. Werker
Keywords: Globalization
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  • 2008
  • Other Unpublished Work

Testimony on 'Foreign Assistance in the Americas'

By: Eric D. Werker
Keywords: International Finance; International Relations; North and Central America; Latin America; South America; West Indies
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  • 2002
  • Working Paper

Refugees in Kyangwali Settlement: Constraints on Economic Freedoms

By: Eric D. Werker
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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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  • Article

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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  • 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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  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

  PublicationsClusters and Competitiveness: Porter's Contribution Authors:Christian H.M. Ketels Publication:Chap. 10 in Competition and Competitive Advantage: The Ideas of Michael Porter, edited by Robert Huggins and Hiro Izushi, 173-192.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

firms. This history of the course is linked to changes in information technology, financial markets, and the managements of firms as well as related changes in the markets for students and faculty. The Political Economy of 'Natural' Disasters Authors:Charles Cohen and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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