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    Are the 'Best and Brightest' Going into Finance? Skill Development and Career Choice of MIT Graduates

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    Using detailed data on recipients of bachelor's degrees from MIT between 2006 and 2012, I examine the selection of students into finance or science and engineering (S&E). I find that academic achievement in college is negatively correlated with... View Details

    • 15 Oct 2013
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    First Look: October 15

    Publications August 2013 Economic Development and Cultural Change The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?" By: Dreher, Axel, Stephan Klasen, James Raymond Vreeland, and Eric Werker Abstract—As is now well... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal? (joint with Andrew Charlton)

    By: Laura Alfaro
    In this paper we distinguish different qualities of FDI to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. Establishing the quality of FDI, however, is a difficult concept. Quality, that is the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth, is a combination and... View Details
    • 25 Apr 2017
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    First Look at New Research, April 25

    Economics & Management Strategy Measuring Consumer Preferences for Video Content Provision via Cord-Cutting Behavior By: Prince, Jeffrey, and Shane Greenstein Abstract—The television industry is... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • August 2020
    • Article

    Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan

    By: Daron Acemoglu, Ali Cheema, Asim I. Khwaja and James A. Robinson
    Lack of trust in state institutions is a pervasive problem in many developing countries. This paper investigates whether information about improved public services can help build trust in state institutions and move people away from non-state actors. We find that... View Details
    Keywords: Dispute Resolution; Lab-in-the-field Games; Legitimacy; Motivated Reasoning; Non-state Actors; State Capacity; Trust; Conflict and Resolution; Information; Developing Countries and Economies
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    Bank for International Development, Software Case

    By: W. Carl Kester and Timothy A. Luehrman
    A hypothetical case in which an assistant treasurer of a supranational bank is asked to determine in which currencies it has been cheaper ex post to borrow. An integral part of the case is a Lotus 1-2-3 worksheet containing monthly data on yen and dollar interest... View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Interest Rates; International Finance; Relationships; Currency; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Analytics and Data Science; Inflation and Deflation
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    • August 2016
    • Teaching Note

    Mahindra Lifespace Developers' Venture into Affordable Housing

    By: Joseph B. Fuller and Monica Baraldi
    Mahindra Lifespace Developers Limited (MLDL) was the infrastructure and real estate arm of the Mahindra Group, an Indian conglomerate with revenues of $16.5 billion in 2014. Employing 400 experts in land acquisition, design, project management, sales and marketing, and... View Details
    Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Business Startups; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Housing; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Human Needs; Social Issues; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; India
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    • 05 Aug 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy

    Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew C. Weinzierl
    • 16 Dec 2008
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    First Look: December 16, 2008

    pursuing either of the latter two avenues for recourse. Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309022 New York City: Bloomberg's Strategy for Economic Development Harvard... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2007
    • Article

    The Art of Designing Markets

    By: Alvin E. Roth
    Traditionally, markets have been viewed as simply the confluence of supply and demand. But to function properly, they must be able to attract a sufficient number of buyers and sellers, induce participants to make their preferences clear, and overcome congestion by... View Details
    Keywords: Market Design; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Information Technology; Internet and the Web
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    • 04 Dec 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

    link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55322 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 03 Jun 2008
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      Working PapersAccountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China Authors:Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky, and Yu Zheng Abstract Over the past two decades, no two economies have averaged more rapid View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 14 May 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Morality Rebooted: Exploring Simple Fixes to Our Moral Bugs

    Keywords: by Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino & Max H. Bazerman
    • June 2024
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    Valuing the Societal Impact of Medicines and Other Health Technologies: A User Guide to Current Best Practices

    By: Jason Shafrin, Jaehong Kim, Joshua T. Cohen, Louis P. Garrison, Dana A. Goldman, Jalpa A. Doshi, Joshua Krieger, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Peter J. Neumann, Charles E. Phelps, Melanie D. Whittington and Richard Willke
    This study argues that value assessment conducted from a societal perspective should rely on the Generalized Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (GCEA) framework proposed herein. Recently developed value assessment inventories—such as the Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness’s... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Valuation; Cost vs Benefits; Society
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    • February 2011
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    Dividend Taxes and International Portfolio Choice

    By: Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
    This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA) of 2003. An open-economy after-tax capital asset... View Details
    Keywords: Dividends; Portfolio Choice; Taxes; Tax Treaties; Foreign Portfolio Investment; Taxation; Lawfulness; Economy; Price; Equity; Stocks; Investment Portfolio; Opportunities; Behavior; United States
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    • 30 Jul 2013
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    First Look: July 30

    Publications 2013 pub Rx: Human Nature: How Behavioral Economics Is Promoting Better Health Around the World By: Ashraf, Nava Abstract—Why doesn't a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail herself of the free contraception... View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • 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
    • 29 Jun 2010
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    First Look: June 29

    foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the activities of more than 12 million establishments before and after 2008, we investigate how multinationals around... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 15 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy

    to create conditions where helping people might feel good for the actor.” Plus, setting up both corporate and private giving programs properly may lead people to donate their time and money more often, she notes. At a time when economic... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • February 2014
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    Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess

    By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman
    We present the results of an experiment that explores whether women are less willing than men to guess on multiple-choice tests. Our test consists of practice questions from SAT II subject tests; we vary whether a penalty is imposed for a wrong answer and the salience... View Details
    Keywords: Behavioral Decision Making; Microeconomic Behavior; Education Systems; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Gender; Economics
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