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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market

By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
Reaching-for-yield—the propensity to buy riskier assets in order to achieve higher yields—is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for... View Details
Keywords: Fixed Income; Reaching For Yield; Financial Intermediation; Insurance Companies; Insurance; Bonds; Assets; Risk Management; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Insurance Industry
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

here and Victoria’s other research here . More Info A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates By: Robin Greenwood , Samuel G. Hanson , Jeremy C. Stein & Adi Sunderam JULY 2020 The authors provide a framework for understanding how the detailed structure... View Details
  • Article

Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market

By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
Reaching for yield—the propensity to buy riskier assets in order to achieve higher yields—is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyzes this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for... View Details
Keywords: Fixed Income; Reaching For Yield; Financial Intermediation; Insurance Companies; Insurance; Assets; Bonds; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Insurance Industry
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  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

Harvard Business School faculty members, looking at the U.S. financial crisis from a variety of disciplines, urged caution and prudent analysis in a recent panel discussion. The discussion titled "Turmoil on the Street: Fathoming the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity

Keywords: by Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina & Josh Lerner
  • Web

People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

economics at Columbia Business School. Professor Di Maggio’s current research focuses on financial intermediation with a particular focus on how new technologies have disrupted View Details
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Hanson , Jeremy C. Stein & Adi Sunderam JULY 2020 The authors provide a framework for understanding how the detailed structure of financial intermediation impacts foreign exchange rates. They develop a model... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan & Selin Sayek
  • Article

The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times

By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani and Zhaogang Song
This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relations shape their trading behavior in the corporate bond market. Dealers charge lower spreads to dealers with whom they have the strongest ties and more so during periods of market turmoil. Systemically important dealers... View Details
Keywords: OTC Markets; Network; Corporate Bonds; Crisis; Intermediation Chains; Leaning Against The Wind; Networks; Bonds; Behavior; Financial Crisis
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  • May 2011
  • Article

Consequences and Institutional Determinants of Unregulated Corporate Financial Statements: Evidence from Embedded Value Reporting

By: George Serafeim
I analyze Embedded Value (EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the present... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Reporting; Cash Flow; Contracts; Equity; Profit; Value; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Earnings
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How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages (with Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek)

By: Laura Alfaro
The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the existence of positive productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a novel mechanism, which emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling... View Details

    Emily Williams

    Emily Williams is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit, teaching the Finance II course to MBA students. Professor Williams’ research focuses on financial intermediation, traditional intermediation and payments, the use of technology... View Details

      Jonathan L. Wallen

      Jonathan Wallen is an Assistant Professor of Finance in the Finance Unit and teaches Finance 1 to MBA students.

      Professor Wallen’s research centers on financial intermediation and its intersection with asset pricing, currency markets,... View Details

      • Working Paper Summaries

      A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates

      Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, and Adi Sunderam
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Elusive Safety: The New Geography of Capital Flows and Risk

      By: Laura Alfaro, Ester Faia, Ruth Judson and Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr
      A confidential dataset with industry-level disaggregation of U.S. cross-border claims and liabilities, shows U.S. securities to be increasingly intermediated by tax-haven-financial-centers (THFC) and less regulated funds. These securities are risky, in... View Details
      Keywords: Tax Havens; Financial Centers; Geography Of Flows; Profit Shifting; Tax Avoidance; Risk; Safe Assets; Hetergeneous Firms; Endogenous Entry; Endogenous Monitoring; Regulatory Arbitrage; Assets; Safety; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital; Global Range
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      • 12 May 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Elusive Safety: The New Geography of Capital Flows and Risk

      Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Ester Faia, Ruth Judson, and Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr

        David S. Scharfstein

        David Scharfstein is the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School. He has written on a wide range of topics in finance, including risk management, financial distress, corporate investment, capital structure, and venture... View Details

        Keywords: banking

          Olivia S. Kim

          Olivia Kim is an assistant professor of business administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the Entrepreneurial Management course in the MBA required curriculum.

          Professor Kim's research examines how firms... View Details

          • April 2024
          • Article

          Demand-and-Supply Imbalance Risk and Long-Term Swap Spreads

          By: Samuel G. Hanson, Aytek Malkhozov and Gyuri Venter
          We develop and test a model in which swap spreads are determined by end users' demand for and constrained intermediaries’ supply of long-term interest rate swaps. Swap spreads reflect compensation both for using scarce intermediary capital and for bearing convergence... View Details
          Keywords: Swap Spreads; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Interest Rates; Risk and Uncertainty; Volatility
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          • 10 Jun 2002
          • Research & Ideas

          How to Look at Globalization Now

          adding value by operating across borders is concerned; others can be identified as well. Q: Globalists and global skeptics have had plenty to argue about in recent years: as you write in the same paper, globalists gained confidence from the fall of the Berlin Wall, but... View Details
          Keywords: by Martha Lagace