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  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

income remained relatively stable, about 3 to 1. Over the last 20 years, however, the financial markets that financed the housing system in the United States changed remarkably. Local markets once dominated by tightly regulated savings... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

least a quarter of per capita income differences. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-093.pdf Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? Authors:Diego A. Comin, Bill Easterly, and Erick Gong Publication:American... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Promise & Perils

reforms that began in 1978 have stoked annual growth in excess of 9 percent, three times that of the United States. Per capita income among the nation’s 1.3 billion inhabitants has more than quadrupled, surpassing $1,000 last year.... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309093 Chronology of the Asian Financial Crisis Harvard Business School Case 708-001 In July 1997, Thailand became the first Asian "tiger" economy to abandon its View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

The Moderate Solution: How We Can Balance the Federal Budget (And It Isn’t Even That Hard) by David B. Wilson (MBA 1985) (Integer Press) Wilson offers reasoned centrist solutions for fixing the federal budget deficit. He begins by... View Details
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

presentation of special items within the financial statements reflects the firm's underlying economic performance or opportunism. We examine the presentation of recognized special items either as a separate line item on the income... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

parts. Implications for diversity research are discussed.   Working PapersUnobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem Authors:Faisal Z. Ahmed and Eric Werker Abstract Autocrats experiencing a windfall in unearned income... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Futures and Call Spreads: An Arbitrage Approach." Journal of Fixed Income 4, no. 4 (March 1995): 46-57. Dixit, Avinash K., and Robert S. Pindyck. Investment Under Uncertainty . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton... View Details
  • 29 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

  Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic states and state prices. In View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

income of the importing country. Because most low-income countries import the bulk of capital goods, our results provide suggestive evidence that capital goods are more expensive in poor countries, consistent with the conventional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

engage (or not engage) in our workplaces, homes, and communities. A Boyhood in Wartime Britain by Michael H. Coles (MBA 1961) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Collecting shrapnel from his front yard; identifying incoming... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

America's greatest economic asset. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/03/reviving-entrepreneurship/ar/1 Fixing What's Wrong with U.S. Politics Author:David A. Moss Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both standard and two-sample instrumental variable strategies, we show education increases financial market participation, measured by investment View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2019
  • News

The Merchant of Osaka

country where women hold only 5 percent of senior leadership roles. Her strategy is radically simple: fix the system by designing for the patient. She’s leading a quiet shift, not a noisy revolution, but in Japan and particularly for... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

intermediary to charge consumers fixed fees, to offer them screening contracts, and to subsidize search allowing stores' strategic decisions to be contractible or controlled by the intermediary. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

everyone everywhere in the world in unprecedented ways and the consequences are real,” says incoming HBS MBA student Isha Khambra, a member of the Students Fight COVID initiative. “Despite these challenges we—now and in the past—have seen... View Details