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- 2018
- Working Paper
Trust and Democracy: Leader Turnover during Economic Crises
By: Nathan Nunn, Nancy Qian and Jaya Y. Wen
We study the relationship between interpersonal trust and political stability in democratic countries. Using a six-decade-long annual country-level panel dataset, we find that recessions are more likely to cause political turnover in countries with lower levels of... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Trust; Recessions; Leader Turnover; Political Instability; Culture; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Trust; Political Elections
Nunn, Nathan, Nancy Qian, and Jaya Y. Wen. "Trust and Democracy: Leader Turnover during Economic Crises." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 24187, January 2018. (Revised February 2023. Available also from VOX and in Kellogg Insight.)
- 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
Coates, John C., Jesse M. Fried, and Kathryn E. Spier. "What Courses Should Law Students Take? Lessons from Harvard's Big Law Survey." Journal of Legal Education 64, no. 3 (February 2015): 443–454.
- Article
The Financial System and Economic Performance
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "The Financial System and Economic Performance." Journal of Financial Services Research 4, no. 4 (December 1990): 263–300.
- 2006
- Other Unpublished Work
The Effect of Takeover Defenses: Discussion Paper, Harvard Law School Olin Center for Law, Economics & Business
By: Lucian Arye Bebchuk, John C. Coates IV and Guhan Subramanian
- November 2018 (Revised December 2020)
- Technical Note
Economic Growth
By: Alberto Cavallo, Anne Laski and Florencia Hnilo
Cavallo, Alberto, Anne Laski, and Florencia Hnilo. "Economic Growth." Harvard Business School Technical Note 719-033, November 2018. (Revised December 2020.)
- 1999
- Working Paper
Survivorship and the Economic Grim Reaper
By: George P. Baker and Robert E. Kennedy
Baker, George P., and Robert E. Kennedy. "Survivorship and the Economic Grim Reaper." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 99-088, February 1999.
- June 1999
- Background Note
Competition Between the Professions: Law Firms vs. Accounting Firms
By: Ashish Nanda
Discusses the emerging competition between law firms and accounting firms. View Details
Nanda, Ashish. "Competition Between the Professions: Law Firms vs. Accounting Firms." Harvard Business School Background Note 899-301, June 1999.
- June 2013
- Case
The World Economic Forum's Global Leadership Fellows Program
By: Rakesh Khurana and Eric Baldwin
This case examines a distinctive leadership development program within the World Economic Forum. The program, born out of the conviction that the complexity of global challenges at the beginning of the 21st century required a new generation of global leaders, recruited... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Leadership Skills; Training; Global Organizations; Global Leadership; World Economic Forum; Globalization; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change
Khurana, Rakesh, and Eric Baldwin. "The World Economic Forum's Global Leadership Fellows Program." Harvard Business School Case 413-118, June 2013.
- 2014
- Chapter
Technology, Innovation and Economic Growth in Britain Since 1870
By: Tom Nicholas
This chapter examines technological change in Britain over the last 140 years. It analyzes the effects of patent laws and innovation prizes that were designed to promote technical progress. It explores the challenge associated with the changing organizational structure... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; History; Economic Growth; Change; Innovation and Invention; Great Britain
Nicholas, Tom. "Technology, Innovation and Economic Growth in Britain Since 1870." Chap. 7, Vol. 2 of The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain. New ed. Edited by Roderick Floud, Jane Humphries, and Paul Johnson, 181–204. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- 2009
- Book
Financial Economics
By: Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton and David L. Cleeton
This book seeks to explain finance through its functions rather than its institutions, concentrating on the three pillars of finance: optimization over time, asset valuation, and risk management. View Details
Bodie, Zvi, Robert C. Merton, and David L. Cleeton. Financial Economics. 2nd ed. NJ: Prentice Hall, 2009. (Overview; Translated into Korean and Hungarian.)
- 13 Jul 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Economic Catastrophe Bonds
- Research Summary
Advertising and the Economics of Attention
Using novel technologies, such as eye- and face-tracking, to gauge attentional and emotional (facial) reactions to advertising, Professor Teixeira studies how advertising effectiveness can be optimized. Through complex statistical models of consumer response, he... View Details
- July 2025
- Article
On the Economic Origins of Concerns Over Women’s Chastity
By: Anke Becker
This paper studies the origins and function of customs and norms that intend to keep women from being promiscuous. Using large-scale survey data from more than 100 countries, I test the anthropological theory that a particular form of preindustrial... View Details
Keywords: Infibulation; Female Sexuality; Paternity Uncertainty; Concern About Women's Chastity; Pastoralism; Economic Anthropology; History; Gender; Social Issues; Culture
Becker, Anke. "On the Economic Origins of Concerns Over Women’s Chastity." Review of Economic Studies 92, no. 4 (July 2025): 2303–2329.
- Article
Survivorship and the Economic Grim Reaper
By: George P. Baker and Robert E. Kennedy
Keywords: Economics
Baker, George P., and Robert E. Kennedy. "Survivorship and the Economic Grim Reaper." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 18, no. 2 (October 2002).
- 2001
- Other Unpublished Work
'Pure Accidents' and the Evolving Bias of American Liability Law
By: David Moss and Michael Fein
- 2005
- Other Unpublished Work
Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Economic Activity
By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment
Desai, Mihir A., C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. "Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Economic Activity." NBER Working Paper Series, June 2005.
- January 1978
- Article
Families, Family Processes, and Economic Life
By: R. M. Kanter
Keywords: Family and Family Relationships
Kanter, R. M. "Families, Family Processes, and Economic Life." Supplementary Issue. American Journal of Sociology 82 (January 1978). (Also in Turning Points: Historical and Sociological Essays on the Family, edited by S. Boocock and J. Demos. University of Chicago Press, 1978.)
- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
ballot fraud have erupted and intense focus invested in possible measures to ensure election integrity. States have increasingly enacted voter ID laws as one such deterrent. But we also know that View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Nov 2013
- Conference Presentation
The Political Uses of Economics Ideas: Institutionalist Economics and Managed Competition, 1920-1940
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "The Political Uses of Economics Ideas: Institutionalist Economics and Managed Competition, 1920-1940." Paper presented at the New Perspectives in the History of Political Economy, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, November 2013.