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  • 2024
  • Article

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
  • Article

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
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  • 05 Oct 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 26 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

"intellectual property factory" in La Jolla, California in order to take advantage of the free(r) flow of talent. I'm surprised that more Massachusetts companies haven't opened offices just over the border in Connecticut, which... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 May 2016
  • HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

Harvard business and public health students called Consumers, Corporations and Public Health, says food safety is more challenging than ever for three reasons: The globalization of the food business: Food products and ingredients travel across View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

liquidated include Borders Group in 2012, Circuit City in 2009, and Linens `n Things in 2008; the value of inventory sold during these liquidations alone is $3B. The store liquidation problem is related to but also differs substantially... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 23

borders and to allow U.S. multinationals to form new affiliates abroad without the support of local joint venture partners. Thus, this paper points out that immigration can enhance the competitiveness of multinational firms. Charitable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples from companies of all sizes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

landscape and its accompanying expanding advertising options. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707458 Lou Pritchett: Negotiating the P&G Relationship with Wal-Mart (A) Harvard Business School Case 907-011 Describes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49008 forthcoming Accounting Review Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality By: Khan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 25, 2016

prices, and post-acute care costs were measured using either internal costs or external claims as reported by each hospital. Despite having similar patient demographics as well as re-admission and complication rates, the average cost of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

effect of external agglomerations may be overestimated because the existing literature abstracted from internal agglomerations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52181 forthcoming Organization Science Sink... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

90th percentile of corruption are much lower across the board. We make progress towards causality through Granger-style tests and by considering periphery counties where effective tax policy is largely driven by bordering states. Finally,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

Borders By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—Ethnic migrant inventors might differ from locals in terms of knowledge they bring to host firms. We study the role of first-generation ethnic migrant inventors in cross-border... View Details

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