Publications

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22 Apr 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr

July 2005
Article

The Consequences of Labor Market Flexibility: Panel Evidence Based on Survey Data

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

We introduce a new data set on hiring and firing restrictions for 21 OECD countries for the period 1984 –1990. The data are based on surveys of business people in the countries covered, so the indices we use are subjective in nature. Controlling for country and time... View Details

Keywords: Job Security Provisions; Subjective Data; Unemployment; Employment; Labor; Markets; Data and Data Sets

1978
Chapter

Information Content of Financial Accounting Numbers: A Survey of Empirical Evidence

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Accounting; Information

2019
Working Paper

Information, Globalization and Preferences for Economic Policy: Evidence from Randomized Surveys

By: Laura Alfaro, Davin Chor and Maggie Chen

Keywords: Information; Globalization; Economic Policy

March 1987
Article

Using Survey Data to Test Standard Propositions Regarding Exchange Rate Expectations

By: J. Frankel and K. A. Froot

Keywords: Currencies; Exchange Rates; Asset Pricing; International Macroeconomics; Monetary Policy; Currency Controls; Fixed Exchange Rates; Floating Exchange Rates; Currency Bands; Currency Zones; Currency Areas; Rational Expectations; Analytics and Data Science; Finance

09 Sep 2015
News

Alumni Survey on U.S. Competitiveness: U.S. Economy’s Failure to Generate Shared Prosperity a Concern for Business

Article

Measuring the Effectiveness of Competition in Defense Procurement: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao

This article surveys the literature that has attempted to measure competition's effects on defense procurement. The focus is on conceptual underpinnings of models rather than technical aspects of estimation procedures. While providing valuable insight, the models are... View Details

Keywords: Performance Effectiveness; Competition; Surveys; Value; Economics; Forecasting and Prediction; Programs; Power and Influence; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

Article

The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

By: Josh Lerner and Jenny Lanjouw

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Rights

19 Dec 2014
News

Harvard Family, Work Survey Points To High Expectations, Disappointing Results For Women

02 Feb 2022
News

The Key to Retaining Low Wage Workers? Opportunity for Growth, Survey Says

2014
Report

An Economy Doing Half Its Job: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2013–14 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness

By: Michael E. Porter and Jan Rivkin

In 2013–14, Harvard Business School (HBS) conducted its third alumni survey on U.S. competitiveness. Our report on the findings focuses on a troubling divergence in the American economy: large and midsize firms have rallied strongly from the Great Recession, and highly... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Economy; Financial Crisis; United States

February 2015
Article

What Courses Should Law Students Take?: Lessons from Harvard's Big Law Survey

By: John C. Coates, Jesse M. Fried and Kathryn E. Spier

1998
Working Paper

The Consequences of Labour Market Flexibility: Panel Evidence Based on Survey Data

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

2010
Working Paper

Who Selected Adjustable-Rate Mortgages? Evidence from the 1989-2007 Surveys of Consumer Finances

We find evidence that households selecting adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) during the recent decade were disproportionately those who were less suspicious or who may have had difficulty understanding complicated ARM features that became commonplace prior to the... View Details

Keywords: Household; Financial Crisis; Mortgages; Personal Finance

11 Jun 2022
News

Most Billionaires Don’t Think Employees Will Stay Fully Remote, Forbes Survey Shows

2013
Report

Competitiveness at a Crossroads: Finding of Harvard Business School's 2012 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness

By: Jan Rivkin, Michael E. Porter and Rosabeth M. Kanter

Harvard Business School gleaned responses from nearly 7,000 alumni and more than 1,000 members of the general public. The survey not only provides an updated view of the U.S. business environment, but also illuminates specific actions that business leaders and... View Details

Keywords: PK - 12 Education; U.S. Competitiveness; Competition; Education; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; United States

July 2019
Article

Informal Institutions and Survey Research in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

By: Kristin Fabbe and Matthew Franklin Cancian