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  • 02 Dec 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

world's economic woes, debates regarding immigration policies continue. It has been nearly ten years since the topic of immigration was last addressed in this column. At that time booming economies such as... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • January 2017
  • Case

Exotic Interest Rate Swaps: Snowballs in Portugal

By: Boris Vallee, Patrick Augustin and Philippe Rich
This case explores a complex swap transaction implemented by Metro do Porto in 2007. It represents an opportunity to study fixed income derivative instruments, such as plain-vanilla swaps and structured swaps, as well as understand the opportunities and challenges of... View Details
Keywords: Swaps; Public Finance; Structured Finance; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Public Sector; Transportation Industry; Rail Industry; Portugal
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  • 2018
  • Book

American Capitalism: New Histories

By: Sven Beckert and Christine Desan
The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; History; Finance; Trade; Economy; Policy; United States
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  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

PublicationsAttracting Skeptical Buyers: Negotiating for Intellectual Property Rights Authors:James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao Periodical:International Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract An obstacle to the sale View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 2

Political Economy." By: Rithmire, Meg Abstract—The study of Chinese political economy has undergone a sea change since the late 1990s; instead of debating the origins and direction View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Monitoring Public Procurement: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Chile

By: Maria Paula Gerardino, Stephan Litschig and Dina D. Pomeranz
The government is the biggest buyer in the economy of most countries. At the same time, the public procurement process if often thought to be fraught with corruption and malpractice. However, there is little evidence regarding the impact of audits aimed at reducing... View Details
Keywords: Procurement; Chile; Corruption; Public Finance; Public Procurement; Public Sector; Public Administration Industry; Chile
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  • February 1995 (Revised July 1995)
  • Case

Power Play (A): Nintendo in 8-bit Video Games

The home video-game industry began in 1972 with the founding of Atari. After riding a dramatic boom and bust in the early 1980s, most players left the business. Nintendo of Japan then rebuilt the industry--establishing a commanding worldwide position by the end of the... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Lawfulness; Competitive Advantage; Monopoly; Video Game Industry; Japan
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  • 22 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.' " For the past several decades Silk has devoted himself to prying open the black box, understanding the economics underlying the work advertising agencies... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 28 Feb 2013
  • News

Q&A: Charlie Rose Talks to Harvard's Michael Porter

  • September 1991 (Revised May 1994)
  • Background Note

Note on the PC Network Software Industry--1990

By: David B. Yoffie
Examines the economics, technology, customer segments, and competitors of the PC networking software industry. View Details
Keywords: Customers; Economics; Competition; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Information Infrastructure
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  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

the Harvard Gazette about China’s economic woes and how they may affect global markets and investors going forward. Christina Pazzanese: Why were so many caught off-guard by this crash? Weren’t there warning signs that this might happen?... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Crashes and Collateralized Lending

By: Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
This paper develops a parsimonious static model for characterizing financing terms in collateralized lending markets. We characterize the systematic risk exposures for a variety of securities and develop a simple indifference-pricing framework to value the systematic... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Cost of Capital; Credit; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Investment; Framework; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability

By: Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Central Banking; Risk Management
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  • December 2011 (Revised June 2013)
  • Supplement

Bananas (B)

By: Eric Van den Steen
As owner and CEO, Wim Van der Borght had grown Bananas in 8 years from a 4.5 million euro company into a 40 million euro group of companies with a range of field marketing activities in Belgium and the Netherlands. The core of the group consisted of two companies —... View Details
Keywords: Culture; Competitive Advantage; Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive Director View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

Part of the fear and misunderstanding of state capitalism in the post-Berlin Wall era stems from the fact that most observers see state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as inefficient soviet companies. In Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and... View Details

Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Development Banks; State Ownership; Development Economics; Management; Energy Industry; Banking Industry; Brazil; China; Europe; Latin America; Asia
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

  Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Mar 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Credit-Market Sentiment and the Business Cycle

Keywords: by David Lopez-Salido, Jeremy C. Stein, and Egon Zakrajsek; Banking
  • February 2004 (Revised June 2004)
  • Case

Freeport Mine, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, The: "Tailings & Failings" - Stakeholder Analysis

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Arthur McCaffrey
Chronicles the development of Freeport's nearly 30 years of mining operations in Indonesia. Building on a mining concession awarded by the country's government, headed by General Suharto, in 1973, Freeport steadily built its mining output to nearly 200,000 cubic... View Details
Keywords: History; Situation or Environment; Private Sector; Economic Growth; Power and Influence; Business and Government Relations; Growth and Development Strategy; Mining Industry; Indonesia
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  • 17 Dec 2014
  • News

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