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- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
very own debtors' prisons. Their task is Sisyphean: they work, pay the monthly debt to the lender, yet see a perpetual gap between payments and value. The payments can seem like an extortion episode from The Sopranos. Exit strategies are...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
single largest reform initiative is the Strategic Compact. Its goals are to make the Bank more user-friendly and client-responsive by moving more resources, personnel, and budgetary and decision-making power into the field. Along with this decentralization, View Details
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Garry Emmons
- Web
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career path. You may model your letter on the donor thank-you letters you wrote as an enrolled student with added personalized information on your job and how you've applied your HBS education. I participated in the terminated HBS-HMS pilot program to reduce View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced firm risk, consistent with a decrease in debt-equity conflicts of interest. The...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
research in finance and economics. We propose two tests to evaluate how well measures of financial constraints actually capture constraints. We find that firms typically classified as constrained do not in fact behave as if they were constrained: they have no trouble...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
Indonesia and Nigeria, along with India – could well obliterate all the progress in greenhouse gas emission reductions produced in the global north. Sinha cited three main risks that have choked the financing of green transition projects...
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- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://hbr.org/2010/03/bold-retreat/ar/1 Lawsuits and Empire: On the Enforcement of Sovereign Debt in Latin America Authors:Laura Alfaro, Noel Maurer, and Faisal Ahmed...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
hosts who have never had an African-American guest, suggesting only a subset of hosts discriminate. While rental markets have achieved significant reductions in discrimination in recent decades, our results suggest that Airbnb’s current...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
to European banks, we evaluate a variety of interventions to reduce their vulnerability to fire sales during the sovereign debt crisis. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
recall leads to a one-month reduction in time to major innovation. Our results suggest that product failures influence subsequent innovation but that their impact is dependent upon recall source, proximity, and severity. The strategic and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
through the intermediary. We show that this leads to inflated retail prices, excessive adoption of the intermediaries' services, over-investment in benefits to buyers, and a reduction in consumer surplus and sometimes welfare. Competition...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
private equity management were oversold companies taken over by private equity groups have been stripped of their assets and hold unsustainable debt burdens." Gerald Nanninga, in lamenting the decline of "emotional...
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by Jim Heskett
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
access to public institutional debt and equity capital markets and the uncertainty of small business profits makes retained earnings a necessarily less stable source of capital. About 48 percent of business owners report a major bank as...
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- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
complex way than the literature has previously suggested: a higher share of entrepreneurial peers leads to lower rather than higher subsequent rates of entrepreneurship. However, the decrease in entrepreneurship is entirely driven by a significant View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
tranches. Overall, a one standard deviation reduction in average time on the market decreases the interest rate for institutional loans by over 30 basis points per annum. While this effect is significantly larger for loan tranches bought...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Wenxin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—Nominal debt provides consumption-smoothing benefits if it can be inflated away during recessions. However, we document empirically that countries with more countercyclical inflation, where nominal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
model is defaultable bank liabilities that provide liquidity services to households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
on average, the implementation of the preferential incentive plan was associated with improvements in sales. Also, we find that this plan was associated with greater improvements in sales and gross profits as well as reductions in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
reductions in higher-order multiple (HOM) live births (defined as three or more fetuses), following the initial publication of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) guidelines on ET in 1998. Design: Descriptive use and...
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