Publications

2001
Working Paper

Using a Terrorist Attack to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime

By: Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky

Article

Informal Family Insurance and the Design of the Welfare State

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

We study unemployment benefit provision when the family also provides social insurance. In the benchmark case, more generous State transfers crowd out family risk-sharing one-for-one. An extension gives the State an advantage in enforcing transfers through taxes... View Details

Keywords: Insurance; Design; Welfare

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March 2003
Teaching Note

Bolivia: Globalization, Sovereignty, or Democracy?

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Huw Pill

Teaching Note for (9-702-086). View Details

Keywords: Bolivia

March 2002
Teaching Note

Strategy of the Firm Under Regulatory Review: The Case of Chilectra TN

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Alexander Dyck

Teaching Note for (9-702-025). View Details

Keywords: Utilities Industry; Chile

March 2000 (Revised April 2001)
Case

Menem and the Populist Tradition in Argentina

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Eliseo Neuman

Argentina has flourished under a fixed exchange rate system, yet there are large income and employment fluctuations. The social cost of unemployment is threatening the viability of the economic model. Building a welfare state is one alternative, but this may be a... View Details

Keywords: History; Governance; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employment; Currency Exchange Rate; Welfare; Government Administration; Government and Politics; Argentina

November 1999 (Revised February 2001)
Teaching Note

Menem and the Populist Tradition in Argentina TN

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Eliseo Neuman

Teaching Note for (9-700-061). View Details

2002
Chapter

Political and Economic Incentives during an Anti-Corruption Crackdown

By: Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto S. Schargrodsky

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Motivation and Incentives; Government and Politics; Economics

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2016
Working Paper

Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance Against Elite Betrayal

By: Rafael Di Tella and Julio J. Rotemberg

We present a simple model of populism as the rejection of “disloyal” leaders. We show that adding the assumption that people are worse off when they experience low income as a result of leader betrayal (than when it is the result of bad luck) to a simple voter choice... View Details

Keywords: Corruption; Betrayal; Populism; Incompetence; Literacy; Crime and Corruption; Income; Ethics; Political Elections; Race; Residency

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November 2004 (Revised January 2005)
Teaching Note

Bahtulism, Collapse, Resurrection? Financial Crisis in Asia: 1997-1998 (TN)

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel

Teaching Note to (9-798-089). View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Asia

October 2003
Teaching Note

2001 Crisis in Argentina, The: An IMF-Sponsored Default? (A) and (B) (TN)

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel

Teaching Note to (9-704-004) and (9-704-021). View Details

Keywords: Argentina

June 2003 (Revised April 2004)
Teaching Note

Inequality and the "American Model" (TN)

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel

Teaching Note for (9-703-025). View Details

Keywords: United States

April 2003
Teaching Note

Argentine Paradox, The: Economic Growth and the Populist Tradition (TN)

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel

Teaching Note for (9-702-001). View Details

Keywords: Argentina

November 2002 (Revised March 2006)
Case

Inequality and the "American Model"

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel

Official data that suggest economic inequality has been mounting in the United States on various dimensions since 1979. Many causes of such inequality have been postulated: technological change, globalization, demographic factors, and changes in public policy (notably... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Wealth and Poverty; Corporate Governance; Social Issues; Government Administration; United States

February 2002
Case

Strategy of the Firm Under Regulatory Review: The Case of Chilectra

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Alexander Dyck

Discusses the largest electric distribution company in Chile and one of the five largest private Chilean companies. Introduces the exercise of operating control in order to improve the profitability of the investments, privatization, and international expansions. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Growth and Development Strategy; Privatization; Emerging Markets; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Global Strategy; Governance Compliance; Utilities Industry; Chile

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

resource for executives and managers at all levels seeking to brush up on their knowledge of macroeconomic dynamics. Information or Opinion? Media Bias as Product Differentiation Authors:Bharat Anand, Rafael View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2002
Working Paper

'Plata o Plomo?': Bribe and Punishment in a Theory of Political Influence

By: Ernesto Dal Bó, Pedro Dal Bó and Rafael Di Tella

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-051.pdf Reputation When Threats and Transfers Are Available Authors:Ernesto Dal Bo, Pedro Dal Bo, and Rafael Di View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2010 (Revised December 2010)
Case

The Market for Prisoners: Business, Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream"

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Laura Winig

In 2010, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest private prison operator in the U.S., was considering expansion options. The company's largest customers, federal and state governments, were under economic pressure to reduce the incarceration rate and... View Details

Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Crime and Corruption; Profit; Law Enforcement; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; United States

March 2001
Case

Corruption in International Business (A)

By: Robert E. Kennedy and Rafael M. Di Tella

Explores various aspects of corruption in international business, in two sections. The first section provides a broad discussion of the ethical, business, and legal aspects of corruption. The second section provides a series of "caselets" that are designed to promote... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Emerging Markets; Policy; Globalization