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- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
financing—multinational firms with access to foreign capital, for example—recovered more quickly than companies reliant on local financing. Companies may do well to consider that fact as they position themselves to weather the next... View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
of all, I'll say that this isn't a crisis, but a significant correction. It's the result of a general reduction in confidence in the Indian economy and, in turn, has fed further angst. The fall of the rupee comes at a time of corrections to other emerging market View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- January 1996 (Revised February 1998)
- Case
Japan's Automakers Face Endaka
By: Debora L. Spar
In April 1995, the Japanese yen hit a post-World War II high against the U.S. dollar. The yen's relentless ascent affected firms on both sides of the Pacific, but fell particularly hard on Japan's big four automakers. This case explores how endaka--or"high... View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Competitive Strategy; Trade; Foreign Direct Investment; Macroeconomics; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Japan
Spar, Debora L., Julia Kou, Elizabeth B. Stein, and Karen Gordon. "Japan's Automakers Face Endaka." Harvard Business School Case 796-030, January 1996. (Revised February 1998.)
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
could go on as usual were out of sync with reality. Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail in the days ahead. — Laura Alfaro Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at HBS. She has focused extensively on international capital flows, View Details
- January 1987 (Revised September 1991)
- Case
Walt Disney Co.'s Yen Financing
By: W. Carl Kester and William B. Allen
Walt Disney is considering hedging future yen inflows from Disney Tokyo. It is evaluating techniques using FX Forwards, swaps, and Yen term borrowings. Goldman Sachs presents a rather unusual but potentially attractive solution: Disney could issue ECU Eurobonds and... View Details
Kester, W. Carl, and William B. Allen. "Walt Disney Co.'s Yen Financing." Harvard Business School Case 287-058, January 1987. (Revised September 1991.)
- April 2010
- Teaching Note
Groupe Ariel S.A.: Parity Conditions and Cross-Border Valuation (Brief Case)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and James Quinn
Teaching Note for 4194 View Details
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
Mortgage Debt on Homes Other Than Farm Homes at the Fourteenth Census, 1920 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1923). Ham, Arthur H. A Credit Union Primer; an Elementary Treatise on Cooperative Banking (New York City: Division... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Person Page
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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 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
the situation that must be rectified." Kapil Kumar Sopory cited his concern that insolvency would further exacerbate inequality, expressing the fear that "This is going to lead to revolutions in the long run." Tom Dolembo added, "Dissolving a View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
spread, defined as the spread of local currency bonds over the synthetic local currency risk-free rate constructed using cross-currency swaps. We find that local currency... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically. We revisit sovereign debt sustainability under the assumptions that countries can... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
losing 1 billion of dollar reserves in one month, the Argentine government began imposing a series of currency controls, limiting the ability to buy foreign currency. As of October 2011, Argentina's tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?
With the rise of mobile payment apps like Venmo, many people can easily record the exact charges incurred by a lunch partner and pay back debts to the cent. They see themselves as efficient and fair. Others often have a different word for... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
for the next few years—maybe larger, maybe smaller (barring some catastrophe). Thus, net foreign debt will rise. Thus, the dollar will weaken. Thus, there will be upward pressure on real interest rates thus,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
"How about 'No new taxes after these new taxes'?" © James Stevenson/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com As Congress starts the next round of debt ceiling negotiations, the US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups are... View Details
- October 2008
- Teaching Note
Samoa Tala (TN)
By: Joshua D. Coval, Bhagwan Chowdhry and Konark Saxena
Teaching Note for [209053]. View Details
- Student-Profile
Fanele Mashwama
regulation. In the first, he is looking at episodes of capital flight in emerging markets and the way that the currency composition of firm liabilities can have serious ripples effects in times of turbulence. “Firms in emerging markets,... View Details
- April 2011
- Teaching Note
The Euro in Crisis: Decision Time at the European Central Bank (TN)
By: J. Gunnar Trumbull, Dante Roscini and Diane Choi
Teaching Note for 711049. View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
Africa's aggregate wealth has been transferred to foreign bank accounts, according to the World Bank. In Africa and elsewhere, the movement of corrupt and tax-evading money drains hard currency reserves,... View Details