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- 28 May 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys
Keywords: by Rafael Di Tella and Dani Rodrik
- 30 Sep 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Comments on Macri's Macro by Federico Sturzenegger
- 26 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others
- 11 Jan 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance Against Elite Betrayal
- 27 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should I Pay the Bribe?
At Harvard Business School, one of professor Rafael Di Tella's areas of study is how political corruption and common crime can be controlled in a variety of contexts. So it was... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
Quarterly Journal of Economics, HBS professor Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani of the University of Washington, St. Louis, and Ernesto Schargrodsky of the Universidad... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- October 2003
- Article
Capture by Threat
By: Ernesto Dal Bo and Rafael Di Tella
We analyze a simple stochastic environment in which policy makers can be threatened by “nasty” interest groups. In the absence of these groups, the policy maker’s desire for reelection guarantees that good policies are implemented for every realization of the shock.... View Details
Dal Bo, Ernesto, and Rafael Di Tella. "Capture by Threat." Journal of Political Economy 111, no. 5 (October 2003): 1123–54.
- 2018
- Other Unpublished Work
Trump's Populism: What Business Leaders Need To Understand
By: Rafael Di Tella
In the 2016 United States presidential election, candidates from both major political parties used anti-establishment messaging to appeal to Americans, a theme that had been on the sidelines of US political discourse for decades. Donald Trump, in particular, played... View Details
Keywords: Populism; Globalization; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Government and Politics; Demographics; United States
Di Tella, Rafael. "Trump's Populism: What Business Leaders Need To Understand." HBS Working Knowledge, March 2018.
- 22 Mar 2018
- News
Trump’s Populism: What Business Leaders Need To Understand
- 2010
- Working Paper
Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others
By: Rafael Di Tella and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
In this paper we present the results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that the second player can accept a side payment that reduces the overall size of the pie). Dictators (silently) treated to have the possibility of taking a larger proportion of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Game Theory; Personal Characteristics
Di Tella, Rafael, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16645, December 2010.
- 2010
- Comment
Does Arrest Deter Violence? Comparing Experimental and Nonexperimental Evidence on Mandatory Arrest Laws, by Radha Iyengar
By: Rafael Di Tella
Di Tella, Rafael. Comment on "Does Arrest Deter Violence? Comparing Experimental and Nonexperimental Evidence on Mandatory Arrest Laws, by Radha Iyengar." Chap. 12 The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America, edited by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, 453–456. National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
Electronic Monitoring Authors:Di Tella, Rafael, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Publication:Journal of Political Economy Abstract We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the re-arrest rates of two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
his doctors and staff? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/610100-PDF-ENG The Market for Prisoners: Business, Crime, and Punishment in the 'American Dream' View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
versus status) for these two subgroups. Distribution and Victim Behavior during a Crime Wave Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
mainly involves a more rapid reallocation of jobs across establishments within target firms. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w17399 Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals Authors:Rafael... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2009
- Working Paper
Anger and Regulation
By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
We propose a model where voters experience an emotional cost when they observe a firm that has displayed insufficient concern for other people's welfare (altruism) in the process of making high profits. Even with few truly altruistic firms, an equilibrium may emerge... View Details
- Article
Anger and Regulation
By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
We study a model in which agents experience anger when they see a firm that has displayed insufficient concern for the welfare of its clients (i.e., altruism) making high profits. Regulation can increase welfare, for example, through fines (even with no changes in... View Details
Keywords: Altruism; Populism; Public Relations; Profit; Consumer Behavior; Perception; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Di Tella, Rafael, and Juan Dubra. "Anger and Regulation." Scandinavian Journal of Economics 116, no. 3 (July 2014): 734–765.
- March 2004
- Article
Inflation, Inflation Variability, and Corruption
By: Miguel Braun and Rafael Di Tella
We present a model where agents can inflate the cost of goods needed to start an investment project and inflation variability increases monitoring costs. We show that inflation variability can lead to higher corruption and lower investment. We document a positive... View Details
Braun, Miguel, and Rafael Di Tella. "Inflation, Inflation Variability, and Corruption." Economics & Politics 16, no. 1 (March 2004).
- April 2011 (Revised February 2016)
- Case
Jamaica's Anemic Growth: The IMF, China and the Debt(th) Trap
By: Rafael Di Tella and Natalie Kindred
This case describes the economic development problems faced by the small Caribbean-island country of Jamaica over most of the past half-century. The Jamaican economy showed relatively strong growth in the 1960s but stagnated in the 1970s. By the end of that decade,... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; International Finance; Crime and Corruption; Poverty; Private Sector; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Economy; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Jamaica
Di Tella, Rafael, and Natalie Kindred. "Jamaica's Anemic Growth: The IMF, China and the Debt(th) Trap." Harvard Business School Case 711-031, April 2011. (Revised February 2016.)