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  • January 2021
  • Case

Biobot Analytics
By: Raymond Kluender, Joshua Krieger and Mitchell Weiss
In 2017, Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus were deciding whether to leave their labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, put other job opportunities aside, and dive full-time into founding a wastewater analysis start-up, Biobot. Ghaeli, an architect, and Matus,...  View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; City; Data And Data Sets; Personal Development And Career; Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States; Kuwait; Korean Peninsula
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Open Source Software and Global Entrepreneurship
By: Nataliya Langburd Wright, Frank Nagle and Shane Greenstein
Does more activity in open source lead to more entrepreneurial activity and, if so, how much, and in what direction? This study measures how participation on the GitHub open source platform affects the founding of new ventures globally. We estimate these effects using...  View Details
Keywords: Open Source Software; Github; Software; Entrepreneurship; Global Range; Development Economics
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms
By: Laura Alfaro, Oscar Becerra and Marcela Eslava
Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working from home. These features factor into how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the economy. We develop a framework that, based on...  View Details
Keywords: Covid-19; Emerging Economies; Informality; Firm-size Distribution; Health Pandemics; Developing countries And Economies; Economy; System Shocks; Latin America
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
By: Paola Giuliano and Marco Tabellini
We test the relationship between historical immigration to the U.S. and political ideology today. We hypothesize that European immigrants brought with them their preferences for the welfare state, and that this had a long-lasting effect on the political ideology of...  View Details
Keywords: Political Ideology; Immigration; History; Values And Beliefs; Welfare; United States
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Sticky Capital Controls
By: Miguel Acosta-Henao, Laura Alfaro and Andres Fernandez
There is much ongoing debate on the merits of capital controls as effective policy instruments. The differing perspectives are due in part to a lack of empirical studies that look at the intensive margin of controls, which in turn has prevented a quantitative...  View Details
Keywords: Capital Controls; Macroprudential Policies; Stickiness; Intensive; (s, S) Costs; Capital; Management; Macroeconomics
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  • 2019
  • White Paper

Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy
By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed...  View Details
Keywords: Impact-weighted Accounts; Iwai; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Measurement And Metrics; Financial Statements
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  • 2019
  • Chapter

Spatial Agglomeration and Superstar Firms: Firm-level Patterns from Europe and U.S.
By: Laura Alfaro, Maggie X. Chen and Harald Fadinger
We characterize the agglomeration patterns of industries and plants in Europe, distinguishing Eurozone countries and the United States. Using a micro-level index, we quantify the degree of geographic concentration in industrial activities and explore how firm...  View Details
Keywords: Agglomeration; Patterns; Industry Clusters; Europe; United States
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  • 2019
  • Chapter

Characterizing the Drug Development Pipeline for Precision Medicines
By: Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite and Ariel Dora Stern
BOOK ABSTRACT: Personalized and precision medicine (PPM)—the targeting of therapies according to an individual’s genetic, environmental, or lifestyle characteristics—is becoming an increasingly important approach in health care treatment and prevention. The advancement...  View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Precision Medicine
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness
By: Frank Nagle
This study seeks to better understand the impact that government technology procurement regulations have on social value and national competitiveness. To do this, it examines the impact of a change in France’s technology procurement policy that required government...  View Details
Keywords: Social Value; Competitiveness; Government Administration; Technology; Acquisition; Policy; Value
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  • 2018
  • Mimeo

Foreign and Domestic Trade Costs, Product Variety, and the Standard of Living Across Countries
By: Alberto Cavallo, Robert C. Feenstra and Robert Inklaar
We extend the analysis of Arkolakis, Costinot and Rodríguez-Clare (AER, 2012) to allow for differences in domestic trade costs in addition to foreign trade costs. The domestic trade costs are measured by local transportation charges and wholesaling and retailing...  View Details
Keywords: Economics; Trade; Cost
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  • August 2018 (Revised April 2019)
  • Case

Chateau Winery (A): Unsupervised Learning
By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
This case follows Bill Booth, marketing manager of a regional wine distributor, as he applies unsupervised learning on data about his customers’ purchases to better understand their preferences. Specifically, he uses the K-means clustering technique to identify groups...  View Details
Keywords: Clustering; Data Science; Data And Data Sets; Customers; Marketing; analysis
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Economic Integration and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation
By: Giacomo Magistretti and Marco Tabellini
We study whether economic integration fosters the process of democratization and the channels through which this might happen. Our analysis is based on a large panel dataset of countries between 1950 and 2014. We instrument actual trade with predicted trade constructed...  View Details
Keywords: Democratization; Institutional Development; Economic Integration; International Trade; Trade; Global Range; Economics; Government And Politics
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  • February 2018
  • Article

Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
By: William R. Kerr
This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and...  View Details
Keywords: Exports; Comparative Advantage; Technological Transfer; Innovation; Networks; Patents; Residency; Technology Adoption; Trade; Research And Development; Immigration; United States
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  • Article

Capturing Value from Intellectual Property (IP) in a Global Environment
By: Juan Alcácer, Karin Beukel and Bruno Cassiman
Globalization should provide firms with an opportunity to leverage their know-how and reputation across countries to create value. However, it remains challenging for them to actually capture that value using traditional Intellectual Property (IP) tools. In this paper,...  View Details
Keywords: Appropriation Strategy; Counterfeit; Intellectual Property Rights; Litigation; Value Capturing; Intellectual Property; Rights; Value; Lawsuits And Litigation; Global Range; Situation Or Environment
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  • December 2016
  • Article

Social Network Utilization and the Impact of Academic Research in Marketing
By: Stav Rosenzweig, Amir Grinstein and Elie Ofek
The forces that drive the impact of academic research articles in the marketing discipline are of great interests to authors, editors, and the discipline’s policy makers. A key understudied driver is social network utilization by academic researchers. In this paper, we...  View Details
Keywords: Social Networks; Academic Reserach; Human Capital; Country Of Origin; Scientometrics; Social And Collaborative Networks; Research; Marketing; Gender; Human Resources
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  • March 2016
  • Article

An Analysis of Firms' Self-reported Anticorruption Efforts
By: Paul M. Healy and George Serafeim
We use Transparency International's ratings of self-reported anticorruption efforts for 480 corporations to analyze factors underlying the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk....  View Details
Keywords: Corruption; Performance; Corporate Performance; Growth; Sales; Disclosure; Disclosure Strategy; Sustainability; Crime And Corruption; Corporate Disclosure; Performance; Sales
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  • August 2015
  • Article

Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
By: Pol Antràs and C. Fritz Foley
This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how these terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily...  View Details
Keywords: Risk And Uncertainty; International Finance; Financing And Loans; Trade
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  • Article

A Case for Contextual Intelligence
By: Tarun Khanna
In this perspective, I make a case for entrepreneurs and academics alike to focus on what I have referred to elsewhere as Contextual Intelligence, the ability to understand the limits of our knowledge, and to adapt that knowledge to a context different from the one in...  View Details
Keywords: Contextual Intelligence; Institutional Voids; Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Knowledge Use And Leverage; Situation Or Environment; Developing countries And Economies; Entrepreneurship
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  • November 2014
  • Article

The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen
The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of...  View Details
Keywords: Agglomeration; Agglomeration Economies; Multinational Firms And Management; Manufacturing Industry
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  • July 2014
  • Case

Paramount Equipment, Inc.
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Wei Wang
Paramount Equipment, Inc., based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a large manufacturer of cranes and compact construction equipment, aerial work platforms, and food service equipment. Founded in 1987, Paramount now had manufacturing operations in 24 countries. However, it...  View Details
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