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- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
read in Washington since it was submitted to Congress in January by a Congressional Oversight Panel. Congress created the five-member panel last October when it enacted the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to rescue...
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- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
asset, yields frustratingly inconsistent, discrepant, and, therefore, controversial results. While it is widely accepted that brands are long-lived assets that can contribute significant value to firms over time, there is no consensus on...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54634 forthcoming Journal of Finance Limited Investment Capital and Credit Spreads By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary credit default swap (CDS) data, I investigate how capital shocks at protection sellers...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
boost earnings to meet earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
capitalists. He cofounded BlackRock in 1988 and has grown it into the world’s largest money manager with more than $6 trillion in assets under management. Yet many other fund managers, private equity executives, and activist investors...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
compared to consensual sovereign bond restructurings. A few holdout investors refused to concede and sued. These so-called "vulture" investors, hedge funds that bought the defaulted loans at deeply reduced prices and then sued...
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by Laura Alfaro
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
2000s, a period during which Treasury bonds enabled investors to hedge macroeconomic risks. This paper develops a New Keynesian macroeconomic model with habit formation preferences that prices both bonds and stocks. The model attributes...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
scale, these alternative players have the potential to fundamentally change the way in which small businesses access capital, creating greater competition, price transparency, and a better customer experience. Emerging online players are...
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- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
pay package despite the industry slump? Or was it “unreasonable and insensitive,” as shareholder Royal London Asset Management claimed? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/116063-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
School Note 811-016 This note discusses how some firms (start-ups and established companies) maximize customer value and profits via their pricing processes. It is aimed at companies that compete on the basis of performance initiatives...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
and using 'money' facilitates the exchange of goods and services. So we are still capitalists " Barry Shere commented that "I do not see how profits are neutered as a result of the pressure on prices and margins per transaction....
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- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
applications and complications follow. The first module is purely about markets and provides the basics about exchange rates and asset pricing in a global economy. Modules 2 through 4 consider how firms are...
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- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
labor-intensive manufacturing process and the high prices of Zotter chocolates limit the scalability of the company, even though the founder desires to grow. While the founder has many ideas for the firm, it is not clear which path would...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
likely economically motivated to invest in OSS projects that can serve as a complementary asset to vendors' core, proprietary businesses. Download this working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
know whether Venezuela plans to pay a fair price for the assets that it is nationalizing. In the ITT story I tell in my book, Indonesia nationalized ITT's telecommunications facility in 1980, but it paid a...
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- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1638429 Accounting Scholarship That Advances Professional Knowledge and Practice Author:Robert S. Kaplan Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
to be known as the Black-Scholes option pricing model. "Don't misunderstand me—getting some education about your financial affairs is a good idea, just as having some understanding of your medical needs is a good idea," Merton...
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- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
rebalancing in the financial portfolio of participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half of idiosyncratic passive variations in the risky asset share....
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26
through its development bank (BNDES), we find a positive effect of those stakes on firms' return on assets and on the capital expenditures of financially constrained firms with investment opportunities. However, these positive effects are...
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Sean Silverthorne