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- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
The risk taken in a politician’s private investment portfolio is a strong indicator of whether that person will cross legal or ethical lines in office. The riskier the portfolio, the more likely the lawmaker will be involved in at least... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
management. We find a large effect: pre-Reg FD the return premium from school ties was 8.16% per year, while post-Reg FD the return premium was nearly zero and insignificant. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-074.pdf View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- January 2008
- Teaching Note
Credit Risk: Valuing Risky Debt & CDOs (TN)
By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
Teaching Note for [208111] and [208113]. View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
on asset location issues. He has a theoretical paper arguing that households that face a risk of becoming unemployed should hold risk-free assets outside of their tax-deferred accounts. This advice goes counter to the tax-efficient... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- Web
Investment Strategies - Course Catalog
bonds outstanding. Every day, public markets set prices for CEOs and CFOs, financial institutions, and investors, all seeking to raise and invest money in a way that drives the economy forward. A public exit - whether through an initial... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
argue that the puzzling combination of high-frequency excess sensitivity and low-frequency decoupling between short- and long-term rates can be understood using a model in which (i) shocks to short-term interest rates lead to a rise in term View Details
Keywords: by 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
- January 2005 (Revised October 2005)
- Background Note
Standard & Poor's Sovereign Credit Ratings: Scales and Process
By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Christopher Bruner
Describes Standard & Poor's sovereign credit ratings scales and the credit rating process. In particular, describes the role and function of the rating committee and the analytical categories considered in arriving at a final sovereign credit rating. View Details
Keywords: Financial Markets; Credit; Bonds; Policy; Risk and Uncertainty; Measurement and Metrics; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Services Industry
Abdelal, Rawi E., and Christopher Bruner. "Standard & Poor's Sovereign Credit Ratings: Scales and Process." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-027, January 2005. (Revised October 2005.)
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
Froot used a careful examination of a single transaction in the emerging market for catastrophic risk bonds to motivate a search for explanations for anomalies in the pricing and structure of this market.... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Property), lured by the prospect of exciting careers in a hot market. But the question arises: After several boom years, is commercial real estate ripe for another fall? I don't see risks that you would associate with a bubble.—Stephen... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/bcfsurvey2v20.pdf Comovement and Predictability Relationships Between Bonds and the Cross-Section of Stocks Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:Review of Asset Pricing Studies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
deleveraging that made them sell European sovereign debt. But the ECB's most powerful weapon - intervening in the bond market - is still locked away. Draghi needs to create consensus among the German "hawks" who worry about the... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 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
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
persists as the biggest threat to private minority shareholders in these firms. Book: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2217627 Working Papers Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market By: Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Out of PE, Into Africa
bonding experience. Our hope is that this will give us perspective and a foundation to dampen the inevitable conflicts of our upcoming adolescent parenting years.A few thoughts if you are considering such a trip: Just do it! It's easy to... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Finally, the long-run risks model implies extremely low yields and negative-term premia on inflation-indexed bonds. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14788 Measuring the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
always the risk of embarrassment: Maybe no one would sign up. On the other hand... Sahlman knew for a fact that whenever one of his colleagues offered a course that focused on people in a deal-making context, students signed up in droves.... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
end of the yield curve. Using data from 26 countries, the yield spread between 30-year and 10-year government bond yields is negatively related to the ratio of pension assets (in funded and private pension and life insurance arrangements)... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
that from time to time they will take on more risk than they should. In another study, Hanson found that investors who were around to see firsthand a hiccup in the bond market in 1998 were less enthusiastic... View Details