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  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

  Working PapersThe 'Thin Film of Gold': Monetary Rules and Policy Credibility In Developing Countries Authors:Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick Abstract This paper asks whether developing countries can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

on those less familiar with the reporting standards. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1430589   Working Papers Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2002
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Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity

solvent and that a credible monetary policy will emerge, he said. The country also needs international support, but such aid may be hard to come by now. Asked if converting the Argentine money supply into... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'

monetary policy over the past two years, and yet, not only is the economy robust, housing prices are robust. It's almost a mystery as to why things are so strong with such significant tightening. Layne:... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Banking
  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

firms ushered in increasingly accommodating policies to attract and retain staff. Turnover rates steadily decreased, while compensation expectations increased. This has fundamentally challenged the long-standing “up or out” model: As... View Details
Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting
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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

specifications, and monetary value of Edwin Land's new instant photography system that would be commercially released in 1948. Memorandum to Polaroid Company: Submitted by George Albert Smith, Jr. and John G. McLean, 1945-1946. Land,... View Details
  • 15 May 2007
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First Look: May 15, 2007

Africa by 2010. The announcement raised questions whether debt relief would really help the poor. By examining past aid trends and policies of multilateral institutions, such as the International Monetary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

Competing platforms are affected negatively because more information intensifies price competition. Publisher's link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2360263   Working Papers Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jan 2007
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Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

Chairman, Synthes, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1959 M.S., Civil & Structural Engineering LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "I learned so much in C. Roland Christensen's Business View Details
  • 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

flows. The hyperbole was striking: The language of religion—orthodoxy, heresy, dogma—seems for some reason to pervade policy discussions of international monetary and financial issues. And the prevailing... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 14 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

outcome of that deep ambivalence within the Russian political elite has been a real inconsistency of foreign economic policies toward the region. One can see that, certainly, in its policies towards the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Aug 2018
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Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

pressures from globalization have very different outcomes in terms of, say, income and wage inequality.” This suggests, he continued, that domestic social and political choices and the public policy mix are all important. “Rather than... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

and Matthew C. Weinzierl Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

state court ruled that the Board of Health did not have the authority to implement such a policy, it remains a legally viable option for governments and a voluntary option for restaurants. However, there is very limited empirical data on how such a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

making by high-affinity syndicates post investment. Taken together, our results suggest that non-ability-based "birds-of-a-feather-flock-together" effects in collaboration can be costly. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W18141 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2011
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Alumni Books

risk management on Wall Street and at other major financial centers. The book breaks down the events involved in the 2007–2008 financial collapse, reveals how botched policy responses made a bad situation worse, and focuses on lessons... View Details
Keywords: Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

Monetary Economics Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm-Level Evidence By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2019
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Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?

peterhowell Summing Up: Is the Current US Economic Expansion Primarily in the Hands of the Fed? New applications of technology and the expansion of the service economy may contribute to prolonged economic expansion. But they represent just two of many other influences.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
  • 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

men from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID), the model accurately fits entry patterns into self-employment by age. The option value of returning to paid work is found to constitute a substantial portion of the monetary value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne