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- 2010
- Working Paper
Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance
By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the global financial crisis, with particular emphasis on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Local Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Production; Performance Evaluation; Networks
Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen. "Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-110, June 2010.
- 12 Nov 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization, and Microfinance Institutions
- 05 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy
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Faculty & Research
billion in deposits, largely comprising the venture capital those startups had raised. On February 28, 2023, Moody’s warned SVB about a potential credit rating downgrade, reflecting concerns over "funding, liquidity, and profitability"... View Details
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
Working PapersExplaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints Authors:Silvia Ardagna and Annamaria Lusardi Abstract We use a micro dataset that collects... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
from Pension and Insurance companies. Regulatory changes are used to provide collaborating evidence that the curvature of the yield curve is shaped through this demand channel. Related Themes: Credit Markets, Size & Growth of the... View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
rubber markets during the boom years of 1870-1910 shows that the government generated 1.3% of GDP through an export tax on rubber but that it could have generated 4.7% in total, had the government set the tariff at the optimal level. National, regional, and local View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Finance - Faculty & Research
reducing the welfare-enhancing effects of capital controls compared with the frictionless Ramsey benchmark. We conclude with a discussion of the structural interpretations of such costs, which calls for a richer set of policy constraints... View Details
- Web
Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
Exogenous increases in the cost of credit also reduce coverage demand. These results raise the concern that financial constraints reduce willingness to pay for insurance even below the actuarially fair price... View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
HBS Lingo 101
nonprofits, and government organizations—complete with the constraints and incomplete information found in real business issues—and places the student in the role of the decision maker. Students will read 500 cases during their two years... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Research Research Invisible Primes: Fintech Lending with Alternative Data By: Marco Di Maggio , Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara & Don Carmichael MAR 2022 Will the use of alternative data to assess borrowers’ creditworthiness result in broader View Details
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
demonstrates that firms who maintain or accelerate customer-centric philosophies consistently outperform firms that do not.” All in all, this set of circumstances and stricter budget constraints make customers less able and less willing... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
exceeding that percentage of actual revenue. Other expenses—insurance, credit card processing, marketing, utilities, repairs—mount up. Assuming adequate working capital upon opening, a restaurant’s cash from daily sales is used to pay for... View Details
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
before 1990. Heating oil furnaces are increasingly being seen as cost prohibitive as the ongoing cost of heating oil has doubled over last two years due to supply constraints from the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the pandemic. Heating oil... View Details
- 08 Nov 2013
- HBS Seminar
Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
process model for theory and practice. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2288795 Do Savings Constraints Lead to Indebtedness? Experimental Evidence from Access to Formal Savings Accounts in Chile By: Kast, Felipe, and Dina... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Finance for "Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis" (February 2018) with Bo Becker. Elisabeth Kempf : Winner of the 2018 Best Paper Award at the Financial Research Association Annual Conference for “Partisan Professionals: Evidence from View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. Professor Karim Lakhani discusses how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning... View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
question in a new paper, titled Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints (forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics). “Firms... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
institutions. These institutions represent powerful constraints on the ability of the government to fund reforms, of firms to write contracts, and of citizens to enforce their basic rights. Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage View Details