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2022
Working Paper

Many Markets Make Good Neighbors: Multimarket Contact and Deposit Banking

By: John William Hatfield and Jonathan Wallen

We investigate the relationship between the interest rates offered to consumers in a deposit banking market and the contact that banks in that market have with each other in other markets. We show, in a simple theoretical model, that such overlapping relationships... View Details

Keywords: Antitrust; Deposit Banking; Market Power; Multimarket Contact; Banks and Banking; Markets; Competition

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2000
Chapter

Inside the Black Box: What Makes a Bank Efficient

By: F. Frei, P. Harker and L. Hunter

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Performance Efficiency; Banking Industry

January 12, 2010
Comment

A Mistake That Will Make Banks Riskier

By: Robert C. Pozen

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Risk and Uncertainty

May 2010 (Revised January 2012)
Teaching Note

Bank of America Acquires Merrill Lynch (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Robert C. Pozen

Teaching Note for 310092 and 310106. View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Acquisition; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry

January 2008 (Revised April 2008)
Teaching Note

Pilgrim Bank (C): Statistics Review with Data Desk

By: Frances X. Frei

Teaching Note for [602103]. View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Mathematical Methods; Banking Industry

2008
Other Teaching and Training Material

Globalization Meets National Institutions: International Capital Flows, Harvard Business School Module Note Instructor Only, 708-041

By: Laura Alfaro

Keywords: Globalization; Capital; Financial Institutions; International Finance

December 2004
Case

Money and Banking in America

By: Nancy F. Koehn and Stephen A. Mihm

Provides a concise overview of the critical role that money and the nation's banking system have played in the development of the U.S. economy. Tells the story of money and banking in the United States, from the earliest settlements in the colonial era through the 20th... View Details

Keywords: History; Money; Banks and Banking; United States

February 2008 (Revised April 2009)
Case

Chronology of the Asian Financial Crisis

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael Di Tella and Renee Kim

In July 1997, Thailand became the first Asian "tiger" economy to abandon its fixed exchange rate system in response to speculative attacks on its currency. Investors started to flee Asia, and the crisis rapidly spread to other countries. Central banks spent billions of... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Currency Exchange Rate; Central Banking; Policy; Crisis Management; Asia; Thailand

March 2006 (Revised May 2010)
Case

Banco Hipotecario S.A.

By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Arthur I Segel and Alexandra de Royere

In 2003, the chairwoman and controlling shareholder of Argentina's leading residential mortgage lender are considering how to bring the bank's restructuring to a successful conclusion as the country's economy continues to suffer from the impact of the 2001-2002... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Currency; Banks and Banking; Mortgages; Crisis Management; Competition; Argentina

December 1993 (Revised March 1997)
Case

Recruiting at Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co.

By: John J. Gabarro, Herminia M. Ibarra, John P. Kotter and Andrew P. Burtis

Examines the recruiting process of Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co. (BHC), an investment banking firm known for its work with middle market companies. Specifically, presents a profile of the firm and its recruiting process and then examines that process through the firm's... View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Job Interviews; Banking Industry