2024

The Dollar versus the Euro as International Reserve Currencies | Menzie David Chinn, Jeffrey Frankel, Hiro Ito  | HKS Working Paper No. RWP24-005 | March 2024

The Cost of Money is Part of the Cost of Living: New Evidence on the Consumer Sentiment Anomaly | Marijn A. Bolhuis, Judd N. L. Cramer, Karl Oskar Schulz, Lawrence H. Summers  | NBER Working Paper 32163 | February 2024

2024 Biotech Asset Valuation Methods: A Practitioner's Guide | Amitabh Chandra, Sumon Mazumdar  | Journal Of Investment Management, Vol. 22, No. 1, (2024), pp. 36–57 | February 2024

Climate action: Implications for factor market reallocation | Robert Z. Lawrence | Peterson Institute for International Economics Working Paper 2024-1 | January 2024

Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates | Marguerite Obolensky, Marco Tabellini, Charles Taylor | NBER Working Paper 32035 | January, 2024

Migration and Sustainability Development | William Neil Adger, Sonja Fransen, Ricardo Safra de Campos, William C. Clark | Sustainability Science | January 8, 2024

2023

Towards a Sustainable Recovery for Lebanon’s Economy | Ricardo Hausmann, Ugo Panizza, Carmen Reinhart, Douglas Barrios, Clement Brenot, Jesús Daboin Pacheco, Clemens Graf von Luckner, Frank Muci and Lucila Venturi | CID Faculty Working Paper No. 439 | November, 2023

Cost of Exempting Sole Orphan Drugs From Medicare Negotiation | Matthew Vogel, Olivia Zhao, William B. Feldman, Amitabh Chandra, Aaron S. Kesselheim, Benjamin N. Rome | JAMA Internal Medicine | November 27, 2023

To Batch or Not to Batch: Test-Ordering Variability in the Emergency Department and the Impact on Care Delivery | Soroush Saghafian| HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series HKS Working Paper No. RWP23-032 | November 2023.

The Surprisingly Low Cost of Free Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment | Apostolos Filippas, John J. Horton, Richard J. Zeckhauser | Nov.  15, 2023.

High and Rising US Federal Debt: Causes and Implications | Karen Dynan | Aspen Economic Strategy Group. Nov.  8, 2023.

Diabetes mellitus and blood glucose variability increases the 30-day readmission rate after kidney transplantation | Agni Orfanoudaki, Curtiss B. Cook, Soroush Saghafian, Janna Castro, Heidi E. Kosiorek, Harini A. Chakkera | Clinical Transplantation. Nov.  3, 2023.

Are Hospital Quality Indicators Causal? | Amitabh Chandra, Maurice Dalton & Douglas O. Staiger | National Bureau of Economic Research WORKING PAPER 31789. October, 2023. 

Ambiguous Dynamic Treatment Regimes: A Reinforcement Learning Approach | Soroush Saghafian | Management Science. October 4, 2023.

Progress in modeling dynamic systems for sustainable development | Noelle E. Selin, Amanda Giang, William C. Clark | Sustainability Science. September 26, 2023.

Feeling uncertain despite knowing the risk: Patients with OCD (but not controls) experience known and unknown probabilistic decisions as similarly distressing and uncertain | Ryan J. Jacoby, Abigail Szkutak, Jin Shin, Jennifer Lerner, Sabine Wilhelm | Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Article 100842, 2023.

Deterrence games and the disruption of information | Siyu Ma, Yair Tauman, Richard Zeckhauser  | International Journal of Game Theory, Volume 53, pages 261–287, August 18, 2023.

Productivity Variation and Input Misallocation: Evidence from Hospitals | Amitabh Chandra, Carrie H. Colla, and Jonathan S. Skinner | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-024, August 2023.

Diabetes Mellitus and Blood Glucose Variability Increase the 30-day Readmission Rate after Kidney Transplantation |  Agni Orfanoudaki, PhD; Curtiss B. Cook, MD; Soroush Saghafian, PhD; Janna Castro, BS; Heidi E. Kosiorek, MS; Harini A. Chakkera, MD, MPH | July 1, 2023.

Ethics Inside the Black Box: Integrating Science and Technology Studies into Engineering and Public Policy Curricula |  Christopher Lawrence, Sheila Jasanoff, Sam Weiss Evans, Keith Raffel, L. Mahadevan | June 22, 2023.

Reevaluating the Role of Race and Ethnicity in Diabetes Screening |  Madison Coots, Soroush Saghafian, David Kent, Sharad Goel | June 2023.

Dollar Rivals |  Jeffrey Frankel | HKS Working Paper No. RWP23-015, June 2023.

Welfare Now |  Cass Sunstein | Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 22-11, June 2023.

Satellite quantification of methane emissions and oil–gas methane intensities from individual countries in the Middle East and North Africa: implications for climate action |  Zichong Chen, Daniel J. Jacob, Ritesh Gautam, Mark Omara, Robert N. Stavins, Robert C. Stowe, Hannah Nesser, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Alba Lorente, Daniel J. Varon, Xiao Lu, Lu Shen, Zhen Qu, Drew C. Pendergrass, and Sarah Hancock | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Volume 23, Issue 10. May 31, 2023.

Vertical Patient Streaming in Emergency Departments |  Arshya Feizi, Agni Orfanoudaki, Soroush Saghafian, Nicole Hodgson | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-014, May 2023.

Debt Distress on China's Belt and Road |  Sebastian Horn, Bradley C. Parks, Carmen M. Reinhart, Christoph Trebesch | American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 113, May 2023 (pp 131-34)

Localizing Environmental Regulation: The Case of Boutique Fuels |  Joseph E. Aldy and Maximilian Auffhammer | Resources for the Future Working Paper 23-20; May 2023

Gender gaps in South Korea’s labour market: children explain most of the gender employment gap, but little of the gender wage gap |  Anna Stansbury, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, Karen Dynan | Applied Economic Letters, May 3, 2023

AI for the People: The Use of AI to Improve Government Performance Mark Fagan | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series, 2023-01

Sustainable behaviour at work: How message framing encourages employees to choose electric vehicles |  Leonie Decrinis, Wolfgang Freibichler,  Micha Kaiser,  Cass R. Sunstein, Lucia A. Reisch | Wiley Business Strategy and the Environment, April 19, 2023

China as an International Lender of Last ResortSebastian Andreas Horn, Bradley Christopher Parks, Carmen M. Reinhart, Christoph Trebesch | Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10380 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group., March 27, 2023

Concerns about Patient Access to Biopharmaceuticals and Outcomes |  Amitabh Chandra, Jay V. Patel | NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery; Volume 4, No. 2, February 2023

Can Inclusionary Zoning Be an Effective Housing Policy in Greater Boston? Evidence from Lynn and Revere |  Rozalyn Mock, Megan Willis-Jackson, Bobby Wang, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Linda J. Bilmes, Brian Iammartino | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper No. RWP23-006, January 2023

Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor? |  Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra, Mark Shepard | NBER Working Paper 30854, January 2023

Satellite quantification of methane emissions and oil/gas methane intensities from individual countries in the Middle East and North Africa: implications for climate action | Robert Stavins, Robert Stowe, et al | January 2023

2022

Have trade agreements been bad for America? | Alan Wm. Wolff, Robert Z. Lawrence, Gary Clyde Hufbauer | Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Briefs 22-17 | December 2022

Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: Human-Based Versus Algorithmic-Based Perceptions, Treatments, and Guidelines | Alireza Boloori, Soroush Saghafian, Stephen J. Traub | December 2022

Algorithm, Human, or the Centaur: How to Enhance Clinical Care? | Agni Orfanoudaki, Soroush Saghafian, Karen Song, Harini A. Chakkera, Curtiss B. Cook | December 2022

Regulatory Incentives for Innovation: The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation | Amitabh Chandra, Jennifer Kao, Kathleen L. Miller, Ariel D. Stern | NBER Working Paper 30712, December 2022

Challenges of effective governance for sustainable development at subnational government levels: introduction to this thematic issue of Public Sector Economics | Yamini Aiyar, Rolf Alter, Linda Bilmes | Public Sector Economics, December 2022

How to save the WTO with more flexible trading rules | Robert Z. Lawrence | Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Brief, December 5, 2022

How Is the US Pricing Carbon? How Could We Price Carbon? | Joseph Aldy | HKS Working Paper No. RWP22-018, October, 2022

The Public Impact of Queueing Theory: From Queen Elizabeth to Internet to Emergency Rooms | Soroush Saghafian | Public Impact Analytic Science, October, 2022

In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries | Jennifer Lerner et al. | Affective Science, 3, pages 577–602 (2022), September 26, 2022

Global and regional impact of solar geoengineering on temperature-attributable mortality | Anthony Harding, David Keith | September 2022

Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet | Gail L. Pooley, Lawrence H. Summers, Ian Vasquez, David M. Simon, Marian L. Tupy | Cato Institute. September 12, 2022.

High Inflation and Fiscal Policy | Karen Dynan | Peter G. Peterson Foundation. September 2022.

Staying the course: Decision makers who escalate commitment are trusted and trustworthy. | Dorison, C. A., Umphres, C. K., & Lerner, J. S. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(4), 960–965.

The Evolving Role of Greenhouse Gas Emission Offsets in Combating Climate Change | Joseph Aldy and Zachery Halem | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-011, August 2022

The Social Costs of Sovereign Default | Juan P. Farah-Yacoub, Clemens Graf von Luckner, Rita Ramalho, Carmen Reinhart | World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 10157, August, 2022

Learning How to Build Back Better through Clean Energy Policy Evaluation | Joseph Aldy | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-010, August, 2022

Busting the myths around public investment in clean energy | Jonas Meckling, Joseph E. Aldy, Matthew J. Kotchen, Sanya Carley, Daniel C. Esty, Peter A. Raymond, Bella Tonkonogy, Charles Harper, Gillian Sawyer & Julia Sweatman | Nature Energy, July 15, 2022

The Contribution of Price Growth to Pharmaceutical Revenue Growth in the U.S.: Evidence from Medicines Sold in Retail Pharmacies | Pragya Kakani, Michael Chernew and Amitabh Chandra | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, July 14, 2022

Playing Divide-and-Choose Given Uncertain Preferences | Jamie Tucker-Foltz and Richard Zeckhauser | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2022-01, July 2022

Bad news for the Fed in the Beveridge space | July 2022 | Olivier Blanchard, Alex Domash, Lawrence H. Summers | Peterson Institute for International Economics

Why gender disparities persist in South Korea’s labor market | July 2022 | Karen Dynan, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, Anna Stansbury | Peterson Institute for International Economics

Arbitrariness Review and Climate Change | June 2022 | Cass Sunstein | University of Pennsylvania Law Review

Comparing Past and Present Inflation | June 2022 | Marijn A. Bolhuis, Judd N. L. Cramer, Lawrence H. Summers | National Bureau of Economic Research

The Welfare Implications of Carbon Price Certainty | May 2022 | Joseph Aldy and Sarah Armitage | Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Ambiguous Dynamic Treatment Regimes: A Reinforcement Learning Approach | March 2022 | Soroush Saghafian | HKS Working Paper No. RWP21-034

The Internet of Things and Information Fusion: Who Talks to Who? | March 17, 2022 | Soroush Saghafian, Brian Tomlin, Stephan Biller | Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Electricity Market Design and Zero-Marginal Cost Generation | February 24, 2022 | William Hogan | Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports

The New Politics of Evasion: How Ignoring Swing Voters Could Reopen the Door for Donald Trump and Threaten American Democracy | February 2022 | William A. Galston and Elaine Kamarck | PPI Radically Pragmatic

How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased? | February 2022 | Leemore Dafny, Kate Ho and Edward Kong | Working Paper 29735, National Bureau of Economic Research

How Tight are US Labor Markets? | February 2022 | Alex Domash and Lawrence H. Summers | Working Paper 29739, National Bureau of Economic Research

The Coming Rise in Residential Inflation | February 2022 | Marijn A. Bolhuis, Judd N. L. Cramer & Lawrence H. Summers | Working Paper 29795, National Bureau of Economic Research

How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased? | February 1, 2022 | Leemore Dafny , Kate Ho, and Edward Kong

Is the Recent Run-Up In Energy Prices Good for the Environment? | January-February 2022 | Joseph Aldy | Environmental Law Institute

The Relative Merits of Carbon Pricing Instruments: Taxes versus Trading | January 2022 | Robert Stavins | Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students and Adults | January 2022 | Cody Cook, Lindsey Currier and Edward L. Glaeser | Working Paper 29645, National Bureau of Economic Research

2021

Employee Health Plans Powered by Analytics | Fall 2021 | Wallace Hopp, Soroush Saghafian, Jun Li, Guihua Wang| MBR Volume 01, Issue 03

Can Gender and Race Dynamics in Performance Appraisals be Disrupted? The Case of Social Influence | December 2021 | Iris Bohnet, Oliver P. Hauser, Ariella Kristal | Scholarship at Harvard

Strengthening Management of UN Peacekeeping Operations: A Review of UN Peacekeeping Operations Audits | December 2021 | Linda Bilmes | HKS Working Paper No. RWP21-037

Behaviorally Informed Mandates? Internalities, Externalities and Fuel Economy Rules | December 2021 | Cass Sunstein

Productivity and Pay in the US and Canada | December 2021 | Jacob Greenspon, Anna M. Stansbury, and Lawrence H. Summers 

Ambiguous Dynamic Treatment Regimes: A Reinforcement Learning Approach | December 8, 2021 | Soroush Saghafian 

What the Federal Reserve should do now: An elaboration | November 17, 2021 | Jason Furman | Peterson Institute for International Economics

Class Inequality in Parental Childcare Time: Evidence from Synthetic Couples in the ATUS | December 2021 | Joe LaBriola, Daniel Schneider | Social Forces, Volume 100, Issue 2, Pages 680–705

Toward constructive disagreement about geoengineering | November 11, 2021 | David Keith | Science, Volume 374, Issue 6569, Pages 812–815

Social science research to inform solar geoengineering | November 11, 2021 | Joseph E. Aldy, Tyler Felgenhauer, William A. Pizer, Massimo Tavoni, Mariia Belaia, Mark E. Borsuk, Arunabha Ghosh, Garth Heutel, Daniel Heyen, Jonathan B. Wiener  | Science, Volume 374, Issue 6569, Pages 815-818

Renewing the future: Excluded imaginaries in the global energy transition | October 2021 | Sheila Jasanoff | Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 80, 102205

Supporting Value-Based Health Care — Aligning Financial and Legal Accountability | October 2021 | Mark M. Zaki, Anupam B. Jena, Amitabh Chandra | The New England Journal of Medicine, September 4, 2021

Do Independent and Parallel Processing Physicians Influence Each Other's Performance? Evidence from the Emergency Department | Saghafian, S., R. Imanirad, and S.J. Traub (M.D.).

Keep climate policy focused on the social cost of carbon | August 2021 | Joseph E. Aldy, Matthew J. Kotchen, Robert N. Stavins, James H. Stock | Science, Vol. 373, Issue 6557, pp. 850-852

The Long-Term Costs of United States Care for Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars | August 18,  2021 | Linda Bilmes | The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University

Optimal Climate Policy in 3D: Mitigation, Carbon Removal and Solar Geoengineering | August 2021 | Mariia Belaia, Juan B. Moreno-Cruz, David W. Keith | World Scientific

Lessons Learned from Sub-National Emissions Trading Systems | June 2021 | Robert Stavins | Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response | Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Lawrence Summers and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala | G20 High Level Independent Panel on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, July 2021

The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States |Marcella Alsan, Amitabh Chandra & Kosali I. Simon | National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2021

Some Costs & Benefits of Cost-Benefit Analysis | Cass Sunstein | Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Summer 2021

Ten Years After: From UN Guiding Principles to Multi-Fiduciary Obligations | John G. Ruggie, Caroline Rees and Rachel Davis | CRI Working Paper No. 78, May, 2021

Some Benefits and Costs of Cost-Benefit Analysis | Cass Sunstein | Daedalus, April 15, 2021

Can transparency and accountability programs improve health? Experimental evidence from Indonesia and Tanzania | Archon Fung, Dan Levy | World Development, Vol. 142, June 2021

Autonomous Vehicles Are Coming: Five Policy Actions Cities Can Take Now to Be Ready | Mark Fagan, Daniel Comeaux, and Benjamin Gillies | March 2021

Digital Messaging to Improve College Enrollment and Success | Christopher Avery | NBER Working Paper No. w27897

Co-Benefits and Regulatory Impact Analysis: Theory and Evidence from Federal Air Quality Regulations | Joseph Aldy | HKS Working Paper No. RWP21-009, March 2021

Recommendations to the Biden Administration: On Regulating Disinformation and Other Harmful Content on Social Media | Caroline Atkinson, Paul Barrett, Lynda Clarizio, Dipayan Ghosh, John Haigh, Thomas Melia, Michael Posner, Vivian Schiller and Clint Watts | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2021-02, March 2021

Investor Rewards to Climate Responsibility: Stock-Price Responses to the Opposite Shocks of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Elections | Stefano Ramelli, Alexander F. Wagner, Richard J. Zeckhauser, Alexandre Ziegler | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2021-01, March 2021

Was "science" on the ballot? | Stephen Hilgartner, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Sheila Jasanoff | Science, 26 Feb 2021

Humility in the Anthropocene | Sheila Jasanoff | Globalizations, 9 Feb 2021

Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Supported Quarantine and Isolation in Massachusetts: The Missing Link in Covid-19 Response | Linda Bilmes | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper No. RWP21-003, February 2021

The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing | Amitabh Chandra, Evan Flack and Ziad Obermeyer | NBER Working Paper 28439, February 2021

Economic Value and Costs of Capital Cities: The Trenton Case Study | Tom Ellington, Michael S. Bruckner, and Linda J. Bilmes | HKS Working Paper No. RWP21-002, February 2021

Vertical Integration of Healthcare Providers Increases Self-Referrals and Can Reduce Downstream Competition: The Case of Hospital-Owned Skilled Nursing Facilities | David M. Cutler, Leemore Dafny, David C. Grabowski, Christopher Ody | NBER Working Paper No. w28305, January 7, 2021

Rethinking How We Score Capital Gains Tax Reform | Natasha Sarin, Lawrence H. Summers, Owen M. Zidar, and Eric Zwick | Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at UChicago, January 2021

The Vanishing Square: Civic Learning in the Internet Age | Sheila Jasanoff | Hastings Center Report, January-February 2021

Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics | Sheila Jasanoff, Stephen Hilgartner, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Onur Özgöde, Margarita Rayzberg | Interim Report, January, 2021

The G20 and the World Economy: Performance and Prospects | Dale Jorgenson | Journal of Policy Modeling, January 21, 2021

2020

Private Roles for Public Goals in China's Social Services | Richard Zeckhauser and John Donahue | Healthy Aging in Asia, 2020

Low-income students lose ground | Chris Avery, Susan Dynarski, Sarah Turner | Science, December 4, 2020

How to Best Use Data to Meet Your DE&I Goals | Siri Chilazi and Iris Bohnet | Harvard Business Review, December 3, 2020

Assessment of the National Park Service Museum Collections Storage Management | Marcus Peacock, Donald Bathurst, Linda Bilmes, Sheila Burke, Margaret (Peggy) Sherry | A Report by the Panel of the National Academy of Public Administration, December 2020

Environmental Benefit-Cost Analysis: A Comparative Analysis Between the United States and the United Kingdom (PDF) | Joseph Aldy, Giles Atkinson and Matthew J. Kotchen | Annual Review of Resource Economics, December 2020

The Role of Retrospective Analysis in an Era of Deregulation: Lessons from the U.S. Mercury and Air Toxics Standards | Mary Evans, Karen Palmer, Joseph Aldy, Meredith Fowlie, Matthew Kotchen and Arik Levinson | Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, November 30, 2020

Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care | Amitabh Chandra | NBER Working Paper No. w28018, November 2, 2020

Making 'Stakeholder Capitalism' Work: Contributions from Business & Human Rights | John G. Ruggie, Caroline Rees and Rachel Davis | Corporate Responsibility Initiative Working Paper No. 76, November 2020

An Economist's Guide to Epidemiology Models  of Infectious Disease | Christopher Avery | Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 34, Issue 4, pages 79-104, Fall 2020

Urban household consumption in China: Price, income and demographic effects | Dale Jorgenson | Review of Development Economics, October 12, 2020

Sustainability Science: Toward a Synthesis | William Clark and Alicia Harley | Annual Review of Environment and Resources, October 2020

Data-Driven Management of Post-Transplant Medications: An Ambiguous Partially Observable Markov Decision Process Approach | Soroush Saghafian | Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Volume 22, Issue 5, Pages 1066-1087, October 2020

The Future of Carbon Offset Markets | Henry Lee | Environmental and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, October 22, 2020

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus | David Cutler and Lawrence H. Summers | JAMA, October 12, 2020

The Impact of Vertical Integration on Physician Behavior and Healthcare Delivery: Evidence from Gastroenterology Practices | Joseph Newhouse, Soroush Saghafian | HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-031, October 2020

Trade Surplus or Deficit? Neither Matters for Changes in Manufacturing Employment Shares | Robert Z. Lawrence | Peterson Institute for International Economics, September 2020

Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission: Year in Review | Anthony Saich | U.S.-China Economic and Security Review, September 9, 2020

Owning, Using, and Renting: Some Simple Economics of the 'Sharing Economy' | Richard Zeckhauser | Management Science, Volume 66, Issue 9, Pages 4152-4172, September 2020

Rethinking U.S. National Security After COVID-19 | Linda Bilmes | Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy

The Debt Pandemic | Jeremy Bulow, Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff, Christoph Trebesch | Finance and Development, September, 2020

COVID-19: Health and Economic Impacts of Societal Intervention Policies in the U.S. | Soroush Saghafian | HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-027

What Can Economics Say About Alzheimer's Disease? | Amitabh Chandra | NBER Working Paper No. w27760

Moving the Financing of Graduate Medical Education Into the 21st Century | Amitabh Chandra | JAMA, August 26, 2020

Do We Spend Too Much on Health Care?| Amitabh Chandra | New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 383, Issue 7, Pages 605-608, August 2020

Allocation of COVID-19 Relief Funding to Disproportionately Black Counties | Amitabh Chandra | JAMA, August 2020

Deterrence Games and the Disruption of Information | Richard Zeckhauser | HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-026, August 2020

Using Machine Learning to Demystify Startups Funding, Post-Money Valuation, and Success | Soroush Saghafian | HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-028, August 2020

Theorizing the Resilience District: Design-based Decision Making for Coastal Climate Change Adpatation | Richard Zeckhauser | Journal of Landscape Architecture, Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 16-17, July 2020

US Unemployment Insurance in the Pandemic and Beyond | Jason Furman | Peterson Institute for International Economics, July 2020

Understanding the Revenue Potential of Tax Compliance Investment | Lawrence H. Summers, Natasha Sarin | NBER Working Paper No. 27571, July 2020

Rolling the Dice in the Corridors of Power: William Nordhaus's Impacts on Climate Change Policy | Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2020-04, July 2020

Sunlight and Protection Against Influenza | Alexander F. Wagner, David J. G. Slusky, Richard J. Zeckhauser | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2020-03, July 2020

Student Loan Burdens and What To Do About Them | Karen Dynan | Business Economics, June 2020

The Unemployment Pandemic: Addressing America's Jobs Crisis | Jason Furman | Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, June 18, 2020

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Which Firms Won? Which Lost? | Alexander F. Wagner, Richard J. Zeckhauser, Alexandre Ziegler | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2020-02, June 2020

Integrated Corporate Governance: A Practical Guide to Stakeholder Capitalism for Boards of Directors | Richard Samans and Jane Nelson | World Economic Forum White Paper, June 2020

Coping with Disasters: Two Centuries of International Official Lending | Carmen Reinhart | National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2020

Why Is the Euro Punching Below Its Weight? | Ethan Ilzetzki, Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff | NBER Working Paper No. 26760, May 2020

The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis: An Explanation for the Recent Evolution of the American Economy | Lawrence H. Summers, Anna Stansbury | National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2020

Fiscal policy responses to economic inequality | Jason Furman and Douglas Holtz-Eakin | Business Economics, May 24, 2020

Constitutionalism at the Nexus of Life and Law | Sheila Jasanoff | Sage Journals: Science, Technology and Human Values, May 2020

Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus: Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists | Christopher Avery, William Bossert, Adam Clark, Glenn Ellison, Sarah Fisher Ellison | NBER Working Paper No. 27007, April 2020

Three Prongs for Prudent Climate Policy | Joseph Aldy, Richard Zeckhauser | NBER Working Paper No. 26991, April 2020

Deep flaws in a mercury regulatory analysis | Joseph Aldy, Matthew Kotchen, Mary Evans, Meredith Fowlie, Arik Levinson, Karen Palmer | Science, 09 April 2020 

Toll-Managed Lane Pioneers: Lessons from Five U.S. States | Emily Schwimmer, Jose Gomez-Ibanez, Carter Casady | Case Studies on Transport Policy 7, no. 3: 655-666 | March 2020

The Paradox of Corporate Globalization: Disembedding and Reembedding Governing Norms | John Gerard Ruggie | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2020-01 | March 2020

Rebates in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Evidence From Medicine S old In Retail Pharmacies in the US | NBER Working Paper No. 26846 | March 2020

Subnational Climate Change Policy in China | Harvard Project on Climate Agreements | February 2020

Automatic stabilizers in a low-rate environment | Olivier J. Blanchard and Lawrence H. Summers | Policy Briefs PB20-2, Peterson Institute for International Economics

How to Increase Growth while Raising Revenue: Reforming the Corporate Tax Code | Jason Furman | The Hamilton Project

