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  • 13 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

double-or-nothing on a diet bet. A group of obese hospital patients agreed to a "deposit contract," banking a small amount of their own money into a pot each day during a 32-week weight-loss trial. The research team agreed to match the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

varied so widely. A policy aimed at strengthening the banking system, for example, might seem to have little in common with a policy designed to compensate the victims of involuntary unemployment. But the truth is that public View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

receive lower satisfaction scores than banks serving customer bases with less dispersed needs. Finally, a longitudinal analysis of the deposit growth of all federally insured View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

$38 trillion. Once again, the inexorable shift in demographics, combined with high and increasing healthcare costs, will result in a widening gap between tax intake and payment outflow for Medicare. On another front, the government is also on the hook for insuring... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

across the United States: proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with bigger firms and fewer start-ups in the middle of the 20th century. We use mines as an instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

with gambling exposure. How would investors in ITP view this transaction? Ben-Gacem also worried about whether Moneybookers could manage the growth of its business and the evolution of regulation around monetary transactions. Moneybookers had effectively become a type... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

the individual but eventually brought ruin to all. The culture of Silicon Valley turns that system on its head. The bank of expertise in Silicon Valley represents a triumph of the commons: resources are extracted and replenished in a... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

lending. In particular, we show that banks cut their lending less if they had better access to deposit financing, and thus they were not as reliant on short-term debt. We also show that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This study focuses on the imprinting of institutional environments,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

Structure in Small-Scale Finance Authors:Carpena, Fenella, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Publication:The World Bank Economic Review Abstract Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has experienced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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