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- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Working PapersThe Long-Run Risks Model and Aggregate Asset Prices: An Empirical Assessment Authors:Jason Beeler and John Y. Campbell Abstract The long-run risks model of asset prices explains stock price variation as a response to persistent fluctuations in the mean...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
short-term price volatility of U.S. Treasury bonds has been about 5.5 percent per year in real terms—that is, after correcting for inflation. This volatility is certainly small when we compare it to the...
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by Ann Cullen
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
Working PapersInvestable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Authors:Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala, and Monica Singhal Abstract The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19
decreased volatility of supply shocks and increased volatility of the Fed's long-run inflation target. Endogenous responses of bond risk premia amplify these effects of monetary policy on bond risks....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
least a quarter of per capita income differences. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-093.pdf Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? Authors:Diego A. Comin, Bill Easterly, and Erick Gong Publication:American...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8
income taxation. I show analytically how age dependence improves policy on both the intratemporal and intertemporal margins. I use detailed numerical simulations, calibrated with data from the U.S. PSID, to generate robust policy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
is true. When Di Tella benchmarked these results against a sample of residents from the Buenos Aires metropolitan area with generally higher income and education levels, their responses tallied closely to the beliefs of squatters who hold...
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by Julia Hanna
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
get the water they need to support basic human survival is not the perfect solution either. "You still have the problem of the huge year-to-year volatility of water available," said one student. "You absolutely have a...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
stock market is overvalued and may experience some volatility as the economy continues to recover, Wang’s research suggests that investors may be relying too heavily on a formerly tried-and-true tool that isn’t paying off as well today....
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by Rachel Layne
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
reactors lacked sufficient power to achieve cooldown. To prevent the disaster experienced up north, the site superintendent, Naohiro Masuda, and his team had to connect them to the plant's surviving power sources. In a volatile...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
older and return more cash to shareholders. We show that, taking into account issuances, net shareholder payouts by all U.S. public firms during the period 2007–2016 were in fact only about $3.33 trillion, 41% of their net income. We also explain that net View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Also, people are more attuned to the knowledge that geopolitical strife is influenced by environmental issues, such as how American dependence on Persian Gulf oil colors its behavior in that volatile region. It is only in recent years...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
commit to providing EV reports. Moreover, I document that EV reporting is more widespread in countries with more hostile takeovers, managers that do not avoid volatile income measures, regulators that are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
Supporting Tax-time Savings with U.S. Savings Bonds Author:Peter Tufano Abstract This paper reports the results of a 2007 experiment testing if specific process simplification can enhance savings by low-to-moderate income (LMI)...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
short-term volatility of inflation-indexed bond returns do not invalidate the basic case for these bonds, that they provide a safe asset for long-term investors. Governments should expect inflation-indexed bonds to be a relatively cheap...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
absolutely not. To be sure, companies in developing countries face serious challenges, including political instability, volatile exchange rates, and an underdeveloped physical infrastructure. More critically, they must contend with three...
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- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
still contains many subsistence farmers or folks who are living off of meager agricultural incomes and transfers from the state or their relatives in the big cities. So to compete with all of those site-specific issues would be a...
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by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
US business interests. If you put aside feelings about partisanship and individuals, there were a number of things the Trump administration did that were supportive of business growth and economic growth. But the volatility and...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
selected through exit early in their careers, made time allocation decisions such as delayed marriage, and tended to migrate to places that were conducive to innovation. Father's income was positively correlated with becoming an inventor,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
contrast, we don’t find evidence of a secular shift in the cross-country correlations of stock market volatility shocks, which have remained fairly low through time except during the financial crisis of 2009. Download working paper:...
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Dina Gerdeman