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- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
Authors:Jakub Wojciech Jurek and Luis M. Viceira Revised Working Paper Author's Abstract We develop an analytical solution to the dynamic portfolio choice problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon who faces an investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
is that green is more expensive, leading to greater capital investment required upfront. To progress the projects, investors need to be comfortable with the risk profile in that regulatory environment." In China, he added, where the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
of Arts and Sciences, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.amacad.org/pdfs/challenges.pdf Information Risk and Fair Values: An Examination of Equity Betas Authors:Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
persists as the biggest threat to private minority shareholders in these firms. Book: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2217627 Working Papers Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market By: Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
savings market, but they were reluctant to invest in risky new ventures. Custom and prudence dictated that the trustees of these firms confined their investments to high-grade bonds or blue-chip securities. [ARD's acting president Ralph]... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 16 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Out of PE, Into Africa
bonding experience. Our hope is that this will give us perspective and a foundation to dampen the inevitable conflicts of our upcoming adolescent parenting years.A few thoughts if you are considering such a trip: Just do it! It's easy to... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
risk, no competitors, and no political uncertainty around election outcomes, regime change, or expropriation. Historically, all of these factors have been favorable in the United States and that’s why the municipal bond market is so... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Finally, the long-run risks model implies extremely low yields and negative-term premia on inflation-indexed bonds. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14788 Measuring the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
the extra costs (not directly borne by the global producer) and risks of cross-border operation continue to be very significant. As a result, the net price premia, adjusted for risk, available to producers of globally standardized... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
always the risk of embarrassment: Maybe no one would sign up. On the other hand... Sahlman knew for a fact that whenever one of his colleagues offered a course that focused on people in a deal-making context, students signed up in droves.... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
What gave investors the confidence to risk their money? In a recent monograph, Musacchio reports that Brazilian companies were transparent about their operations, including the disclosure of executive compensation—something not even done... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
end of the yield curve. Using data from 26 countries, the yield spread between 30-year and 10-year government bond yields is negatively related to the ratio of pension assets (in funded and private pension and life insurance arrangements)... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
on an undefeated team that earned a #5 national ranking, Swearengin ended his playing career as part of a thrilling 38-31 victory over the Washington Huskies in the 1993 Rose Bowl.) Football, Swearengin says, gave him self-confidence, taught him personal... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
through expected future bond risk premia. If a QE operation is expected to be undone in the near term, then its announcement will have a hump-shaped effect on the yield and forward-rate curves; otherwise the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
ancestors—were willing to make to seek something better. Think about, especially, those early immigrants. They had no idea what they were setting forth into when they left their homes. They got on a ship, and they didn't know if they were going to fall off the end of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
that from time to time they will take on more risk than they should. In another study, Hanson found that investors who were around to see firsthand a hiccup in the bond market in 1998 were less enthusiastic... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
to death.” Then in October 2000 came euphoria: Milosevic had fallen. Old friends in Belgrade, anti-Milosevic activists familiar with Djelic's talents and experience, pleaded for him to return and help rebuild. “How could I stay and lead my bourgeois lifestyle when all... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
association between creativity and dishonesty, thus highlighting a dark side of creativity. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-064.pdf Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel G.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54476 Trust and Disintermediation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Marketplace By: Gu, Grace, and Feng Zhu Abstract—As an intermediary improves trust between two sides of its market to facilitate matching and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
they really need to be able to analyze what the chances are that the mortgage will be prepaid - in other words, what the risk is to them. What our analysis did, in addition to improving the means to price options, was to provide a way to... View Details