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- 13 Jul 2011
- News
House Democratic Tax Writer Says Debt Fight Poisons Reform
- 28 Jul 2020
- News
2020’s States with the Highest & Lowest Credit-Card Debts
- 04 Mar 2025
- News
Harvard Re-Enters Debt Market With $450 Million Bond Sale
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Good cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management
Joint work with Alexander Gümbel, Saïd Business School and Lincoln College Oxford
In this paper we examine how the quantity of information generated about firm... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
To Pay Or Not To Pay: Argentina And The International Debt Market
- December 9, 2011
- Comment
Solving the Debt Crisis May Be Europe's Biggest Step Forward
By: Dante Roscini
Roscini, Dante. "Solving the Debt Crisis May Be Europe's Biggest Step Forward." Harvard Business Review Blogs (December 9, 2011).
- May 2006 (Revised January 2007)
- Teaching Note
The Barber of Buenos Aires: Argentina's Debt Renegotiation (TN)
By: Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
- March 2005
- Article
Sovereign Debt As a Contingent Claim: A Quantitative Approach
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
We construct a dynamic equilibrium model with contingent service and adverse selection to quantitatively study sovereign debt. In the model, benefits of defaulting are tempered by higher future interest rates. For a wide set of parameters, the only equilibrium is one... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Interest Rates; Balance and Stability; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods; Management Style; Segmentation; Debt Securities; Banking Industry
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Sovereign Debt As a Contingent Claim: A Quantitative Approach." Journal of International Economics 65, no. 2 (March 2005).
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Sovereign Debt as a Contingent Claim: A Quantitative Approach (joint with Fabio Kanczuk)
By: Laura Alfaro
We construct a dynamic equilibrium model with contingent service and adverse selection to quantitatively study sovereign debt. In the model, benefits of defaulting are tempered by higher future interest rates. For a wide parameter, the only equilibrium is one in which... View Details
- February 2010 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Negotiating Trust: Borrowers, Lenders, and the Politics of Household Debt
By: Catherine S. M. Duggan and Alexander F. Roehrkasse
Duggan, Catherine S. M., and Alexander F. Roehrkasse. "Negotiating Trust: Borrowers, Lenders, and the Politics of Household Debt." Harvard Business School Case 710-048, February 2010. (Revised March 2013.)
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
How Gen Z Can Avoid Further Student Debt in 2024
- 1994
- Other Unpublished Work
Interest Allocation Rules and the Changing Cost of Debt Finance
By: K. A. Froot and J. Hines
- 20 Jul 2021
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America's Medical Debt Is Much Worse Than We Think
- 25 May 2009
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Historian Niall Ferguson warns of debt calamity threatening the west
- April 2014
- Module Note
Debt as a Source of Value in Private Equity
Ivashina, Victoria. "Debt as a Source of Value in Private Equity." Harvard Business School Module Note 214-061, April 2014.
- 06 Mar 2021
- News
Poor countries struggling with debt fight to get help
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Americans Facing More Inequality, More Debt and Now More Trouble?
- 2015
- Chapter
Debt Management Conflicts between the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve
By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel Gregory Hanson, Joshua S. Rudolph and Lawrence Summers
Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, Joshua S. Rudolph, and Lawrence Summers. "Debt Management Conflicts between the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve." Chap. 2 in The $13 Trillion Question: How America Manages Its Debt, edited by David Wessel, 43–89. Brookings Institution Press, 2015. (Working Paper version Here.)
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The Ownership and Trading of Debt Claims in Chapter 11 Restructurings (with Victoria Ivashina and David Smith)
This paper explores a novel data set that identifies over 71,000 investors holding debt claims of 136 companies filing for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection during the period of 1998 through 2009. We investigate how concentration in debt ownership relates to... View Details