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  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

Journal of Econometrics Scenario Generation for Long Run Interest Rate Risk Assessment By: Engle, Robert F., Guillaume Roussellet, and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—We propose a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The Rise of Alternatives

By: Juliane Begenau, Pauline Liang and Emil Siriwardane
Since the 2000s, U.S. public pensions have shifted their risky investments towards alternative assets like private equity and hedge funds, some more aggressively than others. We explore several explanations for these cross-sectional trends, focusing on those implied by... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment Return; Risk and Uncertainty
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Faculty - Private Capital Project

management, financial distress, capital allocation, and venture capital. His current research focuses on financial intermediation and financial regulation, including research on housing finance, financial system risk, bank lending and funding, and the growth of the... View Details
  • October 2020 (Revised December 2020)
  • Case

Investing at Pivotal Ventures

By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Emily R. McComb and Eren Kuzucu
Launched in 2015 by Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Pivotal Ventures is an investment and incubation company. The company aims to support and promote transformational ideas, people and organizations, and advance social progress for women... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Management; Mission and Purpose; Venture Capital
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

credit-market booms. See Robin’s other research here , Sam’s other research here , Andrei’s other research here , and Jakob’s other research here . More Info Segmented Arbitrage By: Adi Sunderam , Emil View Details
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

Frances and Henry. This fellowship will support deserving MBA students. Casper (MBA 1995) Family Fellowship This fellowship was generously established by Marc N. Casper (MBA 1995) to celebrate his 25th... View Details
  • April 2018 (Revised March 2019)
  • Case

Tesla-SolarCity

By: E. Scott Mayfield and Emil N. Siriwardane
On June 21, 2016, Tesla Motors, Inc. announced its offer to acquire SolarCity, bringing CEO Elon Musk one step closer to completing his goal of moving the world from a hydrocarbon-based economy to a solar-electric one. Markets and analysts were mixed in their reaction... View Details
Keywords: Tesla; SolarCity; Solar Power; Mergers and Acquisitions; Renewable Energy; Goals and Objectives; Finance
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Fire Sales of Safe Assets

By: Gabor Pinter, Emil Siriwardane and Danny Walker
We use trade-level data to study price pressure effects in the UK gilt market from September to October 2022. During this period, forced sales by liability-driven investment funds (LDIs) led to price discounts on the order of 10%, accounting for roughly half the total... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Capital Markets; United Kingdom
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  • August 2020
  • Article

Financial Market Risk Perceptions and the Macroeconomy

By: Carolin E. Pflueger, Emil Siriwardane and Adi Sunderam
We propose a novel measure of risk perceptions: the price of volatile stocks (PVS), defined as the book-to-market ratio of low-volatility stocks minus the book-to-market ratio of high-volatility stocks. PVS is high when perceived risk directly measured from surveys and... View Details
Keywords: Risk-centric Business Cycles; Cross-section Of Equities; Real Risk-free Rate; Real Investment; Financial Markets; Risk and Uncertainty; Perception; Investment
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Greenhill Award in 1992, 1994, 2005, and 2011. Josh Lerner : Named one of the ten most influential academics in the institutional investing world by Asset International's Chief Investment Officer Magazine , 2013. View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Info Segmented Arbitrage By: Adi Sunderam , Emil Siriwardane & Jonathan Wallen NOV 2021 Financial intermediaries play a key role in determining asset prices. The authors use arbitrage activity in equity,... View Details
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

An Empirical Guide to Investor-Level Private Equity Data from Preqin

By: Juliane Begenau, Claudia Robles-Garcia, Emil Siriwardane and Lulu Wang
This note provides guidance on the use of investor-level private equity data from Preqin for empirical research. Preqin primarily sources its cash flow data through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with U.S. public pensions. Our focus is on the components of... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity Returns; Prequin Data; Private Equity; Analytics and Data Science; Investment Return
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  • October 2019
  • Article

Limited Investment Capital and Credit Spreads

By: Emil N. Siriwardane
Using proprietary credit default swap (CDS) data, I investigate how capital shocks at protection sellers impact pricing in the CDS market. Seller capital shocks—measured as CDS portfolio margin payments—account for 12% of the time-series variation in weekly spread... View Details
Keywords: Credit Risk; Derivatives; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Capital Markets; Credit; Financial Institutions
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  • Awards

AQR Top Finance Graduate Award

By: Emil N. Siriwardane
Winner of the 2015 AQR Top Finance Graduate Award at Copenhagen Business School. View Details
  • February 2023
  • Article

OTC Intermediaries

By: Andrea L. Eisfeldt, Bernard Herskovic, Sriram Rajan and Emil Siriwardane
We study the effect of dealer exit on prices and quantities in a model of an over-the-counter (OTC) market featuring a core-periphery network with bilateral trading costs. The model is calibrated using regulatory data on the entire U.S. credit default swap (CDS) market... View Details
Keywords: OTC Markets; Intermediaries; Dealers; Credit Default Swaps; Risk Sharing; Financial Markets; Networks; Price; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • July 2020
  • Case

Mortgage Backed Securities and the Covid-19 Pandemic

By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Luis M. Viceira and Dean Xu
In April 2020, global financial markets were still reeling as the COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly across the world. Global equity markets had initially fallen by 30% in response to the pandemic, and high-yield credit markets had dropped by nearly 20%. In contrast,... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Mortgage-backed Securities; Health Pandemics; Financial Markets; Assets; Resource Allocation; Financial Instruments; Decision Making
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  • 2018
  • Working Paper

OTC Intermediaries

By: Andrea L. Eisfeldt, Bernard Herskovic, Sriram Rajan and Emil Siriwardane
Over-the-counter (OTC) markets for financial assets are dominated by a relatively small number of core intermediaries and a large number of peripheral customers. In this paper, we develop a model of trade in a core-periphery network and estimate its key structural... View Details
Keywords: OTC Markets; Intermediaries; Dealers; Credit Default Swaps; Risk Sharing; Networks; Price; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

typically inadvertent nature of these incidences. The resulting higher settlement rate prevents additional legal action and significantly reduces social costs. Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of Corporate Credit Risk—Online Appendix By: Siriwardane, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBS - The year in Review

Christine Exley Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Emil Siriwardane Finance Staff Shine Through The faculty and leadership have noted over the years that the staff members are the fuel that propels the... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51879 Structural GARCH: The Volatility-Leverage Connection By: Engle, Robert F., and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—During the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne