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- Spring 2013
- Article
The Growth of Finance
By: Robin Greenwood and David S. Scharfstein
The U.S. financial services industry grew from 4.9% of GDP in 1980 to 7.9% of GDP in 2007. A sizeable portion of the growth can be explained by rising asset management fees, which in turn were driven by increases in the valuation of tradable assets, particularly...
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Greenwood, Robin, and David S. Scharfstein. "The Growth of Finance." Journal of Economic Perspectives 27, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 3–28.
The Growth of Finance
The U.S. financial services industry grew from 4.9% of GDP in 1980 to 7.9% of GDP in 2007. A sizeable portion of the growth can be explained by rising asset management fees, which in turn were driven by increases in the valuation of tradable assets, particularly...
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- June 2019
- Article
Brokers vs. Retail Investors: Conflicting Interests and Dominated Products
By: Mark Egan
I study how brokers distort household investment decisions. Using a novel convertible bond dataset, I find that consumers often purchase dominated bonds—cheap and expensive versions of otherwise identical bonds coexist in the market. The empirical evidence suggests...
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Keywords:
Brokers;
Fiduciary Standard;
Consumer Finance;
Structured Products;
Household;
Investment;
Decisions;
Motivation and Incentives;
Conflict of Interests
Egan, Mark. "Brokers vs. Retail Investors: Conflicting Interests and Dominated Products." Journal of Finance 74, no. 3 (June 2019): 1217–1260.
- 22 Jul 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors
- 2004
- Working Paper
Regulation and Reaction: The Other Side of Free Banking in Antebellum New York
By: David A. Moss and Sarah Brennan
Free banking, which first appeared in the United States in the late 1830s, comprised two essential features: general incorporation for banks and rigorous security requirements for note issue. Because the general incorporation feature is what allowed free entry, it has...
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- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
position is strong enough. To curb this possibility, the principal-owner optimally reduces the degree of autonomy granted to the manager. Hence higher levels of managerial autonomy are more likely for intermediate levels of competition....
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Martha Lagace
Bharat N. Anand
Bharat N. Anand is the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning at Harvard University, and the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Professor Anand is an expert in digital strategy, media and...
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Keywords:
broadcasting;
entertainment;
information;
media;
motion pictures;
music;
publishing industry;
sports;
television
- December 2019
- Article
Brokers and Order Flow Leakage: Evidence from Fire Sales
By: Andrea Barbon, Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni and Augustin Landier
Using trade-level data, we study whether brokers play a role in spreading order flow information. We focus on large portfolio liquidations, which result in temporary drops in stock prices, and identify the brokers that intermediate these trades. We show that these...
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Keywords:
Predatory Trading;
Back Running;
Fire Sales;
Brokers;
Stocks;
Price;
Information;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Ethics
Barbon, Andrea, Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, and Augustin Landier. "Brokers and Order Flow Leakage: Evidence from Fire Sales." Journal of Finance 74, no. 6 (December 2019): 2707–2749. (LEAD ARTICLE.)
- 01 Feb 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks
- 15 Jul 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
- 2020
- Working Paper
Institutional Corporate Bond Pricing
By: Ishita Sen, Lorenzo Bretscher, Lukas Schmid and Varun Sharma
We compile a rich dataset that links institutional investors' position level holdings with corporate bond characteristics and estimate demand elasticities with respect to critical sources of risk. Persistence in institutions' holdings provide us with an instrument to...
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Keywords:
Corporate Bonds;
Demand Systems;
Insurance Companies;
Mutual Funds;
Liquidity;
Bonds;
Insurance;
Investment Funds;
Financial Liquidity
Sen, Ishita, Lorenzo Bretscher, Lukas Schmid, and Varun Sharma. "Institutional Corporate Bond Pricing." Working Paper, December 2020. (Revised January 2022. Revise and Resubmit, Review of Financial Studies.)
- 13 Jan 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Intermediaries for the IP Market
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by Andrei Hagiu & David Yoffie
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
and Moritz Schularick Abstract For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a world economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with U.S. over-consumption. The financial crisis of...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Required Curriculum - MBA
transparency, fairness, privacy, and bias. Finance 1 This course examines the role of finance in supporting the functional areas of a firm, and fosters an understanding of how financial decisions themselves can create value. Topics...
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- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
residential mortgages. This expansion was itself fueled by the development of non-bank credit intermediation (or "shadow banking"). Whether the growth of the financial sector has been socially...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Placement - Doctoral
(2018-2019), Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Economist (2019) Dissertation: Essays in Financial Intermediation Advisors: David S. Scharfstein, Victoria Ivashina, and Adi Sunderam Oren Danieli Business...
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- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
Publisher's link: http://ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=101124706&site=ehost-live&scope=site March 2015 Journal of Financial View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Finance - Faculty & Research
widen due to a future demand-and-supply imbalance. We show that a proxy for the intermediated quantity of swaps—dealers’ net position in Treasuries— flipped sign during the Global Financial Crisis when swap...
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- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
the original proofs of Ehlers and Klaus (2003) using his stronger independence condition, here we offer a short proof that uses the established result of Theorem 1 for the restricted domain R0. Download the working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-110.pdf Debt...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We...
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