Automatic Stabilizers - Publications - Faculty & Research

2017
Working Paper

The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer

By: Marco Di Maggio and Amir Kermani

We assess the extent to which unemployment insurance (UI) serves as an automatic stabilizer to mitigate the economy's sensitivity to shocks. Using a local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household... View Details

Keywords: Unemployment Insurance; Automatic Stabilizers; Bartik Shocks; Aggregate Demand; System Shocks; Employment; Balance and Stability; Insurance; Volatility; Insurance Industry

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

research here . Related Themes: Credit Markets More Info The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer By: Marco Di Maggio & Amir Kermani SEP 2016 How can unemployment insurance serve... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

School MBA participants, Chen Lian, Yueran Ma, and Carmen Wang support the behavioral argument that reaching for yield may originate from investor preferences. Related Themes: Credit Markets, Monetary Policy & Money Markets More Info The Importance of Unemployment... View Details

2020
Discussion Paper

Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Peter Clinch

This paper aims to provide policy makers, especially those focused on the longer-term growth potential of their countries, with an initial framework to think about their action priorities in the context of the overall COVID-19 response. Our focus is on the... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; COVID-19 Pandemic; Competition; Government Administration; Health Pandemics; Economy; Supply Chain; Safety

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

featured a three-element 135 mm f/11 lens and shutter speeds from 1/8th to 1/60th of a second with an optical viewfinder that folded out. 72 A single adjustment to the lens opening automatically set the shutter speed. In 1952, in addition... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

University technology that stabilizes vaccines into a thin film strip which can be shipped and stored without refrigeration, eliminating the need for the cold-chain. Vaxess strives to not only lower the cost of distribution, but also... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

community. She was recently appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Economic Stabilization Trust by Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. The Trust provides direct loans and guarantees to manufacturing businesses. She is a member of the... View Details

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

scripts , especially if one might be sharing scripts with other persons or when submitting research for publication. Module Naming and Versioning You can load specific versions by supplying the full module name: $ module load matlab/R2020a or let the module system... View Details

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

recognize that there is an optimal dependency ratio range beyond which increasingly urgent action is needed to stabilize social costs and attract investment." Several interesting actions were suggested. Many involved the way in which... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

negative. Part of the brilliance of Land's process lay in rethinking the use of the unexposed crystals. In his instant photography process, a hypo solution carried the silver from the dissolved grains and deposited it on the receiving sheet to form a positive print.... View Details

29 Jun 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

markets, business processes, and organizational structure—and to improve them to achieve growth. Success will depend on leaders who are able to stabilize the company as they identify and exploit opportunities, find new market niches,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Instant Photography Is Launched | Baker Library

and stabilizing operations of ordinary photography into a single, one-minute step that occurs automatically when you advance the film for the next picture. . . . You can have your pictures when they mean the... View Details

09 Aug 2016
First Look

August 9, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51407 The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Amir Kermani Abstract—We assess the extent to which... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money

mispricing in trade imports and exports; country-by-country accounting of sales, profits, and taxes paid by multinational corporations; confirmation of beneficial ownership (i.e., naming the real owners, not frontmen) in all banking and securities accounts; View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union

other thing we can do is pass democracy reform legislation. If we actually ended gerrymandering, if we got more disclosure and small-donor matching on campaign finance as well as automatic voter registration—those reforms would really... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

loss struggling to keep up. Shari Eberts (MBA 1995) is helping by urging industry players to provide free automatic captions on their platforms. In April she launched a petition to that end with some 50,000 signatures to date; in... View Details

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