Local Government Finance - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Aug 2020
News

Inflation Is Actually a Lot Higher Than You Think

19 May 2020
News

U.S. Equity Markets Stubbornly Ignore the Doom Everywhere

15 Apr 2020
News

'On the Edge'

15 Nov 2019
News

What Deval Patrick Did At Bain Capital

01 Dec 2018
News

Diversity and Diminishing Tax Revenues

01 Aug 2018
News

Are share buybacks 'plundering company resources'?

12 Oct 2016
News

What separates honest executives from white-collar criminals

01 Dec 1997
News

Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution

these ventures is competitive advantage and profit. For Israeli companies, cooperation can open up new markets, provide cost-effective outsourcing opportunities, and significantly lower the costs of production, which is especially important for what will otherwise be... View Details

Keywords: Michael Porter, Yagil Weinberg, and Noreena Hertz

01 Sep 2010
News

Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

The 2010 Alumni Achievement Award recipients have made their mark in a wide range of fields, from banking and investing to retailing, entrepreneurship, and space exploration. United by their leadership skills, each of these alumni is living proof that while the... View Details

Keywords: awards; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance

01 Jun 2024
News

Turning Point: On the Line

Theatricals. One of the great 14-year-old Tevyes in a summer-camp production of Fiddler on the Roof. Disney was my foot in the door. While churning out budgets and quarterly projections as a finance executive, I took a sitcom-writing... View Details

Keywords: labor strike; television; media; unions

Fast Answer

Real estate: emerging markets

seventy-five country risk-related variables including political, economic, financial, and government stability. Also includes domestic and international economic indicators, social indicators, ICRG Risk Ratings, and Coplin-O'Leary... View Details

1983
Book

The Effects of Banking Deregulation

By: D. B. Crane, Ralph C. Kimball and William C. Gregor

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

Citation

Find at Harvard

March 2006 (Revised April 2015)
Case

China: To Float or Not To Float? (B)- Timeline of Changes Relevant to the Chinese Renminbi

By: Laura Alfaro and Rafael M. Di Tella

On July 21, 2005 China revalued its decade-long quasi-fixed exchange rate of approximately 8.28 yuan per U.S. dollar by 2.1% to 8.11% and, at the same time, introduced a more market-based exchange rate system. Many analysts and economists were disappointed with what... View Details

Keywords: Currency; Exchange Rate; China; Macroeconomics; Trade; Currency Exchange Rate; Governance Controls; Policy; China; United States

Citation

Educators

Purchase

Fast Answer

Sustainability in the Transportation Industry

Mobility which was a collaboration between Bloomberg New Energy Finance and McKinsey, seeks to answer that question. To do so, it explores how a number of existing social, economic, and technological trends will work together to disrupt... View Details

28 Mar 2020
News

The House passes $2 trillion package to help Americans

12 Jun 2019
News

Experts Look Beyond the Incumbents: Why Smaller Players are Winning

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

properly? Possibly," she said. "Could they potentially put social pressure on CEOs who are acting badly?" Global Threatens Local Harvard Business School's Jan W. Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

2023
Working Paper

Saving and Consumption Responses to Student Loan Forbearance

By: Justin Katz

How do households adjust savings and consumption in response to liquidity from debt relief? I study this question using policy variation induced by federal student loan forbearance in the 2020 CARES Act and an individual-level panel of daily financial transactions for... View Details

Keywords: Saving; Consumer Behavior; Borrowing and Debt; Interest Rates; Financial Liquidity; Personal Finance; Government Legislation

Citation

SSRN

14 Apr 2020
News

COVID-19, Global Markets, and Global Macroeconomic Policy Responses: Financial Markets and the Fed in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Article

Media versus Special Interests

By: Alexander Dyck, David Moss and Luigi Zingales

We argue that profit-maximizing media help to overcome the rational ignorance problem highlighted by Anthony Downs. By collecting news and combining it with entertainment, media are able to inform passive voters about regulation and other public policy issues, acting... View Details

Keywords: Media; Profit; Government and Politics