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- 2024
- Working Paper
Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices: Evidence from the Electricity Sector
By: Alexander MacKay and Ignacia Mercadal
We construct a novel dataset on electricity generation, wholesale transactions, and retail
sales to assess the shift from cost-of-service regulation to deregulated, market-based prices
in the context of the U.S. electricity sector. Consistent with earlier studies, we... View Details
Keywords: Deregulation; Market Power; Markups; Prices; Electricity; Energy; Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Price; Utilities Industry
MacKay, Alexander, and Ignacia Mercadal. "Do Markets Reduce Prices? Evidence from the Electricity Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-095, February 2021. (Revised March 2024. Direct download.)
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
valuations in first financing rounds. Further econometric tests suggest that, as predicted by the theory, this effect is driven by unobservable heterogeneity, and it is more pronounced in teams that make quick decisions about founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
strengthening diversity at Salesianum, where tuition is close to $16,000 annually, were top priorities. “From its earliest days, the school’s leaders reached out to educate children of immigrants who couldn’t afford tuition,” he notes. “With a lot of kids in our area... View Details
- 13 Jan 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Forward Guidance in the Yield Curve: Short Rates versus Bond Supply
- March 2021 (Revised December 2021)
- Supplement
Ant Financial (D)
By: Feng Zhu, Krishna G. Palepu, Kerry Herman and Susie Ma
The (D) case updates the case series from the time of Ant’s planned IPO, and the Chinese government’s regulatory shifts. View Details
Keywords: Finance; Information Technology; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; China; Beijing
Zhu, Feng, Krishna G. Palepu, Kerry Herman, and Susie Ma. "Ant Financial (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-089, March 2021. (Revised December 2021.)
- Fall 2017
- Article
Strengthening and Streamlining Bank Capital Regulation
We propose three core principles that should inform the design of bank capital regulation. First, wherever possible, multiple constraints on the minimum level of equity capital should be consolidated into a single constraint. This helps to avoid a distortionary... View Details
Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, and Adi Sunderam. "Strengthening and Streamlining Bank Capital Regulation." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Fall 2017). (Internet Appendix Here.)
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
Fans of the television show Mad Men are well acquainted with the mystique of the advertising business, circa 1960s, where relationships were consummated over martinis and campaigns fashioned through the wizardry of creative director Don... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Sticky Capital Controls
- September 2009
- Article
How to Fix Wall Street: Regulation Alone Can't Right the Financial System
By: Lynn S. Paine
Keywords: Stocks; Financial Institutions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; System
Paine, Lynn S. "How to Fix Wall Street: Regulation Alone Can't Right the Financial System." HBS Alumni Bulletin (September 2009).
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital: Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing by Robert A. Finkel (MBA ’89) with David Greising (McGraw-Hill) Ten investment and management masters share the wisdom they gained while transforming their... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
financing risk-that is, the risk that later—stage investors will not fund the startup, even if the fundamentals of the firm are still sound. We show that financing risk is part of a rational equilibrium... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
the Entrepreneurial Finance course with Bill in Fall 2008, I know he is a wonderful and generous colleague, too. Bill graciously agreed to mentor me in this new role—a comforting thought and the reason why I said yes to Nitin. I have been... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
reforms seem unlikely, but we are missing a large opportunity by avoiding them. In general, I hesitate to pass judgment on our tax system as a whole. My intuition is that tax theorists have as much or more to learn from existing policies... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
estimated likelihood that they will flee and then offering incentives to a core group of customers at the top of the churn ranking. Gupta says these traditional methods are flawed. The two steps are not set up to maximize bottom-line profit of the retention View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
productivity effects of organizational practices remains a challenge for future research. Does Intellectual Property Rights Reform Spur Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, Ray Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 1996
- Article
Will Proposed UK Goodwill and Intangible Asset Account Rules Favoring UK Acquires Change US GAAP?
By: David F. Hawkins
Hawkins, David F. "Will Proposed UK Goodwill and Intangible Asset Account Rules Favoring UK Acquires Change US GAAP?" Accounting Bulletin, no. 40 (July 1996).
- Article
Invisible Monuments and the Costs of Pharmaceutical Regulation: Twenty-Five Years of Drug Lag Debate
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "Invisible Monuments and the Costs of Pharmaceutical Regulation: Twenty-Five Years of Drug Lag Debate." Pharmacy in History 45, no. 1 (2003): 3–17.
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
In the 2012 US presidential election, the Obama campaign deftly used a Facebook app to register voters and have friends message them to get out the vote. But it was 2016 presidential campaign that really... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- November 2010
- Teaching Note
Citigroup 2007: Financial Reporting and Regulatory Capital (TN)
By: Edward J. Riedl, Suraj Srinivasan and Sharon Katz
Teaching Note for 111041. View Details
- February 2022 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
BUA Group
By: John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
BUA Group must decide between investments in cement, road building, power generation, or sugar. Private businesses are important to economic development in Africa. Students must assess the competitive nature of each of these industries, the magnitude of capital... View Details
Keywords: Investing; Transportation; Strategy; Project Finance; Agribusiness; Construction; Infrastructure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria; Africa
Macomber, John D., Pippa Tubman Armerding, and Wale Lawal. "BUA Group." Harvard Business School Case 222-062, February 2022. (Revised April 2022.)