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  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

new fintech entrepreneurs, and banks—small and large—vying for a position. Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream grapples with the broad significance of small business to the economy, the historical role of credit markets, the dynamics of innovation cycles,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Jun 2009
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“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

so distorted the housing market that they made a financial breakdown inevitable, the minority response argues. As a result, Washington, not Wall Street, is the villain in the bursting of the subprime mortgage bubble. The minority response also faults the Federal... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

debt. We propose that monetary policy credibility explains the currency composition of sovereign debt and nominal bond risks in the presence of risk-averse investors. In our model, low credibility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

(BRFSS) data on 2.3 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles, with implications for growth View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

monetary value.Photo: iStockPhoto However, not all forms of personal information exploitation are beneficial to consumers. Firms sometimes exploit personal information to better estimate customers' willingness to pay and to engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

insight from behavioral economists and organizational consultants is also included. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52264 December 2016 Journal of Business and Policy Research Corporate Sponsorship in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1

look large and compelling. But it can have significant downsides. Leaders who prefer to zoom in tend to create policies and systems that depend too much on politics and favors. They can focus too closely on personal status and on turf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

immigrants made a conspicuous impact. Part I demonstrates the dominant role of immigrants in forming public financial policies from 1775 to 1817. Part II surveys 12 merchant and investment banking firms founded during the nineteenth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

significantly positive; on the other hand, the marginal effects of taxation for growth for a state at the 90th percentile of corruption are much lower across the board. We make progress towards causality through Granger-style tests and by considering periphery counties... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

Silverthorne: You write that Indonesia's 1980 nationalization of ITT's thirteen-year-old Indostat telecom business "marked the end of an era." What changed? Louis Wells: In the 1980s, a new attitude toward foreign investment swept the developing world. Old View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15

and tight monetary policy. To illustrate our point, in the last half of 2007, 36% of all debt issues were bank loans. However, relative loan issuance fell to 8% by the first half of 2009, the lowest level in the period from 1990 to 2009.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

categories were set by a strict rotation scheme, thereby mitigating the potentially confounding effect that they targeted only "hot" technology sectors. Prizes encouraged competition and medals were more important than monetary... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a small monetary margin on each pack sold, a large margin, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

the minority response argues. As a result, Washington, not Wall Street, is the villain in the bursting of the subprime mortgage bubble. The minority response also faults the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

complex. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/55314 August 2013 Journal of Monetary Economics Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

is essential to having a good social order. Should judges deserve an infinite amount, too? The notion that somehow the logic of a purely monetary conception of value could be transferred to business struck me as odd, especially in a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

natural catastrophes. Some of it over the past few years, for obvious reasons, has been monetary inflation. Some of it has, in fact, been more severe weather. But some of it has been this migration. If you look just at the US, migration... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715432-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-019 A Currency We Can Call Our Own: Populism, Banking Crises, and Exchange Rate Crises in Argentina, 1946-2002 The case describes Argentina's struggle to establish a credible View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

Harvard Gazette How invasion may hit U.S., global economies [Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard] Kenneth Rogoff sees possible fallout in stock, energy markets, worsening of inflation, increase... View Details