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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
you see as some of key factors that led to this? Luis Viceira:The Dow is an index that has traditionally included the largest companies traded in the US stock market. Its growth since its inception reflects the growth and profitability of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla Abstract—This paper shows that the network of relationships between... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
to spot potentially underpriced stocks, and major stock indexes and institutional investors lean on the metric as well. Yet, in an examination of thousands of stocks over a period of nearly 40 years, Wang and colleagues find that the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
PublicationsForward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance Authors:Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric Belsky, eds. Publication:Brookings Institution Press and Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, 2011 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
this fact. "Where the consensus today is that eighteenth-century economists believed that free trade would bring peace and prosperity to all, the mainstream of political economy at the time was actually preoccupied with how View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article instead analyses how the WTO has sought legitimacy for itself and for the underlying institution of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
create institutional pressure to spur performance improvement. By examining how organizational characteristics moderate establishments' responses to a prominent environmental information disclosure program, we provide among the first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
strategy, we decode the information in insider trading. Exploiting the fact that insiders trade for a variety of reasons, we show that there is predictable, identifiable "routine" insider trading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
funds offer a level of professional investment management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
routine part of most people's lives, there is no doubt that technology—especially Internet technology—is having a huge impact on the financial services industry. With much hype and headlines, Web trading has revolutionized the securities... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
than taxing them more heavily. Similarly, the weight of the empirical evidence is that foreign activity is a complement, rather than a substitute, for domestic activity. Much as the formulation of trade policy requires resisting the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California’s retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a system of price-fixing, then known as “fair trade.”... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
property access, which then lead to the creation of private property rights because that's the only way of solving the problem," he said. Solving the problem by treating water like any other commodity sparked lively discussion. “If the world View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
entrepreneurship in organizational sectors. Prior research suggests that firm foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity—that is, by patterns of prior foundings—including support from related markets as well as institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
this is a real worry without a clear solution. There are, however, a few possible ways to address concern. First, publicly traded corporations could be clearer in describing and reporting on their long-run research projects, which may... View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
future laws and reforms in the financial arena. One thing is clear: Despite severe criticism, the act and the institutions it created have survived almost intact since enactment. But so have condemnations. It's a puzzle, say the authors,... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
important for fundamental firm value and is only revealed following the information-rich dual trading by insiders and linked institutions Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51481 The Value of Trading Relationships in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Institutional Investors Frame Their Losses: Evidence on Dynamic Loss Aversion from Currency Portfolios Authors:Kenneth A. Froot, J. Arabadjis, S. Cates, and S. Lawrence Publication:Journal of Portfolio Management (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) in the United States in 1976 changed all that. After the passage of the FSIA, sovereign debtors started to waive their sovereign immunity. Private institutions could now sue foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro