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- 2007
- Case
Deriving by Doing: A New Approach to Teaching Finance
By: Joshua Coval, Jonathan Gadzik and Erik Stafford
- 2007
- Working Paper
Investor Sentiment in the Stock Market
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
Real investors and markets are too complicated to be neatly summarized by a few selected biases and trading frictions. The "top down" approach to behavioral finance focuses on the measurement of reduced form, aggregate sentiment and traces its effects to stock returns.... View Details
- May 2007
- Article
Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance
By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to... View Details
- April 2007 (Revised October 2007)
- Background Note
An Overview of Project Finance & Infrastructure Finance - 2006 Update
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and infrastructure finance, and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2002 to 2006. Examples of project-financed investments include the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon... View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence
By: Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, C. Fritz Foley and Kamal Saggi
- March 2007 (Revised March 2011)
- Teaching Note
The Nikkei 225 Reconstitution (TN)
By: Robin Greenwood
Teaching note to 207109. View Details
- March 2007 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
The Nikkei 225 Reconstitution
By: Robin Greenwood
Taka Haneda, a proprietary trader at the Tokyo office of Goldman Sachs, has just learned that the Nikkei 225 will undergo a significant redefinition over the coming week. He faces several billion dollars of customer orders, as well as the opportunity to commit the... View Details
- Article
Dividend Policy inside the Multinational Firm
By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
- Article
Investor Sentiment in the Stock Market
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
We examine how investor sentiment affects the cross-section of stock returns. Theory predicts that a broad wave of sentiment will disproportionately affect stocks whose valuations are highly subjective and are difficult to arbitrage. We test this prediction by... View Details
- March 2007
- Article
The Internal Markets of Multinational Firms
By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
- February 2007
- Case
Behavioral Finance at JP Morgan
By: Malcolm P. Baker and Aldo Sesia
Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group believes that understanding investor biases like... View Details
- February 2007
- Background Note
BASIX Simulation Model
By: Peter Tufano and Shawn A. Cole
Explains how to use Crystal Ball to simulate the insurance decision in the BASIX case. View Details
- February 2007 (Revised October 2007)
- Case
BASIX
By: Shawn A. Cole and Peter Tufano
BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, weather insurance pays if measured rainfall during the growing season falls below a pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah,... View Details
- February 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Supplement
Multifactor Models (CW)
By: Malcolm P. Baker
- 2007
- Other Paper
Venture Capital and Private Equity Distributions: Pricing Policies and Price Reactions
By: P. Gompers, Andrew Metrick and Timothy Dore