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- June 2007
- Article
Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Insurers and Reinsurers
By: K. A. Froot
Keywords: Risk Management; Capital Budgeting; Cost of Capital; Policy; Insurance; Asset Pricing; Insurance Industry
Froot, K. A. "Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Insurers and Reinsurers." Journal of Risk and Insurance 74, no. 2 (June 2007): 273–299. (Winner of Robert C. Witt Award Given annually for the best feature article in the Journal of Risk and Insurance presented by American Risk and Insurance Association. Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 10184, Harvard Business School Working Paper no. 04-035, December 2003.)
- Article
Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Bank Regulation, Capital Structure and the Low Risk Anomaly
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
Traditional capital structure theory predicts that reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost of equity but does not change the weighted average cost of capital, and thus the rates for borrowers. We confirm that the equity of better-capitalized banks has lower... View Details
Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Bank Regulation, Capital Structure and the Low Risk Anomaly." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 105, no. 5 (May 2015): 315–320.
- June 2009
- Supplement
Midland Energy Resources, Inc.: Cost of Capital, Instructors Spreadsheet (Brief Case)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Joel L. Heilprin
- 2002
- Working Paper
Legal Risk as a Determinant of Syndicate Structure in the Project Finance Loan Market
By: Benjamin C. Esty and William L. Megginson
- 19 Nov 2012
- Conference Presentation
Accounting and Risk Management, and Interactive Control Selection: Which, When and Why?
By: Anette Mikes
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 07 May 2015
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
The Low Risk Anomaly: Implications for Investment, Asset Allocation, and Corporate Finance
One of the basic principles of finance is that, in competitive and efficient markets, investors earn higher average returns only by taking greater risks. Asset classes follow this pattern: Stocks have returned more than bonds, and bonds have returned more than cash.... View Details
- February 2013 (Revised January 2015)
- Supplement
Grantham, Mayo, and Van Otterloo, 2012: Estimating the Equity Risk Premium (CW)
- 28 Sep 2012
- Conference Presentation
Accounting and Risk Management, and Interactive Control Selection: Which, When and Why?
By: Anette Mikes
- 2006
- Working Paper
A New Framework for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks of An Economy
By: Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
Gray, Dale F., Robert C. Merton, and Zvi Bodie. "A New Framework for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks of An Economy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-026, October 2006. (Also NBER Working Paper Series, No. 12637.)
- August 2020
- Article
Leverage and the Beta Anomaly
By: Malcolm Baker, Mathias F. Hoeyer and Jeffrey Wurgler
The well-known weak empirical relationship between beta risk and the cost of equity—the beta anomaly—generates a simple tradeoff theory: As firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal... View Details
Baker, Malcolm, Mathias F. Hoeyer, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Leverage and the Beta Anomaly." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 55, no. 5 (August 2020): 1491–1514.
- June 2009
- Teaching Note
Midland Energy Resources, Inc.: Cost of Capital (Brief Case)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Joel L. Heilprin
Teaching Note for 4129 View Details
- 2015
- Article
A Machine Learning Framework to Identify Students at Risk of Adverse Academic Outcomes
By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Everaldo Aguiar, Carl Shan, David Miller, Nasir Bhanpuri, Rayid Ghani and Kecia Addison
Lakkaraju, Himabindu, Everaldo Aguiar, Carl Shan, David Miller, Nasir Bhanpuri, Rayid Ghani, and Kecia Addison. "A Machine Learning Framework to Identify Students at Risk of Adverse Academic Outcomes." Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 21st (2015).
- Other Article
Accepting Risk and Rejecting the Status Quo: Fostering an Innovative Higher Ed Culture
By: David J. Collis
Corporations across the globe have been focused on the question of innovation for decades and longer. The desire to become leaner, better, and more efficient has driven innovative leaders for years. In higher education, however, this innovative mindset is a relatively... View Details
Collis, David J. "Accepting Risk and Rejecting the Status Quo: Fostering an Innovative Higher Ed Culture." