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  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

appeal of anonymity seems inherently flawed for storing large values in an age when the threat of identity theft through electronic eavesdropping and in-person, gun-to-the-head demands for access and asset transfers are a growing menace.... View Details
Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

the company were liquidated. Market value reflects the total value of a public company’s outstanding shares based on the market price for a share. A stock with higher book-to-market ratio, such as when it is higher than 1, is considered... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 31 Oct 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

Another tool to stimulate a distressed economy has made its way into the playbooks of central banks across the world. With quantitative easing, known as QE for short, a central bank makes it easier to borrow money by buying long-term View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

experiments to test theoretical predictions of why adoption may be low. Insurance purchase is sensitive to price, with an estimated extensive price elasticity of demand between -0.66 and -0.88. Credit constraints, identified through the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

industry factors. The evidence on these interrelationships and the importance of multinationals to local economies suggests that global firms may be an important channel for transmitting economic shocks. This evidence also sheds light on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School

signature insight which established his reputation permanently. To be brief: John Lintner—the capital asset pricing model. Howard Raiffa—Bayesian decision theory. Georges Doriot—venture capital. Theodore... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Education
  • 22 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 22

traditional banks have a comparative advantage at holding fixed-income assets that have only modest fundamental risk but are relatively illiquid and have substantial transitory price volatility. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?

rock the boat when they are leaving," speculates Ma. By contrast, when Ma and Khanna measured the effects of firm performance on likelihood of dissent, they found a much lower correlation. A one unit increase in the ratio of a firm's market value to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

But they are riskier than the stock market, so cryptocurrency markets are dominated by speculators or traders. Another constituent is the long-term investors, who take a long-horizon macro view on these assets being a less-dumb form of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

Publication:Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (spring 2011) Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

In the midst of this crisis, VHSS, the German Shipbroker's Association, introduced a proposal to value ships using discounted cash flow analysis (to determine a long-term asset value, LTAV) rather than market View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

the scientists themselves. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52220 January 2017 American Economic Review Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers By: Cavallo,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

which are bonds whose proceeds are used for environmentally sensitive purposes. After an overview of the U.S. corporate and municipal green bonds markets, we study pricing and ownership patterns using a simple framework that incorporates... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

South Africa, for example, the government's support for the transfer of assets to the historically disenfranchised native African community—a laudable social objective—has affected the development of the capital market. Such transfers... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha
  • 04 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

headquarters reminds us that a brand is a precious asset. The value of any brand asset depends upon whether it has delivered on its past promises and is believed likely to do so in the future. It takes years of effort to build brand trust... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Financial Services
  • 05 Sep 2000
  • What Do You Think?

Whither the Information Economy?

made possible by a shifting "mix" featuring less product-centered and more information-centered economic activity. Skyrocketing price-earnings ratios of information-rich corporations are a natural result of this. Growing ratios of market-to-book value that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/bcfsurvey2v20.pdf Comovement and Predictability Relationships Between Bonds and the Cross-Section of Stocks Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:Review of Asset View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

patients, and 12% of total Medicare spending are associated with physician beliefs unsupported by clinical evidence. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49218 Stock Price Synchronicity and Material... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

selling the client firm's stock. This overweighting is not explained by superior information. We quantify a potentially large benefit to the 401(k) sponsor firm of having its price propped up by its trustee fund's more severe... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

sustainability of nominal debt in developing (volatile) countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/05-053.pdf The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data Authors:Laura Alfaro and Faisal Z. Ahmed Abstract We use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne