Publications

December 2005 (Revised July 2006)
Case

What Should the Federal Reserve Do? Thoughts of Greenspan and Bernanke

By: Lakshmi Iyer and Noel Maurer

Presents remarks by Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke on monetary policy, explicit inflation targets, and the relative merits of asset price targeting. View Details

Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Asset Pricing; Central Banking; Financial Strategy; Policy; Banking Industry

February 2015 (Revised April 2017)
Case

Edyficar and Mibanco: The Emergence of M&A in Microfinance

By: Michael Chu

Mibanco, a microfinance icon, is for sale, and Edyficar, owned by Banco del Credito (BCP), Peru's largest bank, is evaluating its acquisition. Until recently, such a transaction would have been fanciful given Mibanco's preeminent role in Peruvian microfinance, which... View Details

Keywords: Base Of The Pyramid; Peru; Latin America; Microfinance; Commercial Banking; Mergers and Acquisitions; Banking Industry; Latin America; Peru

02 Oct 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Gradualism in Monetary-Policy: A Time Consistency Problem?

Keywords: by Jeremy C. Stein & Adi Sunderam; Banking

April 2008 (Revised October 2008)
Supplement

TD Canada Trust (C): Translating the Service Model to Service Operations

By: Dennis Campbell and Brent Kazan

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Business Model; Service Operations; Banking Industry; Canada

November 2004 (Revised April 2005)
Case

Deutsche Bank: Finding Relative Value Trades

Deutsche Bank's Fixed Income Research Group is looking for yield curve trades to pitch to clients as well as for their proprietary trading desk. The group has data on recent bond trades and a proprietary term structure model, which they can use to develop trading... View Details

Keywords: Bonds; Capital Markets; Investment Banking; Institutional Investing; Banking Industry; Germany

01 Feb 2000
News

Financial Services 24/7

"What did people do before ATMs?" That's a question that causes most twentysomethings to draw a blank. They don't remember the days when people conducted their banking - face-to-face with a teller - between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

May 1986
Case

Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (A): The Competitive Advantage

By: Shoshana Zuboff

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Information Management; Competitive Advantage; Banking Industry; Brazil

June 1995
Case

Banc One Corporation (A)

As Banc One's use of derivatives had proliferated, investors and analysts had expressed increasing concern about the size of derivative portfolios, the potential sensitivity of their value to interest rate swings, and the lack of standardized reporting on their use.... View Details

Keywords: Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Investment Banking; Financial Reporting; Annual Reports; Banking Industry

2000
Chapter

Main Banks, Creditor Concentration, and the Resolution of Financial Distress in Japan

By: Brian J. Hall and David E. Weinstein

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Financial Condition; Banking Industry; Japan

January 1990
Case

Citibank in Zaire (Abridged)

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Banks and Banking; International Finance; Banking Industry; Congo, Democratic Republic of the

June 1985
Case

Chemical Bank: Payments Automation Project (A) (Condensed)

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Technology; Banking Industry

1992
Chapter

Cheap Talk about Monetary Policy

Keywords: Central Banking; Policy; Money; Banking Industry

March 2009 (Revised October 2009)
Teaching Note

Washington Mutual's Covered Bonds (TN)

By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser and Robin Greenwood

Teaching Note for [209093]. View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Bonds; Banking Industry

May 1986
Case

Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (D): Implementation of the Central Liabilities Pilot

By: Shoshana Zuboff

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Information Management; Banking Industry; Brazil