Rafael Di Tella

Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit

Professor

Cambridge, MA

United States

http://www.people.hbs.edu/rditella/

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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1.

Crime and Beliefs: Evidence from Latin America

Economics Letters, Vol. 99, No. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 02 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Rafael Di Tella, Javier D. Donna and Robert MacCulloch
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, University of Florida and Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School
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beliefs, crime, fairness, legitimacy of market

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Oil, Macro Volatility and Crime in the Determination of Beliefs in Venezuela

In: Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse, chapter 13, edited by Ricardo Hausmann, and Francisco R. Rodríguez, Penn State University Press, 2014.
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Rafael Di Tella, Javier D. Donna and Robert MacCulloch
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, University of Florida and Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School
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beliefs, oil, crime, corruption, macro volatility, perceptions, causality

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The Macroeconomics of Happiness

University of Bonn ZEI Working Paper No. B3
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 04 Oct 2001
Rafael Di Tella, Robert MacCulloch and Andrew J. Oswald
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School and University of Warwick - Department of Economics
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Well-being, Happiness, Macroeconomics, Costs of Business Cycles, Unemployment Insurance

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Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?

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Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 14 Dec 2001
Alberto F. Alesina, Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School
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Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?

NBER Working Paper No. w8198
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 31 Mar 2001 Last Revised: 28 May 2022
Alberto F. Alesina, Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School
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Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 31 Jul 2001
Alberto F. Alesina, Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School
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Inequality, happiness, redistribution

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Gross National Happiness as an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 26 Apr 2005
Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School
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Income, subjective well-being, quality of life

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The Role of Wages and Auditing During a Crackdown on Corruption in the City of Buenos Aires

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 May 2001
Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
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Anti-corruption crackdown, efficiency wages, audit, procurement

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Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel

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Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 26 Jul 2005
Rafael Di Tella, John P. Haisken-DeNew and Robert MacCulloch
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, University of Melbourne - Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research and Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School
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Happiness, psychology, adaptation to income, adaptation to status

Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel

NBER Working Paper No. w13159
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 27 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2022
Rafael Di Tella, John de New and Robert MacCulloch
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, University of Melbourne - Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research and Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School
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The Consequences of Labor Market Flexibility: Panel Evidence Based on Survey Data

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 05 Sep 2003
Robert MacCulloch and Rafael Di Tella
Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School and Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit
Downloads 338 (124,641)
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Job Security Provisions, Subjective Data, Employment, Unemployment

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Cost Reductions, Cost Padding and Stock Market Prices: The Chilean Experience with Price Cap Regulation

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 11 Mar 2003
I. J. Alexander Dyck and Rafael Di Tella
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit
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Price-cap Regulation, Gaming, Capture, Commitment, Stock Market

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'Plata O Plomo?': Bribe and Punishment in a Theory of Political Influence

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 21 Nov 2002
Ernesto Dal Bo, Pedro Dal Bo and Rafael Di Tella
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business - Business and Public Policy, Brown University - Department of Economics and Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit
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Lobbying, Threats, Quality of Policymakers, Official Immunity

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Are Politicians Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?

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Are Politicians Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Mar 2001
Raymond J. Fisman and Rafael Di Tella
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit
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Politician Pay, Rent-extraction, Pay-for-performance, Democracy

Are Politicians Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?

NBER Working Paper No. w9165
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 06 Oct 2002 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2010
Rafael Di Tella and Raymond J. Fisman
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Using a Terrorist Attack to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 May 2001
Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
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Crime, deterrence, observable police, displacement, natural experiment

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Capture by Threat

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Capture by Threat

Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 00-041
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 May 2001
Ernesto Dal Bo and Rafael Di Tella
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business - Business and Public Policy and Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit
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democracy, bad policies, capture, political parties

Capture by Threat

Posted: 03 Oct 2002
Ernesto Dal Bo and Rafael Di Tella
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business - Business and Public Policy and Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit

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democracy, bad policies, capture, political parties

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Culture, Beliefs and Economic Performance

Motu Working Paper No. 14-06
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 16 Aug 2014
Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School
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Beliefs, institutions, causality

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Partisan Social Happiness

Harvard Business School Working Paper Series 2000
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 01 May 2001
Robert MacCulloch and Rafael Di Tella
Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School and Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit
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Median Voter, Partisan Business Cycles, Subjective Well-Being

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Crime Distribution & Victim Behavior During a Crime Wave

William Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 849
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 30 Nov 2006
Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, University of Maryland - Department of Economics and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
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Victimization, income distribution, private security, victim adaptation

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Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others’ Altruism

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Jun 2015
Rafael Di Tella, Ricardo Perez-Truglia, Andres Babino and Mariano Sigman
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, University of California, Berkeley, University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - Laboratorio de Neurociencia
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beliefs, self-serving bias, cognitive dissonance, dictator game

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Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance against Elite Betrayal

Harvard Business School BGIE Unit Working Paper No. 17-056
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Dec 2016
Rafael Di Tella and Julio J. Rotemberg
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Harvard University, Business, Government and the International Economy Unit (deceased)
Downloads 127 (304,407)
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corruption, betrayal, populism, incompetence

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A Note on Wealth as a Corruption-Controlling Device

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 01 Apr 2005
Rafael Di Tella and Federico Weinschelbaum
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - Departamento de Economia
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Choosing agents, monitoring consumption, low wages, moral costs

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The Determination of Unemployment Benefits

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The Determination of Unemployment Benefits

Oxford University IES Applied Economics Discussion Paper No. 180
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 31 May 2001
Robert MacCulloch and Rafael Di Tella
Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School and Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit
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endogenous unemployment benefits, unemployment, politics

The Determination of Unemployment Benefits

Posted: 10 Oct 2001
Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School

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The Formation of Beliefs: Evidence from the Allocation of Land Titles to Squatters

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 14 Feb 2012
Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, University of Maryland - Department of Economics and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
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beliefs, property rights, natural experiment, institutions

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Europe vs. America: Institutional Hysteresis in a Simple Normative Model

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 May 2006
Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School
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Optimal unemployment benefits, labor market institutions, hysteresis

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A New Explanation for European Unemployment Based on Rational Institutions

ZEI, University of Bonn Working Paper No. B9 2000
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Jun 2001
Robert MacCulloch and Rafael Di Tella
Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School and Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit
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Optimal unemployment benefits, hysteresis, natural rate of unemployment

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Informal Family Insurance and the Design of the Welfare State

Oxford Univ. Applied Econ. Discussion Paper No. 195
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 09 Sep 2001
Robert MacCulloch and Rafael Di Tella
Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School and Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit
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Self-enforcing contracts, Optimal welfare generosity

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Comments on Macri’s Macro by Federico Sturzenegger

Harvard Business School BGIE Unit Working Paper No. 20-025
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 24 Oct 2019
Rafael Di Tella
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit
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Anger and Regulation

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Anger and Regulation

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Apr 2009
Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and University of Montevideo - Department of Economics
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Anger, regulation, public relations, commercial legitimacy, altruism, populism

Anger and Regulation

NBER Working Paper No. w15201
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 11 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2022
Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and University of Montevideo - Department of Economics
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Anger and Regulation

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 116, Issue 3, pp. 734-765, 2014
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 Jun 2014
Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and University of Montevideo - Department of Economics
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Commercial legitimacy, populism, public relations

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Happiness Adaptation to Income Beyond "Basic Needs"

NBER Working Paper No. w14539
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2022
Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School
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Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation

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Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation

Harvard Business School BGIE Unit Working Paper No. 17-046
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 06 Dec 2016
Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Alejandro Lagomarsino
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, University of Montevideo - Department of Economics and Harvard University
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Business Legitimacy, State Capacity, Meetings, Taxes, Top 1%, Regulation.

Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation

NBER Working Paper No. w22934
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 19 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2022
Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Alejandro Lagomarsino
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, University of Montevideo - Department of Economics and Harvard University
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The Welfare State as a Substitute for a Conservative Central Banker

Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 00-094
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Sep 2003
Robert MacCulloch and Rafael Di Tella
Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School and Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit
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Inflation, unemployment benefits, endogenous welfare state

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Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals

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Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals

Cato Papers on Public Policy Vol. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 20 Mar 2013
Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and University of Montevideo - Department of Economics
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prison-industrial complex, U.S. Incarceration Rate, death penalty in the United States, American criminal justice system, plea bargain, race and prison population

Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals

NBER Working Paper No. w17309
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 29 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2022
Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and University of Montevideo - Department of Economics
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Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals

NBER Working Paper No. w15402
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 05 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2022
Rafael Di Tella and Ignacio Franceschelli
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Northwestern University
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Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events

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Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events

Harvard Business School BGIE Unit Working Paper No. 18-039
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 30 Oct 2017
Rafael Di Tella, Lucia Freira, Ramiro H. Gálvez, Ernesto Schargrodsky, Diego Shalom and Mariano Sigman
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires University, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - Laboratorio de Neurociencia
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Crime, Biological Markers, Experiment, Victimization, Desensitization

Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events

NBER Working Paper No. w23697
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 21 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2022
Rafael Di Tella, Lucia Freira, Ramiro H. Gálvez, Ernesto Schargrodsky, Diego Shalom and Mariano Sigman
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires University, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - Laboratorio de Neurociencia
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Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?

NBER Working Paper No. w13164
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 27 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2022
Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School
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Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring

NBER Working Paper No. w15602
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2022
Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
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Reality Versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs About Privatization

NBER Working Paper No. w14483
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 17 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2022
Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, University of Maryland - Department of Economics and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
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Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream"

NBER Working Paper No. w12641
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 20 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2022
Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and University of Montevideo - Department of Economics
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Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others

NBER Working Paper No. w16645
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 27 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2022
Rafael Di Tella and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and University of California, Berkeley
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Peronist Beliefs and Interventionist Policies

NBER Working Paper No. w16621
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 18 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2022
Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and University of Montevideo - Department of Economics
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Happiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks

NBER Working Paper No. w13622
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2022
Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School
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A Resource Belief-Curse? Oil and Individualism

NBER Working Paper No. w14556
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2021
Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Robert MacCulloch
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, University of Montevideo - Department of Economics and Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School
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Choosing Agents and Monitoring Consumption: a Note on Wealth as a Corruption-Controlling Device

NBER Working Paper No. w13163
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2022
Rafael Di Tella and Federico Weinschelbaum
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - Departamento de Economia
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Persuasive Propaganda during the 2015 Argentine Ballotage

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Persuasive Propaganda during the 2015 Argentine Ballotage

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 27 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2021
Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, University of Maryland - Department of Economics and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
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Propaganda, Persuasion, Voting

Persuasive Propaganda During the 2015 Argentine Ballotage

NBER Working Paper No. w26321
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2022
Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, University of Maryland - Department of Economics and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
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Inflation, Inflation Variability, and Corruption

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 08 Apr 2004
Miguel Braun and Rafael Di Tella
Center for the Implementation of Public Policies (CIPPEC) and Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit
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Populism and the Return of the “Paranoid Style”: Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance Against Elite Betrayal

NBER Working Paper No. w22975
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2022
Rafael Di Tella and Julio J. Rotemberg
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Harvard University, Business, Government and the International Economy Unit (deceased)
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Information or Opinion? Media Bias as Product Differentiation

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 635-682, Fall 2007
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 26 Jul 2007
Bharat N. Anand, Alexander Galetovic and Rafael Di Tella
Harvard University - Strategy Unit, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit
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Reputation When Threats and Transfers are Available

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 577-598, Fall 2007
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 26 Jul 2007
Ernesto Dal Bó, Pedro Dal Bo and Rafael Di Tella
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Brown University - Department of Economics and Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit
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Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys

NBER Working Paper No. w25705
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 01 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2022
Rafael Di Tella and Dani Rodrik
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Causal Inference During a Pandemic: Evidence on the Effectiveness of Nebulized Ibuprofen as an Unproven Treatment for COVID-19 in Argentina

NBER Working Paper No. w30084
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 16 Jun 2022
Sebastian Calonico, Rafael Di Tella and Juan Cruz Lopez del Valle
University of Miami - School of Business Administration - Department of Economics, Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Universidad de San Andres
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Does Social Media Cause Polarization? Evidence from Access to Twitter Echo Chambers During the 2019 Argentine Presidential Debate

NBER Working Paper No. w29458
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 08 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2022
Rafael Di Tella, Ramiro Gálvez and Ernesto Schargrodsky
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
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Labour Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14175
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 17 Dec 2019
Rafael Di Tella and Dani Rodrik
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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The Market for Prisoners: Business, Crime and Punishment in the 'American Dream'

Harvard Business School BGIE Unit Case No. 710-042
Posted: 13 Feb 2012
Rafael Di Tella and Laura Winig
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Harvard Business School, Global Research Group

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The International Criminal Court

Harvard Business School BGIE Unit Case No. 710-060
Posted: 10 Feb 2012
Rafael Di Tella and Natalie Kindred
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Harvard Business School

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A Note on Fairness and Redistribution

Harvard Business School BGIE Unit Working Paper No. 11-059
Posted: 13 Dec 2010
Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and University of Montevideo - Department of Economics

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Inequality, Taxation, Redistribution, Political Economy

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Chronology of the Asian Financial Crisis

HBS Case number: 708-001, Harvard Business School BGIE Unit
Posted: 24 May 2009
Laura Alfaro, Rafael Di Tella and Renee Kim
Harvard University, Harvard Business School - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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