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  • February 2009
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Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt

By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Motivation and Incentives; Decisions; Emerging Markets; Balance and Stability; Earnings Management; Policy; Interest Rates; International Finance; Cost
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Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt." Journal of International Economics 77, no. 1 (February 2009): 23–36. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-010, 2006 and NBER Working Paper No. 13216.)
  • 22 Apr 2020
  • Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

effects of climate change—as well as many, varied government policies trying to mitigate its effects—are also inspiring technological innovations that will give rise to new products, services, and business models in the coming years. How can investors effectively price... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 2010
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Crashes and Collateralized Lending

By: Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
This paper develops a parsimonious static model for characterizing financing terms in collateralized lending markets. We characterize the systematic risk exposures for a variety of securities and develop a simple indifference-pricing framework to value the systematic... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Cost of Capital; Credit; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Investment; Framework; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry
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Jurek, Jakub W., and Erik Stafford. "Crashes and Collateralized Lending." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-025, September 2010.

    Suraj Srinivasan

    Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; financial services
    • January 2011 (Revised June 2011)
    • Supplement

    Fixed Income Arbitrage in a Financial Crisis (C): TED Spread and Swap Spread in November 2008

    Investment manager Albert Mills confronts an apparent arbitrage opportunity during the global financial crisis of 2008 when he notices an unusually low-- and briefly negative-- thirty-year U.S. dollar fixed-floating swap spread. Mills must decide if there is an... View Details
    Keywords: Bonds; Financial Management; Investment Return; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    Taliaferro, Ryan D., and Stephen Blyth. "Fixed Income Arbitrage in a Financial Crisis (C): TED Spread and Swap Spread in November 2008." Harvard Business School Supplement 211-051, January 2011. (Revised June 2011.)
    • April 2009 (Revised June 2010)
    • Case

    U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Policy Reactions (B)

    By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim
    In March 2009, the U.S. economy was in a severe recession not seen since the Great Depression after the subprime mortgage crisis had spiraled out of control. The situation had dramatically changed in one year since the Federal Reserve Board had helped to bailout... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Central Banking; Mortgages; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; United States
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    Alfaro, Laura, and Renee Kim. "U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Policy Reactions (B)." Harvard Business School Case 709-045, April 2009. (Revised June 2010.)
    • December 2022
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    Does Industry Employment of Active Regulators Weaken Oversight?

    By: Jonas Heese
    I study whether industry employment of active regulators weakens oversight. To examine this question, I exploit that the Financial Reporting Enforcement Panel (FREP), the German capital-market regulator responsible for enforcing public firms’ compliance with accounting... View Details
    Keywords: Conflict-of-interest Policies; Directorships; Enforcement Actions; Industry Employment; Self-regulatory Organizations; Governance Compliance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Conflict of Interests
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    Heese, Jonas. "Does Industry Employment of Active Regulators Weaken Oversight?" Management Science 68, no. 12 (December 2022): 9198–9218.
    • January–February 2021
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    Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance

    By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Abbott, Michael R. Marino and Metin Aksoy
    By aligning executives’ financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard to get pay packages right. In this article four experts break down the key elements of compensation and explain how to... View Details
    Keywords: Executive Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Performance
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    Groysberg, Boris, Sarah Abbott, Michael R. Marino, and Metin Aksoy. "Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 1 (January–February 2021): 102–111.
    • 09 Mar 2012
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    Causes and Consequences of Firm Disclosures of Anticorruption Efforts

    Keywords: by Paul Healy & George Serafeim
    • June 2023
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    Verve Therapeutics: Taking DNA Editing to Heart

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
    Verve Therapeutics, a public biotech company based in Boston, created a novel approach to addressing cardiovascular disease (CVD) - a leading cause of deaths globally. The company's approach was a single shot treatment to permanently lower cholesterol, thus reducing... View Details
    Keywords: AI; Genetic Engineering; Medicine; Health Care and Treatment; Genetics; Innovation Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Medical Specialties; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Biotechnology Industry
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    Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "Verve Therapeutics: Taking DNA Editing to Heart." Harvard Business School Case 823-113, June 2023.
    • 07 Aug 2012
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    Financial vs. Strategic Buyers

