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  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

Harvard Business School Note 706-044 Describes the emergence of several kinds of efforts to assure the safety of foreign investment in emerging markets: international arbitration, expanded official political risk insurance, credit from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

non-CEO executives in banks with materialistic CEOs insider trade more aggressively around government intervention during the financial crisis. Finally, we find that banks with materialistic CEOs have significantly more downside tail risk... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

of these firms face various issues—including management of exchange rate risk, how to structure their internal capital markets, how to do capital budgeting worldwide, and how to respond to varying regulatory and tax incentives. The book... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 02 Jul 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

pay wages? Why pay loans? With what? What does a "no" mean? What does a "yes" guarantee? These weeks have been a nightmare, with no medium of exchange and banks facing growing lines of depositors who want to withdraw... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

explore interventions at the individual level and focus on recognized cognitive barriers from behavioral decision-making literature. In particular, we highlight three cognitive barriers that impede sound individual decision making that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

consistency in our guiding principles, such as supporting human rights, without sacrificing much-needed nuance and variation in strategy (e.g., backing military intervention in one case but not another). Third, diplomacy should be guided... View Details
Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities
  • 23 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

IASB is working closely with the FASB to converge the U.S. and IAS standards. The Securities and Exchange Commission has even considered letting foreign companies list on U.S. View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services
  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

discussed supporting innovation through a range of additional policy interventions, including tax credits, loan guarantees, IP policy, regulatory mandates, codes, and standards. It is critically important that these kinds of interventions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

forthcoming IMF Economic Review Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

would continue hedging primarily with forward contracts, but in much higher volumes and at increasingly unfavorable rates, or to break with past practice and begin using foreign exchange option contracts.... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 25 Aug 2015
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foreign officials, and the packaging and sale of toxic securities to naïve investors-require ethically problematic judgments and behaviors. However, dominant models of workplace unethical behavior fail to account for what we have learned... View Details
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

sovereign default induced by legal rulings in the case of Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital. We find that a 10% increase in the probability of default causes a 6% decline in the value of Argentine equities and a 1% depreciation of a measure of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715432-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-019 A Currency We Can Call Our Own: Populism, Banking Crises, and Exchange Rate Crises in Argentina, 1946-2002 The case describes Argentina's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

said Howson, who focuses on mergers and acquisitions, project finance, and capital markets in his firm's Beijing office. The creation of domestic capital markets, increasing access to foreign capital, legal changes in corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

information environment in which foreign subsidiaries operate affects investment decisions in multinational corporations (MNCs). We hypothesize and find that foreign subsidiaries in country-industries with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

headquarters are large (255 median staff for a 20,000 FTE MNC) and European headquarters smaller (124). Implications are drawn that countries will lose activities if domestic firms are acquired by foreign MNCs, and that MNCs need to allow... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

and pairs researching similar clinical areas. Our results suggest that matching between scientists may be subject to considerable frictions-even among those in relatively close geographic proximity and in the same organizational system. At the same time, even a brief... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

executive branch a credible political excuse not to act. Maurer cautions that these institutions are now under strain and that a collapse might open the empire trap once more. With shrewd and timely analysis, this book considers American patterns of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

important contributor to sustained economic growth than such things as openness to trade, a competitive exchange rate, level of foreign investment, or the quality and stability of a country's political... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

on bond risks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2332106 Opting Out of Good Governance By: Foley, C. Fritz, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein, and Eric Zwick Abstract—Cross-listing on a U.S. exchange does not bond... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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