Tax Reform for Progressivity: A Pragmatic Approach | Natasha Sarin, Lawrence H. Summers, Joe Kupferberg | The Hamilton Project

National Fiscal Policies to Fight Recessions in U.S. States | Karen Dynan and Doug Elmendorf

Looking Back at Fifty Years of the Clean Air Act | Joseph Aldy | Resources for the Future

2019

The $64 Billion Massachusetts Vehicle Economy | Stevie Olson, Phil Berkaw, Lucien Charland, Elizabeth Patton, Linda Bilmes | HKS Working Paper No. RWP-038

Report on the Proposed Changes to the Federal Mercury and Air Toxics Standards | Joseph Aldy, et al | External Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, December, 2019

The Property Rights Theory of Production Networks | Maciej Kotowski | HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-033, November 2019

Shrinking the Tax Gap: Approaches and Revenue Potential | Lawrence H. Summers and Natasha Sarin | NBER Working Paper No. 26475, November, 2019

Bound to Happen: Explanation Bias in Historical Analysis | Richard Zeckhauser | HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-032, October 2019

Measuring Household Wealth in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: The Role of Retirement Assets | Karen Dynan | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, September 2019

A Perfectly Robust Approach to Multiperiod Matching Problems | Maciej Kotowski | HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-016, August 2019

Public Information is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections | Abhijit Banerjee, Nils Enevoldsen, Rohini Pande and Michael Walton

Economic Principles for Medicare Reform | Amitabh Chandra and Craig Garthwaite | The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

First-Price Auctions with Budget Constraints | Maciej Kotowski | HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-021

The Economic Context for Reforming the Safety Net | Karen Dynan | The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Corporate Identity in Play: The Role of ESG Investing | John Ruggie | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2019-05

Toward new models of leadership and partnership | Jane Nelson | Chapter 3 in Perspectives on Impact: Leading Voices on Making Systemic Change in the Twenty-First Century, published by Routledge

No Smallholder Farmer Left Behind | Jane Nelson | Chapter 4 in Leave No One Behind: Time for Specifics on the Sustainable Development Goals, published September 2019

On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms | Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, Charity Moore | NBER Working Paper No. w26294

Systems Leadership for Sustainable Development: Strategies for Achieving Systemic Change | Lisa Drier, David Nabarro and Jane Nelson | CRI Report, September 2019

Policies and payoffs to addressing America's college graduation deficit. Christopher Avery, Jessica Howell, Matea Pender and Bruce Sacerdote | Brookings, Fall 2019

China's Overseas Lending. Sebastian Horn, Carmen Reinhart, Christoph Trebesch | CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13867

Italian Renaissance Portraits that Disappoint: Isabella d’Este, Francesco del Giocondo and Other Displeased Patrons. Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard Zeckhauser | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2019-04

Decision Science Meets National Security: A Personal Perspective. Jennifer Lerner | Perspectives on Psychological Science 14.1 (2019): 96-100

Can Science Make Sense of Life? Sheila Jasanoff | Polity, 2019

Towards a Conceptual Model of Affective Predictions in Palliative Care. Jennifer Lerner | Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2019

Development Strategies Available to North Korea and Their Political Risks. Dwight Perkins | North Korea: Peace? Nuclear War? 2019

Strategic Sorting: The Role of Ordeals in Health Care. Richard Zeckhauser | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2019-03

The Future of U.S. Carbon-Pricing Policy. Robert N. Stavins | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2019-02

Transitioning to Long-Run Effective and Efficient Climate Policies. Robert N. Stavins, Todd Schatzki, Rebecca Scott | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2019-01

Recent U.S. Economic Performance and Prospects for Future Growth. Dale Jorgenson | Journal of Policy Modeling | April 2, 2019

Unlocking digital competition, Report of the Digital Competition Expert Panel. Jason Furman | HM Treasury | March 13, 2019

On falling neutral real rates, fiscal policy, and the risk of secular stagnation. Lawrence H. Summers and Łukasz Rachel | Brookings | March 7, 2019

Economic Strategy for Higher Wages and Expanded Labor Participation. Jason Furman and Phillip Swagel | Aspen Institute, February 2019

Measuring China's Economic Reform Progress. Dwight Perkins | China Economic Review 53 (February 2019): 342-350.

Managerial Control and Executive Compensation. F. M. Scherer | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP19-022, January 2019

Can Transparency and Accountability Programs Improve Health? Experimental Evidence from Indonesia and Tanzania. Jean Arkedis, Jessica Creighton, Akshay Dixit, Archon Fung, Stephen Kosack and Dan Levy | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP19-020, June 2019

Efficient Division When Preferences are Private: Using the Expected Externality Mechanism. Christina Aperjis, Maciej Kotowski and Richard Zeckhauser | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP19-014, April 2019

Birds of a Feather: Estimating the Value of Statistical Life from Duel-Earner Families. Joseph Aldy | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP19-013, April 2019

To Serve the People: Income, Region and Citizen Attitudes Towards Governance in China (2003-2016). Jesse Turiel, Edward Cunningham and Anthony Saich | The China Quarterly (April 2019): 1-30.

Market Design Practices: Which Ones are Best? William Hogan | IEEE Power & Energy. January/February 2019

Sovereign Bonds Since Waterloo. Josefin Meyer, Carmen Reinhart and Christopher Trebesch | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP19-009, February 2019

Informational Inequity Aversion and Performance. Iris Bohnet and Farzad Saidi | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP19-008, February 2019

Descriptive Norms and Gender Diversity: Reactance from Men. Maliheh Paryavi, Iris Bohnet and Alexandra van Geen | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP19-007, February 2019

Negative Nominal Interest Rates and the Bank Lending Channel. Gauti B. Eggertsson, Ragnar Juelsrud, Lawrence H. Summer and Ella Getz Wold | Norges Bank Working Paper, February 2019

Financial Crises: Past and Future. Carmen Reinhart | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP19-005, February 2019

The Curious Case of the Missing Defaults. Carmen Reinhart | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP19-004, February 2019

Should the Fed Be Constrained? Jeffrey Frankel | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP19-003, February 2019

2018

Problem-Oriented Policing: Matching the Science to the Art. Malcolm Sparrow | Crime Science 7.1 (December 2018)

The 2017 Tax Law: A Boost to Growth or a Missed Opportunity? Jason Furman | Capitalism & Society: Vol. 13: Iss. 2, Article 2

Ending Global Poverty: Why Money Isn't Enough. Lucy Page and Rohini Pande | Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 32, Number 4, Fall 2018

Confronting Deep and Persistent Climate Uncertainty. Gernot Wagner and Richard Zeckhauser | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2018-05

Policy Evolution Under the Clean Air Act. Richard Schmalensee and Robert Stavins | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2018-04

GHG Cap-and-Trade: Implications for Effective and Efficient Climate Policy in Oregon. Todd Schatzki and Robert Stavins | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2018-03

A Tough Call: Understanding barriers to and impacts of women's mobile phone adoption in India. Giorgia Barboni, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner and Charity Troyer Moore | Harvard Kennedy School Evidence for Policy Design, October 2018

The Crisis Next Time: What We Should Have Learned from 2008. Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart | Foreign Affairs, November/December 2018

Can the Trading System Survive US-China Trade Friction? Robert Z. Lawrence | China & World Economy Volume 26, Issue 5, September 13, 2018

Responding to the Global Financial Crisis: What We Did and Why We Did It. Jason Furman | Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy at Brookings, September 11-12, 2018

Stock Price Rewards to Climate Saints and Sinners: Evidence from the Trump Election. Stefano Ramelli, Alexander F. Wagner, Richard Zeckhauser and Alexandre Ziegler. | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-037, September 2018

Aging, output per capita and secular stagnation. Gauti Eggertsson, Manuel Lancastre, and Lawrence H. Summers | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 24902, August 2018

Key Issues Facing California's GHG Cap-and-Trade System for 2021-2030
Todd Schatzki and Robert Stavins | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2018-02

Money, Millennials and Human Rights: Sustaining 'Sustainable Investing'
John G. Ruggie and Emily K. Middleton | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series No. 2018-01

Rethinking the Fed's 2 percent inflation target
Lawrence H. Summers, David Wessel and John David Murray | Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy at Brookings, June 2018

Slower Productivity and Higher Inequality: Are They Related? 
Jason Furman and Peter Orszag | Peterson Institute For International Economics Working Paper 18-4

AI and the Economy
Jason Furman and Robert Seamans | NBER Working Paper No. w24689

Company Stock Price Reactions to the 2016 Election Shock: Trump, Taxes, and Trade
Alexander F. Wagner, Alexandre Ziegler, and Richard Zeckhauser | Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming

Health Care Employment Growth and the Future of US Cost Containment
Jonathan Skinner and Amitabh Chandra | Journal of the American Medical Association, 319.18, May 2018

Unequal Rewards to Firms: Stock Market Responses to the Trump Election and the 2017 Corporate Tax Reform
Alexander F. Wagner, Alexandre Ziegler, and Richard Zeckhauser | American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings 2018

Learning from Nationally Determined Contributions
Keigo Akimoto, Joseph E. Aldy, Lara Aleluia Reis, Carlo Carraro, Billy Pizer, Massimo Tavoni | CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12757

Charging the Future: Challenges and Opportunities for Electric Vehicle Adoption
Henry Lee and Alex Clark | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-026, September 2018

Key Issues Facing California's GHG Cap-and-Trade System for 2021-2030
Todd Schatzki and Robert N. Stavins | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-025, July 2018

Linking Climate Policies to Advance Global Mitigation
Michael Mehling, Gilbert E. Metcalf and Robert N. Stavins | Science 359.6379, March 2018

Investment versus Output Subsidies: Implications of Alternative Incentives for Wind Energy
Joseph Aldy, Todd Gerarden and Richard Sweeney | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-012, March 2018

Exponential Innovation and Human Rights: Implications for Science and Technology Diplomacy
Calestous Juma | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-011, February 2018

International Cooperation in East Asia to Address Climate Change
Robert N. Stavins and Robert C. Stowe | Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, February 2018

The Internet of Things and Information Fusion: Who Talks to Who? 
Soroush Saghafian, Brian Tomlin, and Stephan Biller | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-009, February 2018

Paths to Convergence: Stock Price Behavior After Donald Trump's Election
Alexander F. Wagner, Alexandre Ziegler, and Richard Zeckhauser | mimeo, February 2018

Sunlight and Protection Against Influenza
David J. G. Slusky and Richard Zeckhauser | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-007, February 2018

Confronting an Enemy with Unknown Preferences: Deterrer or Provocateur? 
Artyom Jelnov, Yair Tauman, and Richard Zeckhauser | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-006, January 2018

High-Priced Drugs in Medicare Part D: Diagnosis and Potential Prescription
Richard G. Frank and Richard Zeckhauser | NBER Working Paper No. 24240, January 2018

Excess Prices for Drugs in Medicare: Diagnosis and Prescription
Richard G. Frank and Richard Zeckhauser | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-005, January 2018

Towards Sustainability in Water-Energy Nexus: Ocean Energy for Seawater Desalination
Zhenyu Li, Afreen Siddiqi, Laura Diaz Anadon and Venkatesh Narayanamurti | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 82.3, February 2018

Macroeconomic effects of the 2017 tax reform
Robert J. Barrow and Jason Furman | Spring 2018 edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Saving the Heartland: Place-based Policies in 21st Century America
Benjamin Austin, Edward Glaeser and Lawrence H Summers | Spring 2018 edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Pandemic risk: How large are the expected losses? 
Victoria Y Fan, Dean T Jamison and Lawrence H Summers | Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 96: 129-134

Women and Work in India: Descriptive Evidence and a Review of Potential Policies
Erin Fletcher, Rohini Pande, Charity Maria Troyer Moore | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-004, February 2018

African Regional Economic Integration: The Emergence, Evolution, and Impact of Institutional Innovation
Calestous Juma and Francis Mangeni | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-003, February 2018

Modeling Persuasion Within Small Groups, with an Application to a Deliberative Field Experiment on U.S. Fiscal Policy
Kevin Esterling, Archon Fung, Taeku Lee | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-001, January 2018

Trading Networks and Equilibrium Intermediation
Maciej Kotowski and C. Matthew Leister, January 2018

The 2030 Water Resources Group: Collaboration and Country Leadership to Strengthen Water Security
Beth Jenkins, Richard Gilbert and Jane Nelson | CRI Report No. 76

Value for Money? Community Targeting in Vote-Buying and Politician Accountability
Jessica Leight, Dana Foarta, Rohini Pande, Laura Ralston | NBER Working Paper No. 24194, January 2018

2017

Productivity and Pay: Is the link broken? 
Anna M. Stansbury and Lawrence H. Summers | NBER Working Paper No. 24165

Rethinking Stabilization Policy: Evolution or Revolution? 
Olivier J. Blanchard and Lawrence H. Summers | NBER Working Paper No. 24179

What does a Deductible Do? The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending Dynamics
Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg, Amitabh Chandra, Benjamin R. Handel, Jonathan T. Kolstad | The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt
John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and William L. Skimmyhorn | NBER

The Concept of 'Due Diligence' in the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights: Reply to Professors Bonnitcha and Mccorquodale
John Ruggie and John F. Sherman | European Journal of International Law

Recent US Manufacturing Employment: The Exception that Proves the Rule
Robert Z. Lawrence | Petersen Institute for International Economics Working Paper No. 17-12

Optimal Illiquidity
John Beshears, James Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian | NBER Retirement Research Center Paper No. NB 17-2, September 2017

Systemic Managed Floating
Jeffrey Frankel | NBER Working Paper No. 23663, August 2017

The Impact of Medicare Part D on Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries
Amitabh Chandra, Ning Fu, Seth A. Seabury | NBER Disability Research Center Paper No. NB 17-12, July 2017

Measuring Individual Economic Well-Being and Social Welfare within the Framework of the System of National Accounts
Dale W. Jorgenson and Paul Schreyer | Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 63, pp. S460-S477, 2017

Global Transmission of Interest Rates: Monetary Independence and the Currency Regime
Jeffrey A. Frankel | World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2424

Simultaneous Pursuit of Discovery and Invention in the US Department of Energy
Anna P. Goldstein and Venkatesh Narayanamurti | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-046, April 2017

Space Technology and Africa's Development: The Strategic Role of Small Satellites
Calestous Juma, Wesley L. Harris and Peter B. Waswa | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-043, September 2017

Aggregate Surprises and Price Spreads (ASAPS): Momentum, Reversals and Convergence After the 2016 Election
Alexander F. Wagner, Richard J. Zeckhauser, and Alexandre Ziegler | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-039, September 2017

What Does General Secretary Xi Jinping Dream About?
Anthony Saich | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-038, August 2017

The Currency-Plus-Commodity Basket: A Proposal for Exchange Rates in Oil-Exporting Countries to Accommodate Trade Shocks Automatically
Jeffrey Frankel | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-034, August 2017

How to Cope with Volatile Commodity Export Prices: Four Proposals
Jeffrey Frankel | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-033, August 2017

Connecting the Northeast: A Cost Estimate for the North South Rail Link
Laura White, Jean-Louis Rochet, Pete Mathias, Kate O'Gorman and Linda Bilmes | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-032, August 2017

African Megacities as Emerging Innovation Ecosystems
Katarzyna A. Nawrot, Calestous Juma and James Donald | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-031, August 2017

Endowments, Exclusion, and Exchange
Ivan Balbuzanov and Maciej Kotowski | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-016, March 2017

Designing and Updating a US Carbon Tax in an Uncertain World
Joseph Aldy | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-001, January 2017

Exchange Arrangements Entering the 21st Century: Which Anchor Will Hold?
Ethan Ilzetzki, Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff |  NBER Working Paper No. 23134

The Country Chronologies to Exchange Rate Arrangements into the 21st Century: Will the Anchor Currency Hold?
Ethan Ilzetzki, Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff |  NBER Working Paper No. 23135

Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Micro-Entrepreneurs
Arielle Bernhardt, Erica Field, Rohini Pande and Natalia Rigol |  NBER Working Paper No. 23358

Does It Matter If Statistical Agencies Frame the Month's CPI Report on a 1-Month or 12-Month Basis?
Jeffrey A. Frankel and Ayako Saiki |  NBER Working Paper No. 23754

Systematic Managed Floating
Jeffrey A. Frankel |  NBER Working Paper No. 23663

Characterizing the Drug Development Pipeline for Precision Medicines
Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite and Ariel Dora Stern |  NBER Working Paper No. 24026

Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care
Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger |  NBER Working Paper No. 24035

The Efficiency Consequences of Heterogeneous Behavioral Responses to Energy Fiscal Policies
Sebastien Houde and Joseph E. Aldy |  NBER Working Paper No. 24103

Linking Heterogeneous Climate Policies (Consistent with the Paris Agreement)
Michael A. Mehling, Gilbert E. Metcalf, and Robert N. Stavins |  M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2017-03

PARTNERSHIPS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Collective action by business, governments and civil society to achieve scale and transform markets
Jane Nelson | Corporate Responsibility Initiative Research Report No. 73 | July 2017

Multinationals as global institution: Power, authority and relative autonomy
John Ruggie | Published in Regulation and Governance | June 2017

The Social Construction of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
John G. Ruggie |  Corporate Responsibility Initiative Working Paper No. 67 | June 2017 

Financing of international collective action for epidemic and pandemic preparedness
Gavin Yamey, Marco Schaferhoff, Ole Kristian Aars, Barry Bloom, Dennis Carroll, Mukesh Chawla, Victori Dzau, Ricardo Echalar, Indermit Singh Gill, Tore Godal, Sanjeev Gupta, Dean Jamison, Patrick Kelley, Frederik Kristensen, Ceci Mundaca-Shah, Ben Oppenheim, Julie Pavlin, Rodrigo Salvado, Peter Sands, Rocio Schmunis, Agnes Soucat, Lawrence H. Summers, Anas El Turabi, Ron Waldman, Ed Whiting | The Lancet Global Health | May 2017

Straight talkers and vague talkers: The effects of managerial style in earnings conference calls
Michal Dzielinski, Alexander F. Wagner and Richard J. Zeckhauser | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2017-02

Company Stock Reacts to the 2016 Election Shock: Trump, Taxes and Trade
Alexander F. Wagner, Richard J. Zeckhauser and Alexandre Ziegler | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2017-01

2016

Long-Term Carbon Policy: The Great Swap
Joseph Aldy | Progressive Policy Institute, November 2016

Shifting College Majors in Response to Advanced Placement Exam Scores
Christopher Avery, Oded Gurantz, Michael Hurwitz, Jonathan Smith | NBER Working Paper No. 22841, November 2016

E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Clement Imbert, Santhosh Mathew, Rohini Pande | NBER Working Paper No. 22803, November 2016

Liquidity Risk in Sequential Trading Networks
Shachar Kariv, Maciej Kotowski, and C. Matthew Leister | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-039, October 2016

Research and Impacts of Digital Financial Services
Rohini Pande, Dean Karlan, Jake Kendall, Rebecca Mann, Tavneet Suri, Jonathan Zinman | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-037, September 2016

Microfinance: Points of Promise
Erica Field, Abraham Holland, and Rohini Pande | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-036, September 2016

Education, Participation, and the Revival of U.S. Economic Growth
Dale W. Jorgenson, Mun S. Ho, Jon D. Samuels | NBER Working Paper No. 22453, July 2016

The Causes of Peer Effects in Production: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments
John J. Horton and Richard Zeckhauser | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-027, June 2016

The Permanent Effects of Fiscal Consolidations
Antonio Fatas, Lawrence H. Summers | NBER Working Paper No. 22374, June 2016

A Contagious Malady? Open Economy Dimensions of Secular Stagnation
Gauti B. Eggertsson, Neil R. Mehrotra, Sanjay R. Singh, Lawrence H.
Summers | NBER Working Paper No. 22299, June 2016

Secular Stagnation in the Open Economy
Gauti B. Eggertsson, Neil R. Mehrotra, Lawrence H. Summers | NBER Working Paper No. 22172, April 2016

The Inclusive Cost of Pandemic Influenza Risk
Victoria Y. Fan, Dean T. Jamison, Lawrence H. Summers | NBER Working Paper No. 22137, March 2016

Efficient Warnings, Not "Wolf or Rabbit" Warnings
Lisa Robinson, W. Kip Viscusi, and Richard Zeckhauser | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2016-04

Loss Sequencing in Banking Networks: Threatened Banks as Strategic Dominoes
Ngoc-Khanh Tran, Thao Vuong, and Richard Zeckhauser | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2016-03

Making technological innovation work for sustainable development: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Laura Diaz Anadon, Gabriel Chan, Alicia G. Harley, Kira Matus, Suerie Moon, Sharmila L. Murthy and William C. Clark | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

A Quantum Leap Over High Hurdles to Financial Inclusion: The Mobile Banking Revolution in Kenya
Jay K. Rosengard | SWIFT Institute Working Paper No. 2015-005

Reforming the IPCC's Assessment of Climate Change Economics
Gabriel Chan, Carlo Carraro, Ottmar Edenhofer, Charles D. Kolstad and Robert N. Stavins | FEEM Working Paper No. 012.2016

Globalization and Chinese Growth: Ends of Trends?
Jeffrey Frankel | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-029, July 2016

Adjustment and Income Distribution Impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Robert Z. Lawrence and Tyler Moran | Peterson Institute for International Economics Working Paper No. 16-5

Global Cycles: Capital Flows, Commodities, and Sovereign Defaults, 1815-2015
Carmen Reinhart, Vincent Reinhart, and Christoph Trebesch | CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5737

Total Economic Valuation of the National Park Service Lands and Programs: Results of a Survey of The American Public
Michelle Haefele, John Loomis and Linda J. Bilmes | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-024, June 2016

Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can Private Forecasts Help?
Jeffrey Frankel | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-021, May 2016

Reimagining Accountability in K-12 Education: A Behavioral Science Perspective
Brian P. Gill, Jennifer S. Lerner, and Paul Meosky | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-018, April 2016

Trust Your Gut or Think Carefully? Examining Whether an Intuitive, Versus a Systematic, Mode of Thought Produces Greater Empathic Accuracy
Christine Me-Kellams and Jennifer S. Lerner | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-017, April 2016

How Quantifying Probability Assessments Influences Analysis and Decision Making: Experimental Evidence from National Security Professionals
Jeffrey A. Friedman, Jennifer S. Lerner, and Richard Zeckhauser | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-016, April 2016

Academics vs. Athletics: Career Concerns for NCAA Division I Coaches
Christopher Avery, Brian Cadman and Gavin Cassar | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-013, March 2016

Does It Matter if Statistical Agencies Frame the Month's CPI Report on a 1-Month or 12-Month Basis?

Jeffrey Frankel | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-011, March 2016

Using Inclusive Wealth for Policy Evaluation: Application to Electricity Infrastructure Planning in Oil-Exporting Countries
Ross D. Collins, Noelle E. Selin, Olivier L. de Weck, and William C. Clark | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-010, March 2016

Owning, Using and Renting: Some Simple Economics of the "Sharing Economy"
John J. Horton and Richard Zeckhauser | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-007, February 2016

Frameworks for Evaluating Policy Approaches to Address the Competitiveness Concerns of Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Joseph Aldy | Resources for the Future Discussion Paper 16-06

Crafting Usable Knowledge for Sustainable Development
William C. Clark, Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Louis Lebel, and Gilberto Gallopin | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-005, January 2016

Reading Managerial Tone: How Analysts and the Market Respond to Conference Calls
Marina Druz, Alexander F. Wagner, and Richard J. Zeckhauser | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-004, January 2016

International Coordination
Jeffrey Frankel | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-002, January 2016

Confronting Deep and Persistent Climate Uncertainty (updated version, December 2018)
Gernot Wagner and Richard Zeckhauser| M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2016-02

Collective Action in an Asymmetric World
Richard Zeckhauser and Cuicui Chen | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2016-01

Tackling Global Challenges: Lessons in System Leadership from the World Economic Forum's New Vision for Agriculture Initiative (Click here for the Executive Summary)
Jane Nelson and Beth Jenkins | CSRI, Harvard Kennedy School

2015

Alternative Metrics for Comparing Domestic Climate Change Mitigation Efforts and the Emerging International Climate Policy Architecture
Joseph Aldy and William Pizer | Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap-and-Trade
Richard Schmalensee and Robert N. Stavins | Discussion Paper 2015-80, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

Understanding the Slowing Growth Rate of the People's Republic of China
Dwight Perkins | Asian Development Review 32:1

The Personnel Economics of the State
Frederico Finan, Benjamin A. Olken, and Rohini Pande | NBER Working Paper No. w21825

Making Technological Innovation Work for Sustainable Development
Laura Diaz Anadon, Gabriel Chan, Alicia Harley, Kira Matus, Suerie Moon, Sharmila L. Murthy, and William C. Clark | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-079, December 2015

The International Monetary Fund: 70 Years of Reinvention
Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-077, December 2015

Green Bonds and Land Conservation: The Evolution of a New Financing Tool
Linda J. Bilmes | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-072, December 2015

Getting an Honest Answer: Clickers in the Classroom
Dan Levy, Joshua Yardley and Richard Zeckhauser | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-071, November 2015

Inflation and Activity--Two Explorations and their Monetary Policy Implications
Oliver Blanchard, Eugenio Cerutti and Lawrence H. Summers | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-070, November 2015

Evaluating Mitigation Effort: Tools and Institutions for Assessing Nationally Determined Contributions
Joseph Aldy | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-068, November 2015

Recollection Bias and Its Underpinnings: Lessons from Terrorism-Risk Assessments
Kip W. Viscusi and Richard Zeckhauser | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-066, October 2015

The Pitfalls of External Dependence: Greece, 1829-2015
Carmen M. Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-065, October 2015

