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Running a Program/Submitting a Job - Research Computing Services

500 MB RAM for 6 hours; 1 core (CPU) on 1 node is assumed as these parameters ( -n 1 ) were left out. When the interactive session starts, you will notice that you are no longer on a login node, but rather one of the compute nodes... View Details

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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

MATLAB Sadly, MATLAB does not have a command common to all platforms that will give memory usage. On Windows, one can use the memory() function: >> A = magic(1000); B = phantom(500); C = peaks(250); in_use = memory() Maximum possible array: 6397 View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

worldwide, their effectiveness and the channels through which they affect the real economy have been at the center of a policy and academic debate. The authors find that central bank QE1 MBS purchases substantially increased refinancing... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Start Me Up

In April, HBS students and alumni looking for capital ran their good ideas through the gauntlet. As part of the New Venture Competition, the School's annual entrepreneurship challenge, 25 finalists— 8 student teams and 17 alumni teams—competed for $100,000 in start-up... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; infographic

21 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 21

Convexity By: Hanson, Samuel Gregory Abstract—Most home mortgages in the U.S. are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) falls due to heightened refinancing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?

to be financially impaired. This will limit their ability to guarantee new MBS issues even if the government guarantee protects old MBS issues. So, in a crisis the government may have to inject capital into... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

purchasing Treasuries did not have such differential effects. We find that the Fed's purchase of MBS (rather than exclusively Treasuries) during QE1 resulted in an additional $600 billion of refinancing, substantially reduced interest... View Details

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