by Bo Becker - Publications - Faculty & Research

We analyze a simple stochastic environment in which policy makers can be threatened by “nasty” interest groups. In the absence of these groups, the policy maker’s desire for reelection guarantees that good policies are implemented for every realization of the shock.... View Details

Keywords: Political Parties; Politicians; Nash Equilibrium; Political Elections

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13 Jun 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

write an exciting case about this topic." Although Becker never spoke with Jules Kroll directly while writing the case, Kroll's reputation is legendary enough to speak for itself. The corporate intelligence firm he started in the... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services

31 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

how recent increases in competition among raters led to "friendlier," poorer-quality ratings. As Becker explains, "The related theory goes back to the early 1980s (especially to an influential paper View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

Awards

Case Center Awards, Finance, Accounting and Control

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Winner of the 2015 Case Centre Award in the Finance, Accounting and Control category for “Roche’s Acquisition of Genentech” with Bo Becker and Vincent Dessain (HBS Case 210-040). View Details

06 Oct 2010
News

Rating agency multiplicity

08 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

education, or economic development, finds Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Anke Becker in a recent working paper called “On the Economic Origins of Restricting Women’s Promiscuity.” Her research investigates the origin of... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

05 Oct 2010
News

The more the murkier

09 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unconscious Executive

amount of information. Studying the unconscious mind offers exciting new avenues for research, including creativity, decision making, and sleep. Research by Bos and his colleagues suggests that unconscious... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Feb 2007
Working Paper Summaries

The Value of Openness in Scientific Problem Solving

Keywords: by Karim R. Lakhani, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Peter A. Lohse & Jill A. Panetta

24 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?

tell." Next Steps In a related line of work, the researchers are studying whether our behavior is affected by how we sleep - curled up in the fetal position, for example, versus limbs sprawled across the bed. View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Consumer Products

19 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value

government's regulatory efforts to increase shareholder power at the board level following the recent financial crisis. To help answer that question, three Harvard Business School professors performed a natural experiment made possible by... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 21

for making CBA more effective, rather than eliminating CBA as a decision-making tool. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-001.pdf Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry (revised) Authors:Bo View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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How Did Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings?

Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence

Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market

Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry

Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts

Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument

Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment

Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge

Capture by Threat