What Does a Deductible Do? The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending Dynamics
Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg, Amitabh Chandra, Benjamin R. Handel, and Jonathan T. Kolstad | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-060, October 2015

Healthcare Exceptionalism? Performance and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector
Amitabh Chandra, Amy Finkelstein, Adam Sacarny, and Chad Syverson| HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-058, October 2015

The Plaza Accord, 30 Years Later
Jeffrey A. Frankel | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-056, September 2015

The Distributional Consequences of Public School Choice
Christopher Avery and Parag A. Pathak | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-053, September 2015

Better Predictions, Better Allocations: Scientific Advances and Adaptation to Climate Change
Mark C. Freeman, Ben Groom and Richard Zeckhauser | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-051, August 2015

Self Control and Commitment: Can Decreasing the Liquidity of a Savings Account Increase Deposits?
John Beshears, James J. Choi, Christopher Harris, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Jung Sakong | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-048, August 2015

London: A Multi-Century Struggle for Sustainable Development in an Urban Environment
William C. Clark | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-047, August 2015

Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Normative Innovations and Implementation Challenges
John Gerard Ruggie and Tamaryn Nelson | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-045, August 2015

Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India
Sharon Barnhardt, Erica Field and Rohini Pande | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-043, August 2015

A Note on Stability in One-on-One, Multi-Period Matching Markets
Maciej Kotowski | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-042, August 2015

Does Reserve Accumulation Crowd Out Investment? 
Carmen M. Reinhart | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-035, July 2015

The Antecedents and Aftermath of Financial Crises as Told by Carlos F. Diaz Alejandro
Carmen M. Reinhart, Vincent R. Reinhart and Takeshi Tashiro | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-038, July 2015

Recent Declines in Labor's Share in U.S. Income: A Neoclassical Account
Robert Z. Lawrence | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-034, July 2015

Electricity Markets and the Clean Power Plan
William W. Hogan | Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government

Engaged Scholarship: Perspectives from Outside the University
Jennifer Nash and Linda Bilmes | HKS Teaching and Learning Working Paper Series

Emotion and Decision Making
Jennifer Lerner, Ye Li, Piercarlo Valdesolo and Karim S. Kassam | Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 66, pp. 799-823, 2015

Comparing Emission Mitigation Effort
Joseph E. Aldy, William A. Pizer, and Keigo Akimoto | Duke Environmental and Energy Economics Working Paper Series

Time Horizons, Lattice Structures, and Welfare in Multi-Period Matching Markets
Maciej Kotowski and Sangram V. Kadam | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP15-031

Multi-period Matching
Maciej Kotowski and Sangram V. Kadam | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP15-030

Policy Surveillance in the G-20 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Agreement: Lessons for Climate Policy
Joseph Aldy | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP15-029

Sovereign Debt Relief and its Aftermath
Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP15-028

Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison
Brigitte Madrian, John Beshears, James J. Choi, Joshua Hurwitz and David Laibson | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP15-024

Giving College Credit Where It Is Due: Advanced Placement Exam Scores and College Outcomes
Jonathan Smith, Michael Hurwitz and Christopher Avery | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP15-021

Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?
Rohini Pande, Seema Jayachandran and Erica Field | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP15-019

From Financial Repression to External Distress: The Case of Venezuela
Carmen Reinhart and Miguel Angel Santos | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP15-018

Why Are Indian Children So Short?
Rohini Pande and Seema Jayachandran | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP15-016

The Euro Crisis: Where to From Here?
Jeffrey Frankel | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP15-015

Dealing with Debt
Carmen Reinhart, Vincent Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP15-009

Carbon Sequestration in the U.S. National Parks: A Value Beyond Visitation
Adam Banasiak, Linda J. Bilmes and John Loomis| M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2015-06

Tips and Tells from Managers: How Analysts and the Market Read Between the Lines of Conference Calls
Marina Druz, Alexander F. Wagner and Richard Zeckhauser | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2015-05

Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap
Todd D. Gerarden, Richard G. Newell and Robert N. Stavins | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2015-04

An Assessment of the Energy-Efficiency Gap and its Implications for Climate-Change Policy
Todd D. Gerarden, Richard G. Newell, Robert N. Stavins and Robert C. Stowe | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2015-03

Facilitating Linkage of Heterogeneous Regional, National, and Sub-National Climate Policies Through a Future International Agreement
Daniel Bodansky, Seth Hoedl, Gilbert Metcalf and Robert Stavins | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2015-02

Climate Sensitivity Uncertainty: When is Good News Bad?
Mark C. Freeman, Gernot Wagner and Richard Zeckhauser | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2015-01

Leapfrogging or Stalling Out? Electric Vehicles in China
Sabrina Howell, Henry Lee, and Adam Heal | Regulatory Policy Program (RPP-2015-07) | 2015

First Mover Advantages and Optimal Patent Protection
F. M. Scherer | Regulatory Policy Program (RPP-2015-05) | 2015

Life in the Global Public Domain: Response to Commentaries on the UN Guiding Principles and the Proposed Treaty on Business and Human Rights
John Gerard Ruggie | Social Science Research Network | January 2015

Regulating Multinationals: The UN Guiding Principles, Civil Society, and International Legalization
John Gerard Ruggie | Regulatory Policy Program (RPP-2015-04) | 2015

The Value of Regulatory Discretion: Estimates from Environmental Inspections in India
Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, Rohini Pande, and Nicholas Ryan | Harvard Project on Climate Agreements | 2015 

2014

College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea
Christopher Avery, Soohyung Lee and Alvin E. Roth | NBER Working Paper No. w20774

Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence from Public Works in India and Indonesia
Sean Lewis-Faupel, Yusuf Neggers, Benjamin A. Olken and Rohini Pande | NBER Working Paper No. w20344

The Value of Regulatory Discretion: Estimates from Environmental Inspections in India
Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, Rohini Pande and Nicholas Ryan | NBER Working Paper No. w20590

Recovery from Financial Crises: Evidence from 100 Episodes
Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff | NBER Working Paper No. w19823

Persuasion within Small Deliberative Groups: A Randomized Field Experiment on Fiscal Policy Discussion
Kevin M. Esterling, Archon Fung and Taeku Lee | Social Science Research Network

Does Transparency Improve Governance? 
Stephen Kosack and Archon Fung | Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 17, pp. 65-87, 2014

The Crucial Role of Policy Surveillance in International Climate Policy
Joseph E. Aldy | Resources for the Future Discussion Paper 14-29

Reflections on a Survey of Global Perceptions of International Leaders and World Powers
Anthony Saich | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-058

The Amherst Telementoring Program for High-Achieving, Low-Income Students: Results of a Pilot Study with a Randomized Controlled Trial
Christopher Avery | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-055

Second Trimester Sunlight and Asthma: Evidence from Two Independent Studies
Nils Wernerfelt, David Slusky, and Richard Zeckhauser | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP14-050

Nominal GDP Targeting for Middle-Income Countries
Jeffrey Frankel | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP14-033

Reforming China's Monopolies
Anthony Saich and Peijun Duan | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP14-023

Signaling with Audits: Mimicry, Wasteful Expenditures, and Non-Compliance in a Model of Tax Enforcement
Maciej Kotowski, David Weisbach and Richard Zeckhauser | HKS Faculty Working Paper Series RWP14-001

Asiaphoria Meets Regression to the Mean
Lawrence H. Summers and Lant Pritchett | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2014-04

Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others
Todd Rogers, Richard Zeckhauser, Francesca Gino, Maurice Schweitzer and Mike Norton | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2014-03

The Role of Distribution in Regulatory Analysis and Decision Making
Lisa A. Robinson, James K. Hammitt, and Richard Zeckhauser | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2014-02

The Linkage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems: Learning from Experience
Matthew Ranson and Robert N. Stavins | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2014-01

Learning from Experience: An Assessment of the Retrospective Reviews of Agency Rules and the Evidence for Improving the Design and Implementation of Regulatory Policy
Joseph E. Aldy | Regulatory Policy Program (RPP-2014-28) | 2014

Belt and Suspenders and More: The Incremental Impact of Energy Efficiency Subsidies in the Presence of Existing Policy Instruments
Sebastien Houde and Joseph E. Aldy | Regulatory Policy Program (RPP-2014-26) | 2014

The Banking Industry
F.M. Scherer | Regulatory Policy Program (RPP-2014-25) | 2014

Comparability of Effort in International Climate Policy Architecture
Joseph E. Aldy and William A. Pizer | Regulatory Policy Program (RPP-2014-19) | 2014

Regulating Ambiguous Risks: The Less than Rational Regulation of Pharmaceuticals
W. Kip Viscusi and Richard Zeckhauser | Regulatory Policy Program (RPP-2014-18) | 2014

The Relative Weights of Direct and Indirect Experiences in the Formation of Environmental Risk Beliefs
W. Kip Viscusi and Richard J. Zeckhauser | Regulatory Policy Program (RPP-2014-17) | 2014

The Labor Market Impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Oil Drilling Moratorium
Joseph E. Aldy | Regulatory Policy Program (RPP-2014-16) | 2014

Heterogeneity in the Value of Life
Joseph E. Aldy and Seamus J. Smyth | Regulatory Policy Program (RPP-2014-15) | 2014

Competition Policy and Intellectual Property: Insights from Developed Country Experience
F. M. Scherer and Jayashree Watal | Regulatory Policy Program (RPP-2014-10) | 2014

Three Lingering Design Issues Affecting Market Performance in California's GHG Cap-and-Trade Program
Todd Schatzki and Robert N. Stavins | Regulatory Policy Program (RPP-2014-08) | 2014

Beyond AB 32: Post-2020 Climate Policy for California
Todd Schatzki and Robert N. Stavins | Regulatory Policy Program (RPP-2014-07) | 2014

Using the Value of Allowances from California's GHG Cap-and-Trade System
Todd Schatzki and Robert N. Stavins | Regulatory Policy Program (RPP-2014-06) | 2014

Implications of Policy Interactions for California's Climate Policy
Todd Schatzki and Robert N. Stavins | Regulatory Policy Program (RPP-2014-05) | 2014

Building the foundations for a long-term development partnership: The construction phase of the PNG LNG Project
Jane Nelson and Kara Valikai | Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative Report 53 | March 2014 

National Security and Domestic Oil Depletion
Frankel, Jeffrey | Harvard Environmental Economics Program | 2014

2013

Risk Regulation Lessons from Mad Cows
Joseph Aldy and W. Kip Viscusi| M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2013-16

The Future of the Currency Union
Jeffrey Frankel | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2013-15

Effects of Speculation and Interest Rates in a "Carry Trade" Model of Commodity Prices
Jeffrey Frankel | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2013-14

The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes
Jeffrey Liebman and Peter Ganong | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2013-13

Do Expiring Budgets Lead to Wasteful Year-End Spending? Evidence from Federal Procurement
Jeffrey Liebman and Neale Mahoney | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2013-12

Ignorance: Lessons from the Laboratory of Literature
Devjani Roy and Richard Zeckhauser | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2013-11

Patents, Monopoly Power, and the Pricing of Pharmaceuticals in Low-Income Nations
F. M. Scherer | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2013-10

Audits as Signals
Richard Zeckhauser and Maciej Kotowski | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2013-09

Two Paradoxes in the Theory of Capital Investment and Competition
F.M. Scherer | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2013-08

The F.T.C., Oligopoly, and Shared Monopoly
F.M. Scherer | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2013-07

Financial Mergers and Their Consequences
F.M. Scherer | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2013-06

The Decisions of Entrepreneurs and Their Agents: Revealed Levels of Risk Aversion and Betrayal Aversion
Richard Zeckhauser | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2013-05

Association of Southeast Asian Nations, People's Republic of China, and India Growth and the Rest of the World: The Role of Trade
Robert Z. Lawrence | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2013-04

Social Class and (Un)ethical Behavior: A Framework, with Evidence from a Large Population Sample
Richard Zeckhauser | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2013-03

The Fiscal and Economic Effects of Austerity: Opening Remarks to the Senate Budget Committee of June 4, 2013
Lawrence H. Summers | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2013-02

The Financial Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan: How Wartime Spending Decisions Will Constrain Future National Security Budgets
Linda J. Bilmes | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2013-01

2012

Challenges for Japan and the United States Over the Next Two Decades
Ezra Vogel |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-18

China, the USA and Asia's Future
Tony Saich |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-17

Energy Policy: Made in Japan
William W. Hogan |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-16

Japan's Economic Prospects
Roger B. Porter |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-15

National Security Policy
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-14

Internationalization of the RMB and Historical Precedents
Jeffrey Frankel |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-13

The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Experiment
Robert N. Stavins |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-12

Post-Durban Climate Policy Architecture Based on Linkage of Cap-And-Trade Systems
Robert N. Stavins |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-11

The Tax Everyone Loves to Hate: Principles of Property Tax Reform
Jay K. Rosengard |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-10

On Graduation from Fiscal Procyclicality
Jeffrey A. Frankel, Carlos A. Vegh, and Guillermo Vuletin |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-09

Underfunded Public Pensions in the United States: The Size of the Problem, the Obstacles to Reform and the Path Forward
Thomas J. Healey, Carl Hess, and Kevin Nicholson | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-08

Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets
Jeffrey Frankel |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-07

Mauritius: African Success Story
Jeffrey Frankel |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-06

Economic Shocks and Their Implications for International Politics
Jeff Frankel |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-05

What Small Countries Can Teach the World
Jeff Frankel |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-04

Technological Abundance for Global Agriculture: The Role of Biotechnology
Calestous Juma |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-03

Gasoline Taxes and Consumer Behavior
Shanjun Li, Joshua Linn, and Erich Muehlegger |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-02

The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation
Gabriel Chan, Robert N. Stavins, Robert Stowe, and Richard Sweeney | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2012-01

2011

Choosing an Exchange Rate Regime
Jeffrey Frankel | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2011-16

If The Banks Are Doing So Well, Why Can't I Get A Loan? Regulatory Constraints to Financial Inclusion in Indonesia
Jay K. Rosengard | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2011-15

A Preliminary Review of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s Clean Energy Package 
Joseph Aldy | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2011-14

The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies 
Joseph Aldy and William Pizer | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2011-13

R&D Costs and Productivity in Biopharmaceuticals
F.M. Scherer | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2011-12

The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon: Theory and Experience
Joseph Aldy and Robert N. Stavins | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2011-11

Mergers and Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Market
William S. Comanor and F.M. Scherer | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2011-10

Using the Market to Address Climate Change: Insights from Theory and Experience
Joseph Aldy and Robert N. Stavins | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2011-09

Real-Time Economic Analysis and Policy Development During the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 
Joseph Aldy | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2011-08

Can Leading Indicators Assess Country Vulnerability? Evidence from the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis
Jeffrey Frankel | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2011-07

Eisenhower Study Group on the Costs of War
Linda J. Bilmes | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2011-06

Parallel R&D Paths Revisited
F.M. Scherer | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2011-05

The Availability and Utilization of 401(k) Loans 
John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2011-04

The Value of Terroir: Hedonic Estimation of Vineyard Sales Prices 
Robin Cross, Andrew J. Plantinga, and Robert N. Stavins | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2011-03

Behavioral Economics Perspectives on Public Sector Pension Plans 
John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2011-02

The Unintended Consequences of Successful Resource Mobilization: Financing Development in Vietnam 
Jay Rosengard, Trần Thị Quế Giang, Đinh Vũ Trang Ngân, Huỳnh Thế Du, and Juan Pablo Chauvin | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2011-01

2010

AGOA Rules: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Special Fabric Provisions 
Lawrence Edwards and Robert Z. Lawrence | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2010-14

The Problem of the Commons: Still Unsettled After 100 Years 
Robert N. Stavins | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2010-13

How Good Politics Results in Bad Policy: The Case of Biofuel Mandates 
Robert Z. Lawrence | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2010-12

Standard Oil as a Technological Innovator 
F.M. Scherer | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2010-11

Abuse of Dominance by High-Technology Enterprises: A Comparison of U.S. and E.C. Approaches 
F.M. Scherer | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2010-10

The Regulation of Consumer Financial Products: An Introductory Essay with Four Case Studies 
John Y. Campbell, Howell E. Jackson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Peter Tufano | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2010-09

Interactions Between State and Federal Climate Change Policies 
Lawrence H. Goulder and Robert N. Stavins | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2010-08

Three Key Elements of Post-2012 International Climate Policy Architecture 
Sheila M. Olmstead and Robert N. Stavins | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2010-07

Consumer Response to Cigarette Excise Tax Changes 
Lesley Chiou and Erich J. Muehlegger | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2010-06

A Perplexed Economist Confronts 'Too Big to Fail' 
F.M. Scherer | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2010-05

Consumer Learning and Hybrid Vehicle Adoption 
Heutel, Garth, and Erich Muehlegger | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2010-04

The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance 
Robert W. Hahn and Robert N. Stavins | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2010-03

Fuel Tax Incidence and Supply Conditions
Justin Marion and Erich Muehlegger | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2010-02

The Dynamics of Capitalism 
F.M. Scherer | M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2010-01

2009

How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices? 
John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2009-02

Oversight is a Many-Splendored Thing: Choice and Proportionality in Regulating and Supervising Microfinance Institutions
Jay K. Rosengard |M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper No. 2009-01