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  • 2004
  • Working Paper

Regulation and Reaction: The Other Side of Free Banking in Antebellum New York

By: David A. Moss and Sarah Brennan
Free banking, which first appeared in the United States in the late 1830s, comprised two essential features: general incorporation for banks and rigorous security requirements for note issue. Because the general incorporation feature is what allowed free entry, it has... View Details
Keywords: History; Law; Competition; Financial Liquidity; Money; Market Entry and Exit; Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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    BUSINESS ETHICS: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

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    • 2022
    • Article

    Before Plagiarism: Lawyers and Copynorms in Europe, 1300-1600

    By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert
    This essay uses the concept of 'copynorms', social norms about copying expressive works that can be distinct from legal norms about the same, in order to understand the meaning of intellectual property among Roman law and canon law jurists from the fourteenth through... View Details
    Keywords: Copyright; History; Europe
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Biased Beliefs About Random Samples: Evidence from Two Integrated Experiments

    By: Daniel J. Benjamin, Don A. Moore and Matthew Rabin
    This paper describes results of a pair of incentivized experiments on biases in judgments about random samples. Consistent with the Law of Small Numbers (LSN), participants exaggerated the likelihood that short sequences and random subsets of coin flips would be... View Details
    Keywords: Probability; Economic Theory; Analysis; Incentives
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    • Web

    Business Economics - Doctoral

    Commission, Economist Advisors: Ariel Pakes , Robin Lee , and Dennis A. Yao Andreas Schaab, 2021 Post-doctoral fellow (2021-2022) Columbia University Business School, Post-Doctoral fellow (2021-2022); Toulouse School of Economics,... View Details
    • 2013
    • Book

    Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters

    By: Walter A. Friedman
    The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men... View Details
    Keywords: Forecasting And Prediction; Economic History; Economics; History; Risk and Uncertainty; United States
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    • 26 Aug 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: August 26, 2008

    Law & Economics: The Case of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927 Authors:David A. Moss, Jonathan B. Lackow Abstract In the study of law and economics, there is a danger... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

    By: Michael A. Wheeler

    Disputes between organizations and among individuals are an all-too-familiar feature of modern life. Lengthy court proceedings consume resources, damage relationships, and often yield outcomes that do not fully satisfy the real needs of the litigants. As a result,... View Details

    • 2012
    • Book

    The Rise of the Modern Firm

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman
    This authoritative volume focuses on the rise of modern firms, from their early history to the present day. It considers the role of laws and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives and the firms they... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Economy; Business History; Archives; Contracts; Theory
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    • February 2010 (Revised March 2012)
    • Case

    U.S. Healthcare Reform: International Perspectives

    By: Arthur A. Daemmrich and Elia Cameron
    The national economic implications of rising healthcare costs were poorly understood, even as the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom instituted reforms in early 2010. Presenting opportunities for cross-national policy learning, this case describes the... View Details
    Keywords: Macroeconomics; Insurance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; Germany; United Kingdom; United States
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    • 01 Aug 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: August 1, 2006

    Periodical:North Carolina Law Review 84 (May 2006). We use the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory to explore how changes in the nature of the relationship between law firms and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • July 2014
    • Article

    Smart Money? The Effect of Education on Financial Outcomes

    By: Shawn A. Cole, Anna Paulson and Gauri Kartini Shastry
    Household financial decisions are important for household welfare, economic growth and financial stability. Yet, our understanding of the determinants of financial decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Finance; Investment; Decisions; Behavior; Financial Condition
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    • 29 Aug 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

    Waves No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816063-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 410-139 Managing the Client Portfolio The German country managing partner of a global law firm must... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2018
    • Chapter

    Organizational Remedies for Discrimination

    By: R. Ely and A. Feldberg
    Laws now exist to protect employees from blatant forms of discrimination in hiring and promotion, but workplace discrimination persists in latent forms. These “second-generation” forms of bias arise in workplace structures, practices, and patterns of interaction that... View Details
    Keywords: Discrimination; Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality
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    Placement - Doctoral

    Samuel G. Hanson Talia B. Gillis Business Economics, 2022 Placement: Columbia Law School, Associate Professor of Law Dissertation: Essays in Household Finance and Consumer Protection Advisors: John Beshears... View Details
    • 26 Jul 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: July 26

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-034.pdf Tax Policy and the Efficiency of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad Authors:Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Abstract Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 May 2016
    • First Look

    May 17, 2016

    2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: John A. Quelch. Abstract—The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    individuals and as a species? Video Recording Critical Thinking 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET Speaker: William A. Sahlman , Baker Foundation Professor; Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus The... View Details

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
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      Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

      1954–1973 Donald E. Petersen Ford Motor Company, 1985–1989 LeRoy A. Petersen Otis Elevator Company, 1945–1966 Milton J. Petrie Petrie Stores, 1932–1993 John H. Pew Sun Oil Company, 1912–1947 Joseph N. Pew Sun Oil Company, 1880–1912 Frank... View Details