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  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

find that during the 2008 financial crisis, PE-backed companies increased investments relative to their peers, while also experiencing greater equity and debt inflows. The effects are stronger among financially constrained companies and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2008
  • Teaching Note

Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Teaching Note for [708042]. View Details
Keywords: Mortgages; Debt Securities; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Central Banking; Policy; United States; Europe
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  • 08 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

As today's fiscal deficit and dragging economy continue to cast long shadows, it's easy to forget much darker times in American history. Shortly after winning its independence from Great Britain, the United States was bankrupt. Individual states weren't required to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking
  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

identifying the effects of bank credit supply. First, we focus on firms' choice between two close forms of external financing: bank debt and public bonds. By conditioning the sample of firms raising new debt, we can rule out a demand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

got a US government that lacks the latitude to move that it had in the 1980s: large government debts and obligations facing the US now threaten to crowd out the investments in infrastructure, innovation, and individuals that we need to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • April 2011 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

The Greek Crisis: Tragedy or Opportunity?

By: Dante Roscini, Jonathan Schlefer and Konstantinos Dimitriou
After its 2009-2010 fiscal crisis shook the euro, could the Greek government stabilize debt, avoid default, and stay on the euro? This case looks at the Greek social and political road to fiscal crisis; the economics of that crisis and efforts to recover from it; the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Currency; Financial Condition; Central Banking; Financial Markets; International Finance; Policy; Conflict Management; Cooperation; Public Administration Industry; Greece
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  • 15 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 15

Returns By: Greenwood, Robin, and Dimitri Vayanos Abstract—We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

Ulrike Malmendier Abstract To what extent do peers affect our occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

short-term volatility of inflation-indexed bond returns do not invalidate the basic case for these bonds, that they provide a safe asset for long-term investors. Governments should expect inflation-indexed bonds to be a relatively cheap form of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

accumulated $74 billion in debt and beginning in 2014, the island had withheld debt payments despite the commonwealth’s constitutional guarantee of its general obligation bonds. In turn, the island found... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

across contestants of different abilities, most respond negatively to competition, and highest-skilled contestants respond positively. In counterfactual simulations, we interpret a number of tournament design policies (number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Apr 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

larger or different role in the debate? For example, should the Big Three argue for much higher mileage goals, however difficult they may seem at the moment to meet? After all, Toyota may owe the Japanese government a debt for holding it... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

deep historical origins of 'born global' companies; the importance of networks and diaspora in new international market development; the key role of public policy in shaping cross-border entrepreneurial activity; and the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308009 Kinyuseisaku: Monetary Policy in Japan Harvard Business School Case 708-017 Toshihiko Fukui, Government of the Bank of Japan, faced a complex... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

performance response to added contestants varies non-monotonically across contestants of different abilities, most respond negatively to competition, and highest-skilled contestants respond positively. In counterfactual simulations, we interpret a number of tournament... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

business. The book describes a conceptual framework, "the culture cycle," for managing culture that comprises setting and meeting expectations; establishing trust, engagement, and ownership among employees and customers that makes possible the successful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

in response to a perceived security threat resulting from the Soviet policy of "Peaceful Coexistence" as well as Soviet misunderstanding and neglect of the anti-colonial revolution. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

than that of other CEOs. CEO turnover sensitivity to firm performance is also significantly higher in founder-director firms compared to non-founder firms. Overall, the evidence suggests that boards with founder-directors provide more high powered incentives in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2015
  • Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

were unable to provide new loans to underwrite company growth. “The recessionary measures that were taken in Greece were not the cause of the crisis.” Even large companies that could ordinarily rely on public equity or debt markets... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 22 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 22

Working Papers Debt Redemption, Reserve Accumulation, and Exchange-Rate Regimes By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Foreign participation in local-currency-bond markets in emerging countries has increased dramatically over the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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