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    Governing Rules, Regulations, and ReformsRemove Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms →

    New research on governing rules, regulations, and reforms from Harvard Business School faculty on issues including the integrity of third-party compliance monitoring, challenges around regulating "sharing economy" firms like Uber, and the role of regulation.
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    • 14 Mar 2023
    • In Practice

    What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

    by Dina Gerdeman

    Silicon Valley Bank wasn't ready for the Fed's interest rate hikes, but that's only part of the story. Victoria Ivashina and Erik Stafford probe the complex factors that led to the second-biggest bank failure ever.

    • 21 Jul 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?

    by Rachel Layne

    Remember the GameStop stock frenzy? Research by Robin Greenwood and colleagues shows how market speculation can flare up when you combine stimulus funds, trading platforms, and plain old boredom.

    • 18 May 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers

    by Rachel Layne

    Payday lenders have been accused of exploiting poor consumers, but traditional banks exact a similar toll through overdraft fees. Research by Marco Di Maggio and Emily Williams shows how seemingly innocuous checking accounts can become vehicles for financial distress.

    • 17 Aug 2021
    • Op-Ed

    Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

    by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

    Legalizing cannabis federally would shrink the illicit market, help the legal market grow, and generate more tax revenue, says Ashish Nanda. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 20 Apr 2021
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China

    by Meg Rithmire and Hao Chen

    This study sheds light on the political pathology of fraudulent, illegal, and corrupt business practices. Features of the Chinese system—including regulatory gaps, a lack of formal means of property protection, and pervasive uncertainty—seem to facilitate the rise of mafia systems.

    • 13 Apr 2021
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices: Evidence from the Electricity Sector

    by Alexander MacKay and Ignacia Mercadal

    Efforts to deregulate the US electricity sector beginning in the 1990s included market-based prices and restructuring measures to introduce competition. This paper argues that electricity prices increased after deregulation because of the presence of market power.

    • 14 Jan 2021
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Dog Eat Dog: Measuring Network Effects Using a Digital Platform Merger

    by Chiara Farronato, Jessica Fong, and Andrey Fradkin

    With heated debate over antitrust regulation of online platforms, this study finds that when a larger platform acquired its greatest competitor, users were not better off with a single platform compared with two competitors, despite marked efficiency improvements experienced by the acquiring platform.

    • 14 Dec 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?

    by Danielle Kost

    Even in the best of times, pharmaceutical regulators tend to rush through drug applications in December. Now add in a ruthless pandemic. Research and insights from Lauren Cohen. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 17 Aug 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization

    by Rawi Abdelal

    Cycles of liberation and regulation of global finance follow a pattern of learning and forgetting. This essay argues that liberalization and globalization created the instability and inequality that have begun to undermine the system from within.

    • 12 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

    by Danielle Kost

    Forty percent of American investors rely on financial advisers, but the COVID-19 market rollercoaster may have highlighted a weakness when disputes arise. The system favors the financial industry, says Mark Egan. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 23 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

    by Rachel Layne

    Developing countries have fewer fiscal tools and policy options to combat COVID-19 damage to their economies, according to research by Alberto Cavallo and colleagues. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 20 Jul 2020
    • Op-Ed

    It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

    by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer

    Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer prescribe a seemingly impossible cure for battling health care options: a plan that embraces both Republican and Democratic ideas. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 12 Jul 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Sticky Capital Controls

    by Miguel Acosta-Henao, Laura Alfaro, and Andrés Fernández

    One of the legacies of the 2007–2008 global financial crisis has been a reassessment of the potential for restriction of capital flows policies. This paper documents a set of stylized facts on capital controls along their intensive and extensive margins for emerging markets and document them to be “sticky.” We then rationalize them through a model that includes fixed cost of implementing such policies, which lower the welfare gains of implementation.

    • 10 Jul 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Making Economics More Useful: How Technological Eclecticism Could Help

    by Amar Bhidé

    This paper shows how tools, such as simulations used to design new technologies, can facilitate collaborative economic policy judgments. The paper forms part of a broader, ongoing study of knowledge in practical fields such as engineering, medicine, and business.

    • 09 Jul 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    How Should US Bank Regulators Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis?

    by Michael Blank, Samuel G. Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, and Adi Sunderam

    Instead of the "watchful waiting" approach taken by US bank regulators to the pandemic crisis, they should use their prudential authorities to encourage banks to increase their equity capital. This is effectively a way of buying low-cost insurance against adverse scenarios that have become more likely.

    • 02 Jul 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Inflation with COVID Consumption Baskets

    by Alberto Cavallo

    Examining the impact that changes in expenditure patterns are having on the measurement of consumer price indices (CPI) inflation in 17 countries, this study finds that the cost of living for the average consumer is higher than estimated by the official CPI. This implies that real consumption is falling more quickly over time.

    • 18 Jun 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Rise of the Investor State: State Capital in the Chinese Economy

    by Hao Chen and Meg Rithmire

    Researchers document and explain the rise of a novel form of intervention on the part of the Chinese state: the expansion of state capital beyond ownership of state firms.

    • 02 Jun 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    HBS COVID-19 Global Policy Tracker

    by Alberto Cavallo and Tannya Cai

    The Harvard Business School Covid-19 Global Policy Tracker monitors new developments and changes in government policies throughout this crisis to analyze trends and correlations in countries' responses and economic impact.

    • 01 Jun 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Rebates in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Evidence from Medicines Sold in Retail Pharmacies in the U.S.

    by Pragya Kakani, Michael Chernew, and Amitabh Chandra

    Retail pharmacy data illustrates it can be misleading to use list prices instead of net prices to understand pharmaceutical prices. Analysts and economists working in public policy should be extremely cautious in drawing policy conclusions based on list prices alone.

    • 16 Apr 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

    by Sean Silverthorne

    4Questions Companies and consumers depend on the global value chain to create and distribute products around the world. What happens when the chain breaks? Insights from Laura Alfaro and Ester Faia. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

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