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  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44800 Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract—Minimum capital requirements are a central... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the industry of the late 1980s. In fact, real estate now is widely viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

some cases down to the source code level. Our study thus extends the concept of IP modularity to comprise the notion of hierarchy levels.   Working PapersInflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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 during the global savings glut. So investors purchased... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-040.pdf Financial Guarantors and the 2007-2009 Credit Crisis Authors:Daniel Bergstresser, Randolph Cohen, and Siddharth Shenai Abstract More than half of the municipal bonds issued between 1995 and 2009... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 1997
  • News

Facing the Music

certain albums just to have the music documented." Maintaining a strong "catalog" - the label's backlist of albums more than a year old - is often what gives a label the dependable income stream it needs to be able to take risks on new,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

debt. We propose that monetary policy credibility explains the currency composition of sovereign debt and nominal bond risks in the presence of risk-averse investors. In our model, low credibility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

learning and advice when members are already embedded in existing networks,” Koning and coauthor Sharique Hasan of Duke University argue in Prior ties and the limits of peer effects on startup team performance, published April 11 in Strategic Management Journal. The... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 29 Jun 2016
  • News

Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story

subservient to the needs of the story. “I saw Wolf of Wall Street,” says coproducer Linda Zwack Munger (MBA 1982), a former senior vice president in Lehman Brothers’ mortgage bond department. “It’s so unrealistic.” In addition to not... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; photography by Chris Taggart; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 25 Jun 2018
  • News

An Unfinished Story

ancestors—were willing to make to seek something better. Think about, especially, those early immigrants. They had no idea what they were setting forth into when they left their homes. They got on a ship, and they didn't know if they were going to fall off the end of... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Banishing Balkan Ghosts

to death.” Then in October 2000 came euphoria: Milosevic had fallen. Old friends in Belgrade, anti-Milosevic activists familiar with Djelic's talents and experience, pleaded for him to return and help rebuild. “How could I stay and lead my bourgeois lifestyle when all... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

  Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have offered a combination of low View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

finance. Hilary is focused on ensuring the customer experience is executed flawlessly – from first click to product delivery. Our entrepreneurial journey in some ways can be mapped back to one of the first parties during RC year. We met in a friend’s apartment prior to... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

better consumption smoothing, issue more foreign-currency debt. We propose that monetary policy credibility explains the currency composition of sovereign debt and nominal bond risks in the presence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

association between creativity and dishonesty, thus highlighting a dark side of creativity. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-064.pdf Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel G.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54476 Trust and Disintermediation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Marketplace By: Gu, Grace, and Feng Zhu Abstract—As an intermediary improves trust between two sides of its market to facilitate matching and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • January 2004 (Revised June 2004)
  • Case

Innovation at the Treasury: Treasury Inflation-Protection Securities (A)

By: Kenneth A. Froot, Peter A. Hecht and Christopher Edward James Payton
In 1997, the U.S. Treasury was deciding whether to proceed with a proposal to issue inflation-indexed bonds. This case explores the challenges facing innovation in the financial markets as the Treasury tries to determine whether to introduce Treasury... View Details
Keywords: Inflation; Innovation; Federal Government; Securities; Debt Securities; Risk Management; Bonds; Investment Portfolio; Capital Markets; Inflation and Deflation; Government and Politics; Innovation and Invention; United States
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  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

not get along). Study 4 investigates a moderator of the rewarding nature of matchmaking: the type of connection. We show that bridging ties are relatively more attractive than bonding ties: the more unlikely the match, the more rewarding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

they really need to be able to analyze what the chances are that the mortgage will be prepaid - in other words, what the risk is to them. What our analysis did, in addition to improving the means to price options, was to provide a way to... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

of risk capital are contributing increasingly to a massive expansion in new business, all underpinned by a deep social change and a willingness to “do things differently,” especially among the young. Drawing on his experiences and more... View Details