Inflation - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

issuers and rating agencies, to select a rating agency for the bond issuer and negotiate a rating fee. This would eliminate the two worst abuses: the issuer shopping for a higher rating, and the issuer paying inflated fees to get a higher... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

increased correlations of discount rate shocks resulting from financial globalization as the main driver of the upward shift in stock return correlations. We also identify increased correlations of inflation shocks as an equally important... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

Final-Offer Arbitration Challenge Gives Negotiators a Valuable New Tool By: Bazerman, Max H., and Daniel Kahneman Abstract—In legal disputes, contested insurance claims, and similarly adversarial negotiations, one party is likely to open with an View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

correlated with the level of income, the welfare state and (weakly) with life expectancy; they are negatively correlated with the average number of hours worked, environmental degradation (measured by SOx emissions), crime, openness to trade, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

consumer goods company, first entered China, it encountered significant challenges. RB's strategy relied on selling high-margin products supported by cost-effective advertising and distribution, but the highly competitive Chinese market made it hard to sustain high... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

inflation was still far below the 2% goal, growth had turned negative, and Abe faced the highest debt among the OECD. Together with demographic, energy, and security problems, Abe had his hands full, while President Trump roiled the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52405 forthcoming Critical Finance Review Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds By: Campbell, John Y., Adi Sunderam, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract—The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

helps them hedge real interest risk and inflation risk, or because it helps them reduce the volatility of their portfolio of stocks and bonds because its return is negatively correlated with the returns on those assets. This article... View Details

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