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- May 2005 (Revised December 2005)
- Case
Nexgen: Structuring Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs)
A client asks Luc Giraud, CEO of the structured finance solutions provider Nexgen Financial Solutions, to put together a solution that allows the client to add AAA-rated bonds to its portfolio. The client cannot find suitably priced top-rated bonds in the market and...
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Keywords:
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Debt Securities;
Bonds;
Financial Services Industry
Chacko, George C., Peter A. Hecht, Marti Subrahmanyam, Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Nexgen: Structuring Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs)." Harvard Business School Case 205-121, May 2005. (Revised December 2005.)
- 03 Aug 2011
- News
No Ducking the Debt Ceiling
What debt ceiling? I haven’t been on Mars for the last two weeks, but close to it .off in the woods and on vacation, unplugged, untethered, and blissfully out of touch. So I missed the all-consuming topic that must have driven everyone...
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- December 2001 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
Financing PPL Corporation's Growth Strategy
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman
PPL Corp., an electric utility in Pennsylvania, needs to finance $1 billion of peaking plants as part of its new growth strategy. In February 2001, Steve May, director of finance for PPL's Global Division, is responsible for recommending a finance plan. After...
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Keywords:
Financial Management;
Financial Instruments;
Project Finance;
Financial Strategy;
Corporate Finance;
Leasing
Esty, Benjamin C., and Carrie Ferman. "Financing PPL Corporation's Growth Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 202-045, December 2001. (Revised April 2003.)
- 09 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Economics of Structured Finance
- Forthcoming
- Article
Calling All Issuers: The Market for Debt Monitoring
By: Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen and Weiling Liu
95% of long-term municipal bonds have callable features, and yet we find new evidence of a substantial fraction of local governments exercising these valuable options sub-optimally, with significant delays – resulting in sizable losses. Using data from 2001 to 2019, we...
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Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, and Weiling Liu. "Calling All Issuers: The Market for Debt Monitoring." Management Science (forthcoming).
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Social Security Reform Is the Key to the Debt Ceiling Debate
- 22 Feb 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
sector's tilt toward short-term financing was merely the industry responding to a lack of available government debt instruments, such as short-term risk-free Treasuries, that were much in demand by investors...
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- 15 Apr 2024
- News
Corporate Debt and Financial Crises
- 14 Apr 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps
- December 1986 (Revised October 1987)
- Case
Mexican Debt and Agricultural Policy
By: Ray A. Goldberg
Goldberg, Ray A. "Mexican Debt and Agricultural Policy." Harvard Business School Case 587-087, December 1986. (Revised October 1987.)
- November 2003
- Article
The Maturity of Debt Issues and Predictable Variation in Bond Returns
By: Malcolm Baker, Robin Greenwood and Jeffrey Wurgler
The maturity of new debt issues predicts excess bond returns. When the share of long-term debt issues in total debt issues is high, future excess bond returns are low. This predictive power comes in two parts. First, inflation, the real short-term rate, and the term...
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Keywords:
Borrowing and Debt;
Bonds;
Investment Return;
Financial Markets;
Forecasting and Prediction
Baker, Malcolm, Robin Greenwood, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "The Maturity of Debt Issues and Predictable Variation in Bond Returns." Journal of Financial Economics 70, no. 2 (November 2003): 261–291.
- 14 Jul 2015
- News
Debt Should be a Guide to Policy Making
- July – August 2009
- Article
The Descent of Finance
What if the current recession turns out to be like the Great Depression of 1929-1933? Four years from now, the United States might find itself with a still-shrinking economy, half as many banks as in 2009, a third as many hedge funds, and retail banking resembling a...
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- 29 Jul 2011
- News
Debt Ceiling Battle Will Cost Homeowners Big Time
- October 2012
- Supplement
Winfield Refuse Management, Inc.: Raising Debt vs. Equity, Spreadsheet for Students (Brief Case) (CW)
By: W. Carl Kester and Sunru Yong
- October 1986
- Case
World Bank and the Debt Crisis
By: Ray A. Goldberg
Goldberg, Ray A. "World Bank and the Debt Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 587-086, October 1986.
- 07 Oct 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Sovereign Debt Portfolios, Bond Risks, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy
- March 2006
- Teaching Note
Redesigning Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanisms (TN)
By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs