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  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

bonds varies predictably over time. We also find strong evidence that the spread between the nominal and the real bond risk premium, or the breakeven inflation risk premium, also varies over time. We argue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

inflation-indexed bond markets in the U.S. and the U.K. It documents a massive decline in long-term real interest rates from the 1990s until 2008, followed by a sudden spike in these rates during the financial crisis of 2008. Breakeven... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 22

Management. Taylor and Francis, 2011 Abstract Routine and persistent acts of dishonesty prevail in everyday life, yet most people resist shining a critical moral light on their own behavior, thereby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

on compensation of talented people, then you stop this mechanism, and you run the risk of having your company be less profitable," Vallée says. "You're putting a friction on a competitive market that's doing what it's meant to do." He... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 02 Jul 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

ordinary citizens' income was cut by a third, vulnerable groups suffered. But more important, fifteen years later, the economy continues to decay, inflation is rampant, and many people continue to suffer.... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking
  • 18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18

inflation with a devalued currency, despite massive capital inflows and a huge current account deficit. At home, the government has carefully managed between Islamicization, democracy, View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 10 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

likely contributed to the great recession by inflating the housing and credit bubbles in 2005-2007. But when it comes to sovereign risk, they are getting it right. Across the world, there are many serious... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

  Working PapersHappiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

http://www.people.hbs.edu/amusacchio/Leviathan/toc.htm 2006 pub Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals By: Swift, S. A., D. Moore, Z. Sharek, and F. Gino... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Apr 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

accompanied by lower inflation and interest rates—that justify deficit spending to produce both economic growth and social programs designed to improve our quality of life... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

proxy for inflation and economic uncertainty. A decomposition of bond betas into a real cash flow risk component and a discount rate risk component shows that yield spreads... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

decomposes excess return predictability in U.S. and U.K. inflation-indexed and nominal government bonds. We find that nominal bonds reflect time-varying inflation View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • March 2005 (Revised June 2005)
  • Case

Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (B)

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Financial Crisis; Foreign Direct Investment; Currency Exchange Rate; Inflation and Deflation; Demand and Consumers; Interest Rates; Capital; System; Central Banking; Chile
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  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

of time, the safe strategy is to invest in long-term coupon bonds (or annuities), not cash. There is catch with this, though. Standard annuities and Treasury bonds pay fixed coupons, and View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

Abstract—People demonstrate an impressive ability to self-deceive, distorting misbehavior to reflect positively on themselves—for example, by cheating on a test and believing that their inflated performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Last Look

rowdy. Reports Golding, “This annual event took place in the spring, usually early May, and involved a transit of the waters between the Weeks and Larz Anderson bridges (and back) in craft that were entirely... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s Author:Diego A. Comin Publication:In Japan's Bubble, Deflation and Long-term Stagnation, edited by Koichi Hamada, Anil Kashyap, and Davis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

some cases down to the source code level. Our study thus extends the concept of IP modularity to comprise the notion of hierarchy levels.   Working PapersInflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

Publications August 2013 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment By: Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera, and Scott Lee Abstract—Organizations often use non-monetary awards to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

An Economy Undermined

fact, stocks on average did not rise at all in the 1970s. Productivity grew more slowly in the ensuing thirty years than it had for any prolonged period since the 1800s. My class’s first decade out from HBS was marked by economic and... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Madrick; Finance