Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.
Faculty Publications
Jorgenson, Dale W., Mun S. Ho, and Jon D. Samuels. "What Will Revive U.S. Economic Growth? Lessons from a Prototype Industry-Level Production Account for the United States." Journal of Policy Modeling 36.4 (July 2014): 674-691.
Bowles, Hannah Riley. "Why Women Don’t Negotiate Their Job Offers." Harvard Business Review. June 19, 2014.
Glaeser, Edward, and Cass R. Sunstein. "Regulatory Review for the States." National Affairs 20 (Summer 2014): 37-54.
Bourreau, Marc, Carlo Cambini, and Pinar Dogan. "Access Regulation and the Transition from Copper to Fiber Networks in Telecoms." Journal of Regulatory Economics 45.3 (June 2014): 233-258.
Kotowski, Maciej H., David A. Weisbach, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Rules and Standards when Compliance Costs are Private Information." Journal of Legal Studies 43.S2 (June 2014): S297-S329.
Aldy, Joseph, and Seamus Smyth. "Heterogeneity in the Value of Life." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-024, May 2014.
Aldy, Joseph, and William Pizer. "The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-025, May 2014.
Kotowski, Maciej, and Fei Li. "On the Continuous Equilibria of Affiliated-Value, All-Pay Auctions with Private Budget Constraints." Games and Economic Behavior 85 (May 2014): 84–108.
Diaz Anadon, Laura, Kira Matus, Suerie Moon, Gabriel Chan, Alicia Harley, Sharmila Murthy, Vanessa Timmer, Ahmed Abdel Latif, Kathleen Araujo, Kayje Booker, Hyundo Choi, Kristian Dubrawski, Lonia Friedlander, Christina Ingersoll, Erin Kempster, Laura Pereira, Jennie Stephens, Lee Vinsel, and William C. Clark. "Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development: Diagnosing Weaknesses and Identifying Interventions in the Transnational Arena." Sustainability Science Program Working Paper No. 2014-01, Sustainability Science Program and Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, May 2014.
Reinhart, Carmen M., and Kenneth S. Rogoff. "Recovery from Financial Crises: Evidence from 100 Episodes." American Economic Review 104.5 (May 2014): 50-55.
Reinhart, Carmen, and Ken Rogoff. "Addicted to Dollars." Annals of Economics and Finance 15.1 (May 2014): 1-52.
Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Andrew Rose. "Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality." Recent Developments In Trade And The Environment. Ed. Brian R. Copeland. Edward Elgar, 2014.
Harley, Alicia, Sharmila Murthy, Laura Diaz Anadon, Gabriel Chan, Kira Matus, Suerie Moon, Vanessa Timmer, and William C. Clark. "Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Global Systems Perspective." Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, April 24, 2014.
Shoag, Daniel, and Stan Veuger. "Shops and the City: Evidence on Local Externalities and Local Government Policy from Big Box Bankruptcies." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-019, April 2014.
Bilmes, Linda J. "Boots on the Budget: Personnel Costs Need to be Part of the Equation for Military Cuts." Boston Globe, March 22, 2014.
Bowles, Hannah Riley. Review of Women and Executive Office: Pathways and Performance, ed. Melody Rose. Sage, 59.4, March 2014: NP39–NP41.
Sparrow, Malcolm K. "What Does It Mean to be a Risk-based Regulator?" Beyond Finance - Financial Supervision in the 21st Century. Dutch National Bank Occasional Series, March 2014, 9-14.
Scherer, F.M., and Jayashree Watal. "Competition Policy and Intellectual Property: Insights from Developed Country Experience." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-013, February 2014.
Aldy, Joseph. "Foreword." Toward a New Climate Agreement: Conflict, Resolution and Governance. Ed. Todd L. Cherry, Jon Hovi, and David M. McEvoy. Routledge, 2014.
Ranson, Matthew, and Robert N. Stavins. "Linkage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems: Learning from Experience." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-012, February 2014.
Risse, Mathias, and Gabriel Wollner. "Three Images of Trade: On the Place of Trade in a Theory of Global Justice." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-011, February 2014.
Reinhart, Carmen, and Kenneth Rogoff. "Financial and Sovereign Debt Crises: Some Lessons Learned and Those Forgotten." Financial Crises: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses. Ed. Stijn Claessens, M. Ayhan Kose, Luc Laeven, and Fabian Valencia. International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Bilmes, Linda J. "Reforming the Budget: Four Steps to Restore Fiscal Discipline." Brookings, February 5, 2014.
Viscusi, W. Kip, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Regulating Ambiguous Risks: The Less than Rational Regulation of Pharmaceuticals." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-005, February 2014 (Revised January 2015).
Kotowski, Maciej, David A. Weisbach, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Audits as Signals." University of Chicago Law Review 81.1 (February 2014): 179-202.
Kotowski, Maciej, David Weisbach, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Signaling with Audits: Mimicry, Wasteful Expenditures, and Non-Compliance in a Model of Tax Enforcement." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-001, January 2014.
Bilmes, Linda J. "U.N. Funding is a Small Price for Peace." Boston Globe, January 25, 2014.
Aldy, Joseph. "Environmental Risk and Uncertainty." Handbook of the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty. Ed. Mark Machina and W. Kip Viscusi. Elsevier, January 2014, 601-649.
Zeckhauser, Richard. "New Frontiers Beyond Risk and Uncertainty: Ignorance, Group Decision, and Unanticipated Themes, Preface 2." Handbook of the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty. Ed. W. Kip Viscusi and Mark Machina. Elsevier, 2013, xvii-xxix.
Aldy, Joseph. "The Employment and Competitiveness Impacts of Power-Sector Regulations." Does Regulation Kill Jobs? Ed. Cary Coglianese, Adam M. Finkel, and Christopher Carrigan. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
Reinhart, Carmen, and Takeshi Tashiro. "Crowding Out Redefined: The Role of Reserve Accumulation." Prospects for Asia and the Global Economy. Ed. Reuven Glick, and Mark M. Spiegel. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2014, 1-43.
Ruggie, John Gerard. "Global Governance and “New Governance Theory”: Lessons from Business and Human Rights." Global Governance 20.1 (January-March 2014): 5-17.
Aldy, Joseph, and W. Kip Viscusi. "Risk Regulation Lessons from Mad Cows." Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics 8.4 (December 2013): 231-313.
Reinhart, Carmen and Takeshi Tashiro. "Investment In The Wake of Crises: Asia 15 Years Later." Vox, December 17, 2013.
Schmalensee, Richard, and Robert N. Stavins. "The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment." Journal of Economic Perspectives 27.1 (December 2013): 103-122.
Fang, Hai, Karen N. Eggleston, John A. Rizzo, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Jobs and Kids: Female Employment and Fertility in China." IZA Journal of Labor and Development 2.12 (2013).
Elmendorf, Douglas. "Comment on ‘Is This Time Different? The Slowdown in Healthcare Spending." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2013).
Aldy, Joseph, and W. Kip Viscusi. "Risk Regulation Lessons from Mad Cows." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-047, November 2013.
Ranson, Matthew, and Robert N. Stavins. "Linkage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems: Learning from Experience." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-046, November 2013.
Bilmes, Linda J. and William Daley. "With HealthCare.gov, the Government's Bad Management Skills are Showing Again." The Washington Post, November 7, 2013.
Reinhart, Carmen. "Of Debt, Growth, Interest Rates & History." Bloomberg Business, November 5, 2013.
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Simplification and Saving." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 95 (November 2013): 130-145.
Bilmes, Linda J. "As the Shutdown Turns: It's Time to Stop the Budgetary Soap Opera." Cognoscenti, October 10, 2013.
Duflo, Esther, Michael Greenstone, Rohini Pande, and Nicholas Ryan. "Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India." Quarterly Journal of Economics 128.4 (2013): 1499–1545.
Roy, Devjani, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Ignorance: Lessons from the Laboratory of Literature." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-039, October 2013.
Bilmes, Linda J. "No Day at the National Parks." Boston Globe, October 4, 2013.
Burke, Sheila, and Elaine Kamarck. "The Affordable Care Act: A User's Guide to Implementation." Center for Effective Public Management at Brookings, October 2013.
Bilmes, Linda J. "Testimony in Support of a National Veterans' Trust Fund." Veterans Affairs Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, September 18, 2013.
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn Reynolds. "Testimonials Do Not Convert Patients From Brand to Generic Medication." American Journal of Managed Care 19.9 (September 11, 2013): e314-e316.
Scherer, F.M. "The F.T.C., Oligopoly, and Shared Monopoly." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-031, September 2013.