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- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF),... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
economic principles or who are not yet highly skilled in English. "We invite these students in early and provide them with an intensive language immersion and acculturation program," Walker explains. "During this period, they get to know... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration into the United States,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
from abroad is substantially more challenging than the economics alone would predict. This paper looks at some of the issues firms moving large assembly operations back to the U.S. have faced, along with recommendations for more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
Children learning remotely often have to rely on parents or a sibling for help. The pandemic has caused the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting more than one billion learners in more than 190 countries, according to a 2020 United View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
Revival of the Fittest by Donald N. Sull (Harvard Business School Press) Your company has been outperforming competitors for years, your charismatic CEO was just featured on the cover of a national business magazine, and your city boasts... View Details
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog
Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 22 Jan 2025 By Faculty View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y Z A Course Title Area Term Quarter Credits Laura Alfaro Global Trade, Capital... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
high levels of reserves acts as a hedge against negative external shocks. A quantitative exercise, in which our model matches features of the Brazilian economic fluctuations and exchange-rate volatility, suggests this strategy to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Turkey. Second, it focuses on the corporate actors, entrepreneurs and business enterprises that have led the national economic growth. Third, it explores the ethical foundations and social responsibility of... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
population is increasing faster than any other nation in history, while its birthrate is shrinking. That double whammy is reducing both the workforce to care for the elderly and the tax base to support its universal health insurance... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
around the country to vie for the title of Space Invaders national champion. Thousands had played the video game, released that year in the United States by Warner brand Atari, in regional tournaments in the months leading up to the... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
explores the emergence of "air taxis," a novel service based on a new class of light, economical jet aircraft that have come on the market recently. "The economics are such that entrepreneurs... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
economies. What is the last country you visited, and what did you do there? I travel a lot, so this answer will be outdated. I recently gave a talk at the University of Ghana on the need for African countries to develop a unified economic... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla Abstract—This paper shows that the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
economic drivers" of business use of the Internet, explaining, "The change in the production process of information is altering the way it's distributed. Information is moving from paper into bits. That is a fundamental change in the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
virus and a refusal to abide by public health rules, according to the article "Gender Differences in COVID-19 Attitudes and Behavior: Panel Evidence from Eight Countries (PDF)" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [div... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
believe it is not only of profound importance to contemporary readers, but also will be seminal secondary source for economic and political historians for generations to come. If you own a copy, keep it. A scholarly grandchild will thank... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
date so far back? Howard Stevenson: I think it depends on your perspective. The discussion about the role of business in society and the responsibilities of business leaders has been going on since Scottish economist Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
brokerages are working on repairing the tarnished image of the sell-side analyst profession while at the same time reconfiguring the economics of that function. Up until brokerage commissions were deregulated on May 1, 1975 (known in the... View Details