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- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
argue that the considerable moral hazard of private regulatory enforcement can be mitigated by the scope of organizations' product/service portfolios and by private governance mechanisms. These... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
the primary regulator of every systemically risky institution is just not practical. That means it would need to be an expert on money market funds, hedge funds, and life insurance companies as well as banks. Second, if you identify an institution as systemically... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
risky, you’re creating moral hazard implicit federal guarantees by that very process. Third, you’re assuming that we can know in advance every institution that’s systemically risky, but I don’t think that’s... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
return profile is going to go down, and the cultures at these firms are going to change dramatically over the next couple of years." The Risk Of Moral Hazard David Moss, professor and historian,... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Working Papers Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency Authors: Paharia, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
exposed to risks of natural and man-made disasters. How do you organize a business for success when it must on a nearly daily basis cope with hazards ranging from minor mishaps to large-scale catastrophes? Alan and Harriet Lewis have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
particularly a very public one. But high leverage does its disadvantages. Obviously, it can increase the probability of bankruptcy. It can also create incentive problems. When equity holders have too little "skin in the game," View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
control rights and cash-flow rights in the borrowing firms exacerbates potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large shareholders, thereby increasing credit risk and monitoring needs.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
in choosing between a traditional mode (where the firm takes control of service provision) and a platform mode (where professionals retain control over service provision). The choice of mode is determined by the need to balance two-sided View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
contrast, “we cause disasters that happen to ourselves,” he said. But there’s a built-in tension between having the state protect businesses from failure and allowing financial evolution to take its course, resulting in moral View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
paper, we argue that the considerable moral hazard associated with private regulatory monitoring can be mitigated by the scope of the monitoring organizations' product/service portfolios and by their private... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
http://www.innovation-enterprise.com/archives/vol/15/issue/1/article/4941/sustaining-innovation-when-outsourcing-components Ethically Adrift: How Others Pull Our Moral Compass from True North Authors:C. Moore and F. Gino... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
rights and efficient debt enforcement mitigate the effect of excess control rights on loan spreads. Taken together, our results suggest that potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
R. Cross reveals the man behind the art. It is the surprising story of a life led on the front lines of history. In that life, this Everyman made archetypal images of American culture, endowed with a force of moral urgency through which... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
since both types of acquirer (and the target) can access misvalued debt markets. However, moral hazard and insurance effect differences between types of buyers interact with potential debt misvaluation debt,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
(forthcoming) Abstract There are a large number of cases where corruption has been discovered investigating levels of consumption that appear to be hard to justify. Yet, in the standard moral hazard model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
fertility is characterized by moral hazard due to the fact that most contraception can only be perfectly observed by the woman. Using an experiment in Zambia that varied whether women were given access to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
processing techniques that have eliminated or greatly reduced hazardous waste contaminants. In recent years, for example, the company has invested $100 million to improve fundamental paper pulp processes and eliminate molecular chlorine,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
In response to a special Bulletin survey, hundreds of HBS alumni selected the people, products, and events that in their view have most affected business over the last 75 years. These intrepid respondents also did some crystal-ball gazing, View Details