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- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
the international shipments of all U.S. publicly traded firms, we show that firms are significantly more likely to trade with countries that have a large resident population near their firm headquarters. We use the formation of World War II Japanese Internment Camps to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12
currency bond markets develop, a "pseudo-flexible regime," whereby a country accumulates reserves in conjunction with debt, to be the best policy alternative under real external shocks for emerging nations. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
low and unstable income, but also by heavy debt burdens. We find that the inability to save contributes to this indebtedness. Access to free savings accounts substantially decreases participants' propensity to use short-term credit. In addition, participants who... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7
exhibit quantitatively similar degrees of time variation. We estimate a systematic liquidity premium in U.S. inflation-indexed yields over nominal yields, which declined from 100 bps in 1999 to 30 bps in 2005 and spiked to over 150 bps during the crisis 2008-2009. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
where I sit as an economist, it's still all about the economy and the long-term impact of the problems laid bare by the Great Recession. During the financial crisis, the world came to the apparently shocking realization that debt... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016
predict that the board will design incentive contracts that filter out common shocks in performance to motivate costly effort from the CEO—a process that entails the judicious selection of benchmarks for relative performance evaluation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
assumptions that countries can accumulate reserves and borrow internationally using their own currency. As opposed to traditional sovereign-debt models, asset-valuation effects occasioned by currency fluctuations act to absorb global View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
Can it be corrected, and does it matter if it can't? Car Trouble Every novice driver is instructed to beware of "blind spots" in which overtaking cars advance unseen. It's a lesson American carmakers apparently forgot. "For the six decades preceding the... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18
electoral participation. Negative shocks to income and rates of employment are also associated with increases in closure activity within counties over time. We interpret these results as consistent with involuntary consumer account... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
integrated-markets models in which the rationally determined price of risk fluctuates in a countercyclical fashion. The results can be partially explained by models in which shocks to intermediary capital or agency problems drive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises because firms behave as macro liquidity providers, absorbing the large supply shocks associated with changes in the maturity structure of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11
and the recent allegations against the Firm's former Managing Director, Rajat Gupta. Three months earlier Senior Partner, Anil Kumar, plead guilty to providing confidential information about McKinsey clients he served to Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20
evidence. In our model, firms over-extrapolate exogenous demand shocks and partially neglect the endogenous investment responses of their competitors. Formal estimation of the model confirms that both types of expectational errors are... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
rationale for acquiring Whole Foods. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/619029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-041 Masayoshi Son and the Vision Fund In October 2016, SoftBank Group Corp., the Japanese conglomerate giant caused a significant... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
difficulty of maintaining these over time, and as circumstances changed. Salvaj: The mistakes provided opportunities for these pioneers to display their confidence and to project self-assurance. They have been able to withstand shocks and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
economy stagnated for a decade if none of the shocks that arguably hit the economy seemed to have persisted for much more than three years or so? In this paper I show that the endogenous development and adoption of technologies can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
looked increasingly bleak in 2016. Then on August 1, 2016 Uber CEO Travis Kalanick shocked the global ridesharing industry by selling the company’s China operations to arch rival Didi Chuxing. Given the competition from domestic rivals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015
currency), the asset valuation effects occasioned by currency depreciation (or appreciation) act to absorb global shocks and render consumption smoother. In this setting, countries do not accumulate high levels of reserves to be depleted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015
sellers creates fragility-higher concentration results in more volatile risk premiums. I also employ a number of complementary approaches to address identification, such as using the 2011 Japanese tsunami as an exogenous shock to the risk... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
in the month of July. A sudden drop in capital market prices for an asset class can be caused by news affecting fundamental values or by a widespread liquidity shock. The implication of a shock to fundamental value is that the price drop... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace