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    The Academy of Fisticuffs

    The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the eighteenth century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the nineteenth, they paradoxically... View Details

    • 01 May 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Dan Iancu, Stanford Graduate School of Business

    • November 2003
    • Article

    The Macroeconomics of Happiness

    By: Rafael Di Tella, Robert MacCulloch and Andrew J. Oswald
    We show that macroeconomic movements have strong effects on the happiness of nations. First, we find that there are clear microeconomic patterns in the psychological well-being levels of a quarter of a million randomly sampled Europeans and Americans from the 1970s to... View Details
    Keywords: Macroeconomics; Happiness
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    • 16 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Gray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing

    Keywords: by Romana L. Autrey & Francesco Bova
    • 2022
    • Chapter

    Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The case of Wilderness Safaris

    By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Woods and Herman B. Leonard
    This chapter analyzes the entrepreneurial conception and evolution of the Wilderness Safaris (WS) ecotourism enterprise operating in eight African countries. It illuminates a series of factors that contribute to positive environmental impact as well as financial... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Entrepreneurship
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    • 05 Aug 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy

    Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew C. Weinzierl
    • 01 Dec 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

    Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Eric von Hippel
    • 23 Aug 2006
    • Op-Ed

    The Real Wal-Mart Effect

    books that purport to be balanced and coolly analytical raise questions about the company's economic impact. A case in point is Charles Fishman's The Wal-Mart Effect, which describes the company as having a "decidedly mixed View Details
    Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System

    By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
    In 1997, the Mexican government reversed long-standing policies and allowed foreign banks to purchase Mexico's largest commercial banks and relaxed restrictions on the founding of new, foreign-owned banks. The result has been a dramatic shift in the ownership structure... View Details
    Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Balance and Stability; Foreign Direct Investment; Banks and Banking; Society; Economics; Banking Industry; Mexico
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    Publications - Faculty & Research

    the State: Trade Shocks and Informal Insurance in Brazil By: Paula Rettl How does economic globalization affect vote choices? Conventional wisdom holds that voters who lose from economic integration support... View Details
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Collusive Investments in Technological Compatibility: Lessons from U.S. Railroads in the Late 19th Century

    By: Daniel P. Gross
    Collusion is widely condemned for its negative effects on consumer welfare and market efficiency. In this paper, I show that collusion may also in some cases facilitate the creation of unexpected new sources of value. I bring this possibility into focus through the... View Details
    Keywords: Collusion; Compatibility; Railroads; Rail Transportation; Standards; Integration; Trade; History; United States
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    • July 2009 (Revised May 2010)
    • Case

    The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana

    By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
    A U.S. government agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), provides aid to developing countries, focusing on poverty reduction through economic growth. It measures results through an economic rate of return based on increases in farmer incomes anticipated... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Investment Return; Measurement and Metrics; Welfare; Ghana; United States
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    • 22 Jun 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Proprietary vs. Open Two-Sided Platforms and Social Efficiency

    Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Video Game; Web Services
    • 19 Jan 2016
    • First Look

    January 19, 2016

    continued and expanded, with further empirical exploration of a distributed model of innovation that includes communities and platforms in a variety of contexts and with the development of theory to explain the economic underpinnings of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Jul 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production

    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
    • Web

    Faculty & Research

    Insurance in Brazil By: Paula Rettl 2025 | Working Paper | Faculty Research How does economic globalization affect vote choices? Conventional wisdom holds that voters who lose from economic integration... View Details
    • 22 Jun 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Surprising Power of Age-Dependent Taxes

    Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Trade Policy in the Shadow of Conflict: The Case of Dual-use Goods

    By: Maxim Alekseev and Xinyue Lin
    Policymakers increasingly use trade instruments to address national security concerns. This paper studies optimal policy for dual-use goods, items with both military and civilian applications. We begin by documenting that regulation and trade flows of dual-use goods... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; National Security; Trade; Taxation; Financial Instruments; Macroeconomics
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    • 29 May 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

    February 2018 Journal of Accounting & Economics Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk By: Bushman, Robert, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey, and Abbie Smith Abstract—We investigate how the prevalence of materialistic... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 06 Jun 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

    attention trying to figure out ways to fight this battle. Q: Could you summarize your results? A: First of all, let us make a caveat regarding our approach. Our methodology is formal economic modelling. What this means is that we... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology