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  • 02 Mar 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

practices in the world’s largest economy. Since then, labor costs in China have risen to the point where a great deal of the original kind of manufacturing performed there has moved to lower-cost countries. Currency manipulation is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 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
Keywords: Currency; Central Banking; Borrowing and Debt; Decisions; Banking Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

Expertise From The Front Lines Of The Eurozone

Roscini As news headlines continue to validate uncertainty about the European debt crisis, HBS students have a direct line to an expert in the field. Senior Lecturer Dante Roscini (MBA 1988), the L.E. Simmons Faculty Fellow, left a... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Going Against the Flow

Brazil was defaulting on its overseas debt and hyperinflation was running rampant. Somehow, amid the country's financial fracasso, Jakurski sensed opportunity. "With inflation at times increasing 2 percent daily," he recalls, "we would... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Latin America's Decade

open markets and trade began to emerge across Latin America. In recent years, state-owned companies have been privatized, currencies stabilized, and inflation reduced. These changes have helped attract a fresh influx of View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 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
  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

  Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Abstract The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade

of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade Links Chinese Competition Expatriate Traders... View Details
  • 30 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 30, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51574 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

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 which clienteles with strong preferences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

member, its economic boom and subsequent bust in 2008, and its policy response. After implementing significant economic and political reforms in order to qualify for EU membership in 2004, Latvia had turned its sights toward joining the single-currency eurozone,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

debt. We propose that monetary policy credibility explains the currency composition of sovereign debt and nominal bond risks in the presence of risk-averse investors. In our model, low credibility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice Authors:Robin Greenwood, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel Hanson Abstract We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Profile

Rocio Parra

amazed," says Rocio, "by the variety of perspectives here. Just today, we had a case about debt restructuring in Argentina — and we got an insider's view from a Venezuelan student who had bought Argentine bonds. This is the kind... View Details
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

casebook. The cases in these modules illustrate the range of issues that arise in multinational financial management—from managing foreign currency exposures to determining a subsidiary's capital structure... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 20 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

relies heavily on foreign debt. Access to such debt is suddenly curtailed when there is a downturn in market sentiment regarding the Icelandic economy as a whole. Students will reflect on the essential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

an additional tax rate of around 11% on the longest lived capital. To pin down credit constraints as the underlying cause, we apply triple differences strategies using foreign ownership or pre-crisis debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2010 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

The Euro in Crisis: Decision Time at the European Central Bank

By: J. Gunnar Trumbull, Dante Roscini and Diane Choi
This case traces the origins and evolution of the European Central Bank, with attention to its 2010 decision concerning the purchase of Greek sovereign debt. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Currency; Central Banking; Financial Management; Sovereign Finance; Policy; Crisis Management; Europe; Greece
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  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208088 Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) Harvard Business School Note 208-113 This lesson integrated Merton's (1974) contingent claims model of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2020
  • News

Phoenix Rising

outsider, free of the usual debts to the party machine. Mitsotakis came to power as a relative outsider, free of the usual debts to the party machine. A year later, as a Harvard undergrad, Mitsotakis wrote... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint