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  • 26 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 26

the infant private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state sector accounts for more than a quarter of the overall increase in labor supply to the private sector... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208029 Chile: The Conundrum of Inequality Harvard Business School Case 907-411 Following the violent overthrow of the Allende regime, Chile embarked on economic reforms that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2024
  • Article

Model-based Financial Regulations Impair the Transition to Net-zero Carbon Emissions

By: Matteo Gasparini, Matthew C. Ives, Ben Carr, Sophie Fry and Eric Beinhocker
Investments via the financial system are essential for fostering the green transition. However, the role of existing financial regulations in influencing investment decisions is understudied. Here we analyse data from the European Banking Authority to show that... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Energy Sources
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  • February 2022 (Revised April 2022)
  • Case

BUA Group

By: John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
BUA Group must decide between investments in cement, road building, power generation, or sugar. Private businesses are important to economic development in Africa. Students must assess the competitive nature of each of these industries, the magnitude of capital... View Details
Keywords: Investing; Transportation; Strategy; Project Finance; Agribusiness; Construction; Infrastructure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria; Africa
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  • February 2013
  • Article

An Activity-Generating Theory of Regulation

By: Joshua Schwartzstein and Andrei Shleifer
We propose an activity-generating theory of regulation. When courts make errors, tort litigation becomes unpredictable and as such imposes risk on firms, thereby discouraging entry, innovation, and other socially desirable activity. When social returns to activity are... View Details
Keywords: Courts and Trials; Lawsuits and Litigation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Theory
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  • October 1989 (Revised December 1989)
  • Case

Deregulation of the Australian Wheat Board: A Commodity System in Flux

By: Ray A. Goldberg
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Goods and Commodities; Markets; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Australia
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  • winter 2005
  • Article

An Experimental Analysis of Ending Rules in Internet Auctions

By: Dan Ariely, Axel Ockenfels and A. E. Roth
Keywords: Theory; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Internet and the Web; Auctions
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  • April 1990 (Revised December 1992)
  • Case

Cut Flower Industry in Colombia (Abridged)

By: James E. Austin
The Colombian Cut Flower Exporting Association faces several problems concerning local government regulations and import restrictions from the U.S. government. The Colombian Export Promotion Agency also faces decisions as to its policy stance toward the industry. View Details
Keywords: Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Business or Company Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Colombia
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  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Showtime

CNBC’s morning business show, Squawk Box, set up on Baker Lawn September 16 for a live broadcast that tapped faculty and alumni views on the U.S. economy. Host Carl Quintanilla and University Professor Michael Porter, who served as cohost, talked with Dean Nitin Nohria... View Details
  • 30 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

unsatisfactory history of capital allocations, acquisitions, and divestitures. But Trian’s $1.8 billion stake in DuPont was worth only 2.7 percent, making it easy for the management team to reject reform proposals. So Trian, recognizing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a North-South product cycle model in which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts that IPR View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

reforms seem unlikely, but we are missing a large opportunity by avoiding them. In general, I hesitate to pass judgment on our tax system as a whole. My intuition is that tax theorists have as much or more to learn from existing policies... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

Successful Change: Ten Insights from the Private Sector By: Henderson, Rebecca Abstract—The aim of this book is to catalyze global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management. It is shown that transformational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

India Arrives

out of poverty, and to do it in the context of a very freewheeling and open democracy. It could be a huge example for the world.” The primary catalyst for India’s economic growth can be linked to sweeping reforms instituted in 1991 under... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

Case 319-046 The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A) In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to decide whether to seek a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Rebates in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Evidence from Medicines Sold in Retail Pharmacies in the U.S.

Keywords: by Pragya Kakani, Michael Chernew, and Amitabh Chandra; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 05 Jan 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel & Jodi L. Short; Manufacturing; Public Administration; Accounting; Service
  • June 2021
  • Article

Symmetric Ignorance: The Cost of Anonymous Lemons

By: Amar Bhidé
Rules that restrict information required in negotiated private transactions have spurred a vast increase in the scope of anonymous financial markets, particularly in the United States. The subtle costs of the information‐restricting rules raise questions about the... View Details
Keywords: Information Asymmetry; Liquidity; Regulation; Securities Markets; Securitization; Information; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

The Cost of Anonymous Lemons

By: Amar Bhidé
Rules that restrict information required in negotiated private transactions have spurred a vast increase in the scope of anonymous financial markets, particularly in the US. The subtle costs of the information restricting rules raise questions about the social value of... View Details
Keywords: Information Asymmetry; Securities; Securitization; Regulation; Liquidity; Information; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Liquidity
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  • 15 Sep 2016
  • News

US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’

for America and proposes federal policy priorities that can form the core of such a strategy. Further, it identifies corporate and personal tax reform as promising first steps in the strategy. However, the authors warn that it will be... View Details