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- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
era before unemployment soared, the Dow plummeted, and credit default swaps surfaced. In today's jargon, these owners are underwater—they owe more than the value of their homes. But underwater is a misnomer. People underwater either swim...
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- Portrait Project
Rafiq Ahmed
often I felt the tension between my identities as American and Muslim. When I started to get questions about my faith, I defaulted to simplistic explanations defining myself as a good Muslim surrounded by a sea of Muslim extremists...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
has not had any defaults on $7.2 million in loans—large for a budding market like Singapore. At Austin-based online lending platform Able, founders Evan Baehr and Will Davis (both MBA 2011) have devised their own novel incentive to ensure...
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Nancy Miller
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51574 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation...
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
must address a major design problem: Sophisticated investors have been gaming the system by applying specialized screening tools to scoop up the choicest loans with the lowest default rates, leaving less experienced investors with less...
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- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
borrowers are defaulting less.” Before recent interest rate hikes, American homeowners had been reaping the benefits of record home prices, cashing out amid a buying frenzy. However, data from the National Association of Realtors showed...
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- 27 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: Revisiting Rental Housing
Podcast with: Nicolas Retsinas Interviewer: Sean Silverthorne Running Time: 13 min., 22 sec. Renters are the forgotten underclass of American policymakers. Although a third of all U.S. citizens rent their dwelling, rental stock is in poor shape, short supply, and...
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- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
of Debt Forgiveness: Strategic Default Contagion and Lender Learning By: Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo Abstract—I use a unique data set of loans to small business owners to examine whether lenders face adverse consequences when they grant debt...
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Dina Gerdeman
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HBSGrid Project Directory Space Notifications - Research Computing Services
Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes HBSGrid Project Directory Space Notifications The default size for project directories on the Research Grid is 50GB, with increases granted upon request. When a project directory is...
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Change Your Unix Command Prompt - Research Computing Services
there's plenty of explanation. So let's present one customization to make this always visible line a productive tool that shines! Show Me Where I Am! You can see that with the default prompt, we're presented with the current user and the...
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Personal Package Policy | About
76 Arlington Street in Watertown (1-800-742-5877). Be judicious about using your office address for the delivery of personal packages. The occasional delivery of an expensive item or a surprise for a family member is manageable, but please do not use your office...
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News by country
How can I find today's news by country? Factiva: aggregates news from thousands of national and local newspapers, magazines, trade publications and transcripts. Go to News Pages then choose country from drop down menu. the default is...
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- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
Abstract—We estimate the causal effect of sovereign default on the equity returns of Argentine firms. We identify this effect by exploiting changes in the probability of Argentine sovereign default induced...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
make it move the way you want," says Malloy. Team members Nami Singhal, Trish Higgins, and Yura Mikhalev (all MBA 2013) used a case that Singhal had studied about Argentina's volatile political system as background information to predict that the country would...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Staying Afloat
foreign investors or foreign capital. In 1991, due in large part to defaults on payments by customers in the Soviet Union and other crumbling communist economies, the shipyard found itself $260 million in debt, hounded by five thousand...
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- Web
Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making - Course Catalog
otherwise better decisions by others, including employees, clients, customers, counterparts in other organizations, and the public at large. Topics may include risk and loss aversion, inattention, memory, intertemporal choice, networks, organizational norms, View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
doesn't increase its debt limit on October 17, it will start defaulting on its bills—an unprecedented event in the nation's history. Senior Lecturer Joseph B. Fuller, a member of the School's Entrepreneurial Management Unit and an expert...
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by Jim Aisner
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Day in IFC: Marta Milkowska (HKS), United Kingdom - MBA
insights that would later help us ideate on the product design! The rainy day savings team ready to embark on a field research in Brixton. That’s me conducting qualitative interviews on savings patterns in Brixton. This is my teammate Elizabeth collecting user feedback...
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- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
decision to invest in a very large and very risky project. If done as part of the corporate balance sheet, there is a possibility that the project could drag the parent or "sponsoring" company into default if the project gets...
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Bloomberg: Investment Management course tips
Stocks Traded Outside the United States How can I screen for equities and other securities in Bloomberg? Valuation of Defaultable Fixed-income Instruments How can I find holders of stocks and bonds in Bloomberg? How do I look up and...
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