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- 2012
- Book
The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy
In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power...
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History;
Sovereign Finance;
Ethnicity Characteristics;
Economics;
Great Britain;
United States
McCraw, Thomas K. The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy. Harvard University Press, 2012.
- February 1993 (Revised May 1993)
- Case
President Clinton and the Federal Deficit
By: George C. Lodge
Lodge, George C. "President Clinton and the Federal Deficit." Harvard Business School Case 793-111, February 1993. (Revised May 1993.)
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
three years. The company must decide its growth strategy and how best to finance and organize for rapid growth. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806003 PublicationsCorporate Legitimacy...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Laura Alfaro to Costa Rican Post
country’s new president, Laura Chinchilla. An expert on international economics, including foreign direct investment, financial markets, and sovereign debt, Alfaro, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, was honored as a Young Global...
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- August 2015
- Article
A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity
By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson and Jeremy C. Stein
We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless paper, it trades off the monetary premium associated with...
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Greenwood, Robin, Samuel G. Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein. "A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity." Journal of Finance 70, no. 4 (August 2015): 1683–1722. (2015 Brattle Group Distinguished Paper for an outstanding corporate finance paper published in the Journal of Finance. Internet Appendix Here.)
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
mainstream. In spite of a host of complicating factors, from a basic lack of defined terms to the difficulty of measuring returns, demand is only going up. In response, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole and senior lecturer Vikram Gandhi, a...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- November 2005
- Teaching Note
Japan: Deficits, Demography and Deflation (TN)
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
non-executive Merrill directors even attended the meeting. Stories of boards and CEOs failing to do their jobs on behalf of shareholders can also be told about AIG, Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Citigroup, Countrywide, Fannie Mae, View Details
- 1983
- Other Unpublished Work
Federal and State Infrastructure Banking: Political and Institutional Issues
By: Dutch Leonard and Richard P. Nathan
- Web
Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring - Course Catalog
countries as well as infrastructure, municipal, and sovereign restructuring. Although CVCR is primarily a finance course, students will also often have to take an interdisciplinary approach to problem...
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- June 1985 (Revised August 1994)
- Background Note
U.S. Government Debt Market and the Structure of Interest Rates, The
Concerns U.S. Government Debt Market and various conventions used to depict the structure of interest rates.
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Mason, Scott P. "U.S. Government Debt Market and the Structure of Interest Rates, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 285-186, June 1985. (Revised August 1994.)
- 1995
- Other Unpublished Work
The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1994
By: Dutch Leonard and Monica E. Friar
- 2000
- Other Unpublished Work
The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1999
By: Dutch Leonard and Jay H. Walder
- 2004
- Other Unpublished Work
The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 2003
By: Dutch Leonard and Elizabeth Keating
- March–April 2015
- Article
The Almighty Ruble
By: Debora L. Spar
At 1 AM Moscow time on December 16, Russia's central bank announced a massive hike in the country's interest rate, from 10.5% to 17%. It's not clear how Russian leader Vladimir Putin and his colleagues could realistically have expected to achieve anything by hiking the...
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Spar, Debora L. "The Almighty Ruble." Foreign Policy 211 (March–April 2015).
- April 1992 (Revised September 1993)
- Case
Poland--1989
By: Debora L. Spar
Describes the political and economic situation in Poland in 1989, following the country's first democratic elections and the subsequent establishment of a Solidarity-led government. After examining the legacies left by 40 years of Communist rule, the case lays out the...
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Spar, Debora L. "Poland--1989." Harvard Business School Case 792-091, April 1992. (Revised September 1993.)
- 1994
- Other Unpublished Work
The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1993
By: Dutch Leonard and Monica E. Friar
- 1997
- Other Unpublished Work
The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1996
By: Dutch Leonard and Jay H. Walder