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- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
subject to the constraints of market mechanisms. In this chapter, I outline another alternative to shareholder primacy that aims to improve upon existing alternatives and avoid some of the difficulties they encounter. I argue that even though business enterprises are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance companies, the largest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
care, security, and more). These are valid reasons. But there are workarounds that work. At Harvard Business School, my research looks at ways that the private sector can finance and deliver public infrastructure. For the last three... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
transparency, and by increasing liquidity by establishing a set of pricing processes that involve the private market as well as whatever this public entity is. "How is this exactly going to work? Nobody knows," Light continued.... View Details
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
to capital, which was a primary focus of hers at the SBA. Spreading The Wealth Having spent over 25 years in private equity and venture capital firms before becoming SBA Administrator, Mills has perspective on challenges and opportunities... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
private equity fund invests in distressed businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, and Dozie soon found himself responsible for a coffee cherry washing station in the volcanic hills of western Rwanda. Up until that point, Dozie’s only sense... View Details
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
was critical in getting the ball rolling for Relay Rides, a service allowing customers to rent neighborhood cars from private owners by the hour or by the day. (Clark also got some “Air Time” in the December Bulletin. By the fall of his... View Details
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
the California power industry, for example, she questioned the deregulation of wholesale markets first. Second, in response to consumer confusion, an anonymous respondent suggested that government could play a role in insuring that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
(MultiBank), focusing on its insurance division (EurInsurance), which suffered large losses in the European insurance crisis of 2002-2003. At MultiBank, the insurance crisis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W15551 Labor Regulations and European Private Equity Authors:Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
similar to the failures we have seen historically. Again, I believe private markets should price and provide the catastrophe insurance for the resulting risks, not public guarantees. The issue in my mind is... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
consumption fluctuations faced by individuals, households, and firms. Yet much of this promise remains unrealized. In this paper, we study the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product designed to compensate low-income Indian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
the largest investors in bonds—banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds—aren't willing to pay because they think they do a much better job than the rating agencies. What I propose is a neutral third-party approach to ratings. The SEC... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
the Democrats are probably unhappy that the Republicans passed the prescription drug law. And some don’t like the fact that it relied on private insurance providers. Do drug companies have sufficient patent... View Details
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
(May 1972): 399-418. Bodie, Zvi. "What the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Can Learn from the Federal Savings-and-Loan Insurance Corporation." Journal of Financial Services Research 10, no. 1 (January 1996): 83-100. Bodie, Zvi, and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
ramifications that need to be dealt with as public policy. As for the notion that private-sector efficiency automatically reduces costs, consider that most private health insurance companies spend 10 to 30... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
Reg Q was a capital control instituted during the New Deal to keep banks from raising the rates they paid savers and then chasing risky investments for a big payoff — all with federally insured funds. To get around Reg Q’s focus on U.S.... View Details
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
complicated, Kaplan says. One reason is the multiplicity of payers, including Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial insurance companies, with reams of contracts differing in coverage and procedure prices. The different contracts don’t even... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Business School Case 817-088 Hygeia Group: Delivering Quality Care in Nigeria Fola Laoye is the Group Managing Director of Hygeia Group, a Nigerian healthcare insurer and provider, and she is deciding on the optimal strategy to grow the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne