Browsing Harvard Kennedy School by Title
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The Obama Administration's Proposals to Address Concentrated Urban Poverty
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Of Knights and Squires: European Union and the Modernization of Albania
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Off Pitch: Football’s financial integrity weaknesses, and how to strengthen them
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-01)Men’s professional football is the biggest sport in the world, producing (by our estimate) US $33 billion a year. All is not well in the sector, however, with regular scandals raising questions about the role of money in ... -
Offshore Investment Funds: Monsters in Emerging Markets?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2001-06)The 1997-98 financial crises in the emerging markets have brought to the foreground the concern about offshore investment funds and their possible role in exacerbating financial market volatility. Offshore investment funds ... -
Offshore Wind in the Eastern United States
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2021-12)In the last decade, many states set ambitious goals to decarbonize their energy portfolios. Seven states along the Atlantic coast are pursuing 100% clean electricity targets, while others have adopted stringent emissions ... -
On Global Currencies
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)I approach the state of global currency issues by identifying eight concepts that I see as having recently “peaked” and eight more that I see as currently rising in relevance. Those that I see as having already seen their ... -
On Globalization and the Concentration of Talent
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-10)We analyze how globalization affects the allocation of talent across competing teams in large matching markets. Assuming a reduced form of globalization as a convex transformation of payoffs, we show that for every economy ... -
On Graduation from Fiscal Procyclicality
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)In the past, industrial countries have tended to pursue countercyclical or, at worst, acyclical fiscal policy. In sharp contrast, emerging and developing countries have followed procyclical fiscal policy, thus exacerbating ... -
On graduation from fiscal procyclicality
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-07)In the past, industrial countries have tended to pursue countercyclical or, at worst, acyclical fiscal policy. In sharp contrast, emerging and developing countries have followed procyclical fiscal policy, thus exacerbating ... -
On Productivism
(Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-03)We are today in the midst of a transition away from what has come to be called “neoliberalism,” with much uncertainty about what will replace it. We might approach the absence of a solidified new paradigm with mixed feelings. ... -
On the continuous equilibria of affiliated-value, all-pay auctions with private budget constraints
(Elsevier BV, 2014)We consider all-pay auctions in the presence of interdependent, affiliated valuations and private budget constraints. For the sealed-bid, all-pay auction we characterize a symmetric equilibrium in continuous strategies for ... -
On the Design of Effective Sanctions: The Case of Bans on Exports to Russia
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-09)We analyze the effects of bans on exports at the level of 5000 products and show how our results can inform economic sanctions against Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. We begin with characterizing export restrictions ... -
On the effectiveness of exchange rate interventions in emerging markets
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2014-09)We analyze the effectiveness of exchange rate interventions for a panel of 18 emerging market economies during the period 2003-2011. Using an error-correction model approach we find that on average intervention is effective ... -
On the Measurement of Poverty Dynamics
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures trade-off poverty levels and changes (gains and losses) over time, and are consistent with ... -
On the Persistence of the China Shock
(Harvard Kennedy School, 2021)We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. ... -
On the Practical Implications of the Carbon Dioxide Question
(IIASA, 1985-08)There is no doubt that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and other "greenhouse" gases have been increasing and will continue to do so for the next several decades at least. Climate models predict that this will lead to a ... -
On the Rand: Determinants of the South African Exchange Rate
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-03)This paper is an econometric investigation of the determinants of the real value of the South African rand over the period 1984-2006. The results show a relatively good fit. As always with exchange rate equations, there ... -
On the Role of Solar Geoengineering in Combatting Climate Change: Harvard University vs. Indigenous Voices
(Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-08)In 2021 the Saami Council asked Harvard to suspend research related to stratospheric aerosol injections, a form of geoengineering. Their intervention raises far-reaching questions regarding the appropriateness of geoengineering ... -
On the Scaling Patterns of Infectious Disease Incidence in Cities
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018-09)Urban areas with larger and more connected populations offer an auspicious environment for contagion processes such as the spread of pathogens. Empirical evidence reveals a systematic increase in the rates of certain ... -
One More Resource Curse: Dutch Disease and Export Concentration
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-05)Economists have long discussed the negative effect of Dutch disease episodes on the non-resource tradable sector as a whole, but little has been said on its impact on the composition of the non-resource export sector. This ...