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  • 2003
  • Other Paper

The Business of Bias

By: Bharat Anand and Rafael Di Tella
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  • 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
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  • 2001
  • Chapter

Shining Light in Dark Corners

By: Rafael Di Tella and William D. Savedoff
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  • November 2004
  • Teaching Note

Spain: Straddling the Atlantic (TN)

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
Teaching Note to (9-705-006). View Details
Keywords: Political Elections; Transformation; Relationships; Labor; Markets; War; Economy; Spain
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  • May 2004 (Revised June 2005)
  • Background Note

Exchange Rate Regimes

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
There are many options for a country in the management of monetary policy. At the most basic level is the decision of whether to adopt a fixed or a floating exchange rate. Introduces the economics behind exchange rates and the debate between fixed vs. floating regimes. View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Policy; Macroeconomics; Country
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  • 2001
  • Book

Diagnosis Corruption: Fraud in Latin America's Public Hospitals

By: Rafael Di Tella and William D. Savedoff
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Health; Health Industry; Latin America
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  • February 2023
  • Teaching Note

The Trouble with TCE

By: Vincent Pons and Rafael Di Tella
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 721-031. View Details
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  • June 2015
  • Teaching Note

The 'Chinese Dream': Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law

By: Rafael Di Tella and Meg Rithmire
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Peronist Beliefs and Interventionist Policies

By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
We study the logic of Peronist interventionist polices and the beliefs that support them. Instead of a comprehensive approach, we focus on three elements. First, we study beliefs and values about the economic system present in Peron's speeches during the period... View Details
Keywords: History; Economic Systems; Values and Beliefs; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Argentina
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  • 2010
  • Chapter

Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond 'Basic Needs'

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985 to 2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries... View Details
Keywords: Wealth and Poverty; Happiness; Human Needs; Income; Adaptation; Economic Growth
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  • 2000
  • Working Paper

Unemployment Benefits as a Substitute for a Conservative Central Banker

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
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  • 2000
  • Working Paper

Empirical Determinants of Chief Political Officer Pay

By: Rafael Di Tella and Ray Fisman
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  • 2002
  • Working Paper

Partisan Social Happiness

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
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  • July 2017
  • Teaching Plan

Populism in America: Fake News, Alternative Facts and Elite Betrayal in the Trump Era

By: Rafael Di Tella and Sarah McAra
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  • September 1999
  • Article

Rents, Competition and Corruption

By: Alberto Ades and Rafael Di Tella
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Competition
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  • December 2006
  • Article

Europe vs America: Institutional Hysteresis in a Simple Normative Model

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
We show how the differences in US and European institutions can arise in a normative model. The paper focuses on the labor market and the government's decision to set unemployment benefits in response to an unemployment shock. The government balances insurance... View Details
Keywords: Optimal Unemployment Benefits; Labor Market Institutions; Hysteresis; Europe; United States
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  • March 2004
  • Article

Do Police Reduce Crime? Estimates Using the Allocation of Police Forces after a Terrorist Attack

By: Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky
An important challenge in the crime literature is to isolate causal effects of police on crime. Following a terrorist attack on the main Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1994, all Jewish institutions received police protection. Thus, this hideous event... View Details
Keywords: Law Enforcement; Crime and Corruption; Resource Allocation; National Security
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  • 2000
  • Working Paper

The Role of Wages and Auditing during a Crackdown on Corruption in the City of Buenos Aires

By: Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky
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  • 2000
  • Working Paper

Inflation and Corruption

By: Miguel Braun and Rafael Di Tella
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  • 2000
  • Working Paper

Rational Institutions Yield Hysteresis

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
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