Publications

November 2015
Teaching Note

Janet Yellen and the Bernanke Fed

November 2015 (Revised November 2021)
Technical Note

A Simple Graphical Framework for Use in The Role of Government in Market Economies (RoGME)

Educators

January 2025 (Revised February 2025)
Background Note

A High-Tech Revolution with Chinese Characteristics: China's Drive Towards EV Supremacy

By: William C. Kirby, Daniel Fu and Matthew Ngai

This background note explains and documents the rise of China's EV industry. Moreover, it identifies the challenges facing it and posits several questions about the decisions needed to be made to sustain the industry's global dominance. Would Chinese producers be able... View Details

Keywords: State Capitalism; Electric Vehicles; Tesla; Renewable Energy; Global Strategy; Taxation; Technological Innovation; Industry Growth; Competition; Auto Industry; China; United States; Japan; European Union

Educators

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

error in judgment? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311063-PDF-ENG The Export-Import Bank of the United States C. Fritz Foley and Matthew JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 211-032... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2013 (Revised January 2016)
Course Overview Note

The Role of Government in Market Economies (RoGME)

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Matthew Weinzierl

This course is about one question: What is the proper role of the government in the market economy? We study the role of government as it plays out in the real world, using vivid case studies from many countries, decades, and policy angles. At the same time, we align... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Economy; Government and Politics

Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Curriculum Matthew Weinzierl & Professor Debora Spar (PMD 62) + More Info - Video Recording – Less Info - Video Recording How can we best prepare students to navigate an uncertain world? How do we make sense... View Details

January 2013
Article

Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation

By: Mikhail Golosov, Maxim Troshkin, Aleh Tsyvinski and Matthew Weinzierl

We examine a prominent justification for capital income taxation: goods preferred by those with high ability ought to be taxed. In an environment where commodity taxes are allowed to be nonlinear functions of income and consumption, we derive an analytical expression... View Details

Keywords: Taxation

Find at Harvard

01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

the family business feel. Professor William C. Kirby and Tracy Yuen Manty The Wen Group Trying to find resolution in a Hong Kong–based family conglomerate that suffers from nepotism and governance issues. Senior Lecturer John A. Davis and... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client demand and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2023
Course Overview Note

Space: Public and Commercial Economics (SPACE)

SPACE is a course with two goals: to use the tools of economics to better understand the rapidly evolving space sector, and to train the next generation of commercial space leaders. We pursue these goals through a systematic study of the growing space economy,... View Details

Keywords: Industry Growth; Aerospace Industry

May 2022 (Revised June 2022)
Course Overview Note

Harvard Business School’s Required Curriculum

2021
Working Paper

The Incidence of the Corporate Income Tax Is Irrelevant for Its (Benefit-Based) Justification

Robust support for corporate income taxation is a puzzle for standard tax theory because the tax’s incidence is uncertain and unreliable. We propose a resolution: if the corporate tax is seen as a benefit-based tax, its normative appeal depends on the correspondence... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Income Tax; Benefit-based Taxation; Business Ventures; Taxation