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- 1977
- Working Paper
Mitigating Demographic Risk Through Social Insurance
By: Jerry R. Green
A two-period lifetime overlapping generations growth model is used to evaluate the possibility that social insurance can effectively offset economic risks associated with uncertainty about the rate of population growth. Crude measures of the seriousness of this type of... View Details
Keywords: Social Insurance; Econometric Models; Public Sector; Government Administration; Policy; Human Needs; Social Issues; Risk and Uncertainty
Green, Jerry R. "Mitigating Demographic Risk Through Social Insurance." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 215, November 1977.
- 2017
- Working Paper
The Need for Speed: Effects of Uncertainty Reduction in Patenting
By: Mike Horia Teodorescu
Patents are essential in commerce to establish property rights for ideas and to give equal protection to firms that develop new technologies. Young firms especially depend on the protection of intellectual property to bring a product from concept to market. However,... View Details
- February 2019 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
Innovate Safely—CT Scanners and Radiation Risk
By: Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
Luo, Hong, and Alberto Galasso. "Innovate Safely—CT Scanners and Radiation Risk." Harvard Business School Case 719-486, February 2019. (Revised December 2019.)
- 2010
- Chapter
Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability: A New Framework
By: Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of... View Details
- March 2003 (Revised August 2004)
- Background Note
Note on Risk Arbitrage
Describes the investment strategy of risk arbitrage. View Details
Chacko, George C., Randolph B. Cohen, and Marc Chennault. "Note on Risk Arbitrage." Harvard Business School Background Note 203-001, March 2003. (Revised August 2004.)
- June 1999 (Revised May 2017)
- Teaching Note
Guidant Corporation: Shaping Culture Through Systems
By: Robert Simons and Antonio Dávila
Teaching Note for (9-198-076). View Details
- 7 Mar 2013
- Keynote Speech
Positive Risk and the Innovation Commons
- 16 Dec 2009
- News
Risks and rewards of celebrity endorsements
- July 1975
- Article
An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty." Review of Economic Studies 42, no. 3 (July 1975): 375–393. (Chapter 17 in Continuous-Time Finance.)
- 01 Dec 1985
- Conference Presentation
Risk Sharing and Corporate Pension Policy
By: André Perold and Jay O. Light
- 07 Jul 2020
- Podcast
Financial Regulation and Climate Risk Management
Explore different approaches to modeling and managing climate risk from the vantage points of industry leaders Robert Litterman, a seasoned risk management expert; Nushin Kormi, a specialist in sustainable finance; and Kevin Stiroh, a financial regulator. The... View Details
- October 2019 (Revised March 2022)
- Teaching Note
Innovate Safely—CT Scanners and Radiation Risk
By: Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
Teaching Note for HBS No. 719-486. View Details
- May 2019
- Teaching Note
Elon Musk: Balancing Purpose and Risk
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-040. View Details
- 22 Jun 2013 - 23 Jun 2013
- Conference Presentation
Positive Risk and the Innovation Commons
- 2002
- Working Paper
Risk Aversion and Apparently Persuasive Advertising
By: Bharat Anand and Ron Shachar
- Fast Answer
Confronting Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
risks and strategies for addressing climate change. American City Business Journals - Find articles from local business journals. OECD iLibrary - Find books, papers, reports, View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
The Effect of Shareholder Litigation Risk on the Information Environment: The Case of Cross-Listed Firms
By: Anywhere Sikochi
I document the causal link between shareholder litigation risk and cross-listed firms’ information environment by exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in the form of a reduction in litigation risk resulting from the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Morrison v. National... View Details
Keywords: Cross-listing; Information Environment; Shareholder Litigation Risk; D＆O Insurance; Risk and Uncertainty; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business and Shareholder Relations
Sikochi, Anywhere. "The Effect of Shareholder Litigation Risk on the Information Environment: The Case of Cross-Listed Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-048, December 2016.
- 20 Mar 2018
- Working Paper Summaries