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- 29 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.
Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
although some of these are tradable. This complicated picture raises several questions: How are priorities for government investment—for example, in education, infrastructure, subsidies to specific industries, an apprentice... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
companies' capabilities directly or by removing barriers that limit their abilities to translate these capabilities into valuable products or services for consumers on export markets. But there are other polices like currency undervaluation or export View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
most platform launches fail, what mistakes should managers and entrepreneurs avoid? Yoffie: We see four common problems across the data. The number one problem is how to price the product. The vast majority of platforms require subsidies... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change
fight against coal is the reason HBS Professor Joseph Lassiter is bullish on fracking and nuclear power.) "If we provide economic arguments, we will win this battle,'' Calderon said. "The good news is that renewables are going down in terms of cost."... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
piping. Standard welfare economics teaches us that either subsidies or Pigouvian fines can solve that problem, but both solutions are problematic when institutions are weak. Subsidies lead to waste and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
center of business education and perhaps in management itself. Publisher's site: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8463.html Market Reactions to Export Subsidies Authors:Mihir A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr. Periodical:Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
that subsidies are key, and that businesses require high-powered incentives to tempt them into dicey neighborhoods, any business propped up by subsidies will not last very long, he said. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Galvin, Karen Miller-Kovach, Scott Halpern, George Loewenstein, and Kevin Volpp Abstract—Purpose: We tested the effects of employer subsidies on employee enrollment, attendance, and weight loss in a nationally available weight management... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
tax-deferred account gives an investor a potential subsidy from the government, in the form of a tax deferral, Bergstresser continues. "The magnitude of this subsidy depends on how heavily the assets in... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
achieved is in question. Where, for example, should fiat or regulation ("push"), incentives or subsidies ("pull"), or the provision of new information, education, or even competitive alternatives be employed? Given the... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
To discuss the case's lessons for managers, Abdelal and Alfaro joined forces on an e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Cynthia D. Churchwell. Cynthia D. Churchwell: What are the key issues that managers should know about the Canada/Bombardier vs.... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
alternatives, be expensed. Are companies that choose those alternatives any less deserving of an accounting subsidy than Microsoft, which, having granted 300 million options in 2001 alone, is by far the largest issuer of stock options? It... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
typically each government used artificially low energy prices to keep the population subdued and the revenues from Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales (YPF) to finance these subsidies or worse to line their pockets. Many of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
subsidies are our descendants. If they could vote in Senate elections or in shareholder meetings, they would fire us. Other Articles In This Series Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
grounded in peak-load power generation. We show that production subsidies of higher investment and production cost technologies (such as carbon capture and storage technologies) have no effect on the firm's optimal total capacity but that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
China) in multilateral negotiations, notably in the World Trade Organization's Doha Round. Yet Brazil's actions to enforce a compulsory license of a patented therapy for HIV/AIDS and its victory in a longstanding WTO dispute with the United States over cotton View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent
particularly textiles and agriculture, to compete globally. He said it is estimated that 27 million jobs in the developing world have not been created due to subsidies on farm and textile products in developed countries. According to... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
and its implied elasticities are in the ballpark of a range of micro estimates. We find industrial policy subsidizing either the R&D or the continued operation of incumbents reduces growth and welfare. For example, a subsidy to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne