Border Externalization - Publications - Faculty & Research

2024
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Thy Neighbor's Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization

By: Matt Buehler, Kristin Fabbe and Eleni Kyrkopoulou

To stop refugees and migrants, states have enlisted neighboring third countries to act as buffers, thereby outsourcing border security. With many sub-Saharan migrants transiting North Africa, these regimes there have increasingly served as the EU’s gendarme. Existing... View Details

Keywords: Border Externalization; Border Security; Migration; Sub-Saharan African Migrants; Immigration; National Security; North Africa; Morocco

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November 2024
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Preference Externality Estimators: A Comparison of Border Approaches and IVs

By: Xi Ling, Wesley R. Hartmann and Tomomichi Amano

This paper compares two estimators—the Border Approach and an Instrumental Variable (IV) estimator—using a unified framework where identifying variation arises from “preference externalities,” following the intuition in Waldfogel (2003). We highlight two dimensions in... View Details

Keywords: Econometrics; Casual Inference; Marketing; Economics; Advertising; Mathematical Methods

05 Oct 2011
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Doing What the Parents Want? The Effect of the Local Information Environment on the Investment Decisions of Multinational Corporations

Keywords: by Nemit O. Shroff, Rodrigo S. Verdi & Gwen Yu

Innovation Without Borders; Innovations, Summer 2007

The willingness to connect with an external network is key in an environment where products and services are themselves increasingly inter-connected. We see trends in this direction for a variety of reasons, either because uses of multiple products are complementary... View Details

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By: Debora L. Spar

Managing International Trade and Investment

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

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Strategic Negotiations

efficiencies by developing a systematic approach to managing negotiations Synchronize internal and external negotiations Address the complexities associated with multiple parties and agendas as well as evolving timeframes Negotiate... View Details

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

result, there are meaningful externalities in the mutual fund industry due to cash management. A fund family may coordinate the liquidity management efforts of its funds in order to minimize volatility spillovers from fire sales. Related... View Details

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

of the process of reducing trade barriers and a limitation on it. The European Economic Community (later known as the EC, and, from 1993, the European Union) was formed in 1957, and initially consisted of six Western European countries. It developed common tariffs... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

22 Feb 2024
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Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

nearby Borders bookstore revealed a three-year life expectancy with no available treatment options. And trying to navigate the complexities of the American health care system—bouncing from pathologist to a medical oncologist to... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

meaningful externalities in the mutual fund industry due to cash management. A fund family may coordinate the liquidity management efforts of its funds in order to minimize volatility spillovers from fire sales. See Adi's other research... View Details

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

disciplined look beyond the usual suspects to figure out who might really matter: potential and actual parties, internal and external players, principals and agents, decision makers and influencers, allies and blockers, and high- and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

of externalities became additional features of the debate. The introduction of market imperfection arguments actually introduced significant complications: specialization in the "wrong" activities, i.e. those with lower levels... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

08 Nov 2011
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Saluting Our HBS Veterans

Blake Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Related links Learn how alumni apply military experience to leadership in nonprofits, industry, education, and more. Maura Sullivan (MBA 2009), PepsiCo Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), Executives Without View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; veterans; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Jun 1998
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Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library

My experience in the 25 years I've been in this business is that improved access to information creates more, not less, demand. Information technology, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Borders have all contributed to an increased... View Details

01 Mar 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus

has made extraordinary contributions to education,” said HBS professor Howard H. Stevenson, senior associate dean for External Relations. “He will have a lasting impact on the future of learning.” Batten’s gift to HBS continues a... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

if an entrepreneur decides to sell the business, one group or another is often a willing and able buyer, a valuable "exit" option when public capital markets are underdeveloped. Perez Companc S.A., for example, is an Argentina-based group founded in 1946... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

07 May 2018
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What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries

before. That's for sure. Morrell: You traveled through 54 countries. How much trouble were the border crossings? Tapon: Yeah, in fact, you think about it, you're really hitting 108 border crossings in a way,... View Details

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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog

include 1) introduction and course themes, 2) creating and claiming value, 3) preparing for tough negotiations, 4) dealing effectively with hard bargainers, 5) Two-level games/internal and external negotiations, and 6) Multiparty... View Details

05 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

industry competitors in the physical world. (That way you will always have someone to whom you can feel superior.) Dismiss on-line competitors as ephemeral fads. And don't even consider whether companies from unrelated industries could steal across the View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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