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- 07 Aug 2013
- News
Does the Washington Post Have a Future?
- 31 Jul 2010
- News
Learning to Discount All Those Juicy Discount Offers
- 13 Feb 2018
- News
Is America in a Retail Apocalypse? Ask Yelp
- 26 Nov 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Sciences of Design: Observations on an Emerging Field
- 2015
- Working Paper
Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing
By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Alexander Segura
India's manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of absolute and net employment growth is concentrated in informal tradable industries, and 2) much of this growth is connected to the development of one-person... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; India; Informality; Small And Medium-sized Enterprises; Development Economics; Manufacturing Industry; India
Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Alexander Segura. "Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 7206, March 2015.
- 2012
- Chapter
The Political Economy of Foreign Aid, Bilateral
By: E. Werker
Despite its developmental justification, aid is deeply political. This paper examines the political economy of aid allocation first from the perspective of the donor country, and then the political economy of aid receipt and implementation from the perspective of the... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Aid; Bilateral Foreign Aid; Political Economy; International Finance; Resource Allocation; Government and Politics; Economics
Werker, E. "The Political Economy of Foreign Aid, Bilateral." In Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability: Political, Social, Cultural, and Economic Theories and Models, by Gerard Caprio Jr., 47–57. Elsevier, 2012.
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Program Requirements - Doctoral
second year. The exam consists of an oral portion in which the student will be examined on content from the student’s reading lists. The written component of the special field examination requirement requires students to submit a publishable paper. This View Details
- 27 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake
“Our paper contributes to the debate on how malleable voters’ views might be,” Pons says. “We show that, to some extent, our affiliation as a Democratic or Republican voter comes from influences from our childhood so you can see that it... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- Research Summary
Strategic Human Capital
My research focuses on the links between managerial background, job attributes, organizational/firm characteristics, and firm performance. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how a manager's skills, knowledge, connections, experiences, and other attributes... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business will be conducted in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-based View
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 09 Apr 2020
- News
Managing Through Crisis: Who Needs Capitalism Anyway?
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
New ETFs Attempt to Mimic the Portfolios of Private Equity
- 30 Oct 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 14 Introducing Open Platforms and Business Ecosystems
Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin
- 03 Jun 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Risk Anomaly Tradeoff of Leverage
- Research Summary
Book on Telegraphs:
This is a long-term project that focuses on the economic impact of telegraphs. I have been collecting data on telegraph companies operating in all Americas, especially submarine telegraph companies. The final product will be a book but I intend to produce some papers... View Details
- 16 Dec 2015
- News
What Most Entrepreneurs Don't Know About App Development
- 22 May 2015
- News
The Office is Watching You
- Research Summary
Non-Financial Incentives
My research shows how firms combine many facets of internal governance to motivate managers. A perspective that underlies much of my research is that managers are not motivated by financial rewards alone: “it’s not just about the... View Details