    Keywords: by Marc Martos-Vila, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf & Jarrad Harford
    • March 2005 (Revised July 2007)
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    Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (A)

    By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
    In 1991, Chile adopted a framework of capital controls focused on reducing the massive flows of foreign investment coming into the country as international interest rates remained low. Capital inflows threatened the Central Bank's ability to manage the exchange rate... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Capital; Governance Controls; Business and Government Relations; Chile
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    Alfaro, Laura, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Ingrid Vogel. "Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (A)." Harvard Business School Case 705-031, March 2005. (Revised July 2007.)
    • 2011
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    Fractionalization and the Municipal Bond Market

    We study the impact of ethnic and religious fractionalization on the U.S. municipal debt market and find that issuers from more ethnically and religiously fractionalized counties pay higher yields on their municipal debt. A two standard deviation increase in religious... View Details
    Keywords: Ethnicity Characteristics; Bonds; Financial Markets; Investment Return; Geographic Location; City; Religion; United States
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    Bergstresser, Daniel, Randolph Cohen, and Siddharth Shenai. "Fractionalization and the Municipal Bond Market." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-128, June 2011.
    • June 1996 (Revised July 1997)
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    Hostile Bid for Red October, The

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Alan Bigman
    Manatep Bank, a Russian investment bank, has just announced the country's first hostile tender offer for Red October, a confectionery company located in Moscow. As the chief financial officer of the target company, Yuri Yegorov must decide how to respond, how much his... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Markets; Cash; Governance Controls; Financial Condition; Investment Banking; Financial Markets; Trade; Valuation; Financial Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Moscow
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    Esty, Benjamin C., and Alan Bigman. "Hostile Bid for Red October, The." Harvard Business School Case 296-084, June 1996. (Revised July 1997.)
    • March 31, 2022
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    Two Approaches to Capping Health Care Prices

    By: Michael E. Chernew, Maximilian J. Pany and Leemore S. Dafny
    High health care prices for the privately-insured contribute to high premiums, which put downward pressure on wages, and induce employers to reduce benefit generosity and charge employees more for coverage. As the average annual premium for family coverage currently... View Details
    Keywords: Price Caps; Health Care and Treatment; Price
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    Chernew, Michael E., Maximilian J. Pany, and Leemore S. Dafny. "Two Approaches to Capping Health Care Prices." Health Affairs Forefront (March 31, 2022).
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    Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks: Cross Registration 2024 Fall

    By: John D. Macomber

    HARVARD | BUSINESS | SCHOOL

    CITIES, STRUCTURES, AND CLIMATE SHOCKS

    Senior Lecturer John D. Macomber

    HBS 1487

    Fall, 2024

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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Insufficiently Justified Disparate Impact: A New Criterion for Subgroup Fairness

    By: Neil Menghani, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
    In this paper, we develop a new criterion, "insufficiently justified disparate impact" (IJDI), for assessing whether recommendations (binarized predictions) made by an algorithmic decision support tool are fair. Our novel, utility-based IJDI criterion evaluates false... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Prejudice and Bias
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    Menghani, Neil, Edward McFowland III, and Daniel B. Neill. "Insufficiently Justified Disparate Impact: A New Criterion for Subgroup Fairness." Working Paper, June 2023.
    • 03 Oct 2006
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    Cartels and Competition: Neither Markets nor Hierarchies

    Keywords: by Jeffrey Fear
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    Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal? (with Fabio Kanczuk)

    By: Laura Alfaro
    We model and calibrate the arguments in favor and against short-term and long-term debt. These arguments broadly include: maturity-term premium, tax smoothing, rolling over risk and the cost from defaulting. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion,... View Details
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    Choice Amnesia: Motivated Forgetting of Difficult Choices

    Imagine having to choose between your two favorite flavors of ice cream, chocolate and mint chip. Previous work suggests that whichever option you pick (say, chocolate) will become even more appealing after your decision, and the rejected option (mint chip) will get... View Details
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