Benjamin N. Roth
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ben Roth is an assistant professor of business administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, teaching The Entrepreneurial Manager to MBA students. He is a development economist that employs both economic theory and field experimentation to pursue questions in two overlapping agendas: understanding and relaxing the constraints to small-scale entrepreneurship in the developing world, and understanding how investors should behave when they have both financial and social preferences.
Ben earned a BA in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in economics from MIT.
- Journal Articles
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- Roth, Benjamin N., and Ran I. Shorrer. "Making Marketplaces Safe: Dominant Individual Rationality and Applications to Market Design." Management Science (forthcoming). View Details
- Karlan, Dean, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Benjamin Roth. "Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines." American Economic Review: Insights 1, no. 1 (June 2019): 27–42. View Details
- Book Chapters
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- Roth, Benjamin N. "Market Design Under Weak Institutions." In More Equal by Design: Economic Design Responses to Inequality, edited by Scott Duke Kominers and Alex Teytelboym. Oxford University Press, forthcoming. View Details
- Working Papers
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- Lowe, Matt, V G Nadhanael, and Benjamin N. Roth. "India's Food Supply Chain During the Pandemic." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-070, December 2020. View Details
- Green, Daniel, and Benjamin N. Roth. "The Allocation of Socially Responsible Capital." Working Paper, November 2020. View Details
- Roth, Benjamin N. "Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-078, February 2020. View Details
- Arraiz, Irani, Miriam Bruhn, Benjamin N. Roth, Claudia Ruiz-Ortega, and Rodolfo Stucchi. "Free Riding in Loan Approvals: Evidence From SME Lending in Peru." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-079, February 2020. View Details
- Hussam, Reshmaan, Natalia Rigol, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-082, January 2020. View Details
- Bhattacharya, Vivek, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Rank-Based Elicitation Schemes for Relative Likelihoods of Binary Events." Working Paper, March 2016. View Details
- Liu, Ernest, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-088, February 2020. (Revised November 2020.) View Details
- Cases and Teaching Materials
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- Nanda, Ramana, Benjamin N. Roth, and Olivia Hull. "Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 820-007, February 2020. (Revised March 2020.) View Details
- Nicholas, Tom, Ramana Nanda, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Masayoshi Son and the Vision Fund." Harvard Business School Case 819-041, October 2018. (Revised February 2018.) View Details
- Roth, Benjamin N., Joseph B. Lassiter III, and Natalia Rigol. "Husk Power: Scaling the Venture." Harvard Business School Case 819-069, December 2018. (Revised January 2020.) View Details
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