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  • Article

On the Political Economy of Temporary Stabilization Programs

By: Laura Alfaro
This paper provides a political economy explanation for temporary exchange-rate-based stabilization programs by focusing on the distributional effects of real exchange-rate appreciation. I propose an economy in which agents are endowed with either tradable or... View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; Economy; Balance and Stability; Programs; Currency Exchange Rate; Cash; Value; Distribution
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  • 29 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

attentiveness to trivial details,” as defined in a recent research study, can drag down relationships, result in recriminating behavior, and ruin the good intentions behind very generous donations. On the flip side, leaving room for error in View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • April 1993
  • Teaching Note

Grupo Industrial Alfa, S.A.,1982 (TN)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Teaching Note for (9-292-008). View Details
Keywords: Cash Flow; Borrowing and Debt; Restructuring; Rights; Business Strategy; Negotiation; System; Business Conglomerates; Currency Exchange Rate; Energy Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Mexico
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  • November 2010 (Revised July 2011)
  • Supplement

Oriflame S.A. (B)

By: David F. Hawkins and Karol Misztal
Exercise for recording derivative hedging transactions, accompanied by a technical note on IFRS derivative accounting. View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; International Accounting; Currency Exchange Rate; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Standards; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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  • May 2006 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

China: To Float or Not To Float? (F)- Alcatel and Strong Chinese Competition

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
The Chinese operations of Alcatel, a global communications solution provider based in France, were faced with strong local competition and a difficult market. It remained unclear how Alcatel would be able to recover growth in the Chinese market. Initiatives were... View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; International Relations; Growth and Development Strategy; Research and Development; Competitive Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Communications Industry; China; France; United States
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  • September 2010 (Revised March 2012)
  • Teaching Note

China "Unbalanced" (TN)

By: Diego A. Comin and Richard H.K. Vietor
Teaching Note for 711010. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Policy; Trade; Currency Exchange Rate; Energy; Investment; China; United States
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  • January 1995 (Revised May 1997)
  • Case

Syscom Computers

By: Kenneth A. Froot, Peter Tufano and Chris L Marshall
Discusses a company deciding what it should do to manage its worldwide hedging operations. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Currency Exchange Rate; Information Management; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Operations
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  • October 2008
  • Teaching Note

Samoa Tala (TN)

By: Joshua D. Coval, Bhagwan Chowdhry and Konark Saxena
Teaching Note for [209053]. View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Risk Management; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Microfinance; Strategy; Borrowing and Debt; Currency; Cash Flow; Samoa
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  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

From left: Scott Duke Kominers and Charles C.Y. Wang (Image by John Ritter) Cryptocurrencies have been edging their way out of the periphery for the last decade and proliferating as they go: About 18,000 digital currencies currently exist... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 15 Sep 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Averting Crisis

website can see the probability that a given sector within a certain country is currently experiencing a bubble. For users seeking a longer-term perspective, the site also includes a historical database of banking, stock market, and View Details
  • September 2007
  • Case

Tetra Pak Argentina

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Gustavo A. Herrero
Deals with the hands-on management of a difficult situation facing the subsidiary of a multinational corporation (Tetra Pak) in a developing country (Argentina). The situation arises from a major economic, social, and institutional breakdown that jeopardizes the... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Currency Exchange Rate; Sovereign Finance; Multinational Firms and Management; Crisis Management; Business and Government Relations; Argentina
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  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System

a historical database of banking, stock market, and currency crises in more than 60 countries since 1800. In addition to regular meetings among the Harvard-based scholars, the project organizes occasional conferences and invites renown-... View Details
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future? Austin Brown comments: Cryptocurrencies also have no inherent value in and of themselves, so the big question here is whether or not they are actually a good mechanism by which to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2010 (Revised December 2011)
  • Supplement

Oriflame S.A. (C)

By: David F. Hawkins and Karol Misztal
Notes from Oriflame's 2009 annual report relevant to the assessment of the monetary impact of Oriflame's FX risk management actions. View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; International Accounting; Currency Exchange Rate; Annual Reports; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Standards; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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  • March 2005 (Revised June 2005)
  • Case

Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (B)

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Financial Crisis; Foreign Direct Investment; Currency Exchange Rate; Inflation and Deflation; Demand and Consumers; Interest Rates; Capital; System; Central Banking; Chile
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  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

system of Asian currency pegs that some commentators dubbed “Bretton Woods II.” In 2006 Chinese holdings of dollars almost certainly passed the trillion dollar mark. (Significantly, the net increase of China’s foreign View Details
Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
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Media

Media

This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

mid-August, the biggest currency adjustment in two decades. But continued trading volatility climaxed on Aug. 23 in what many have called China’s “Black Monday.” Shanghai stocks dropped by 8.5 percent overnight, their steepest single-day... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)

appointment as director general of Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission. MORE The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs MORE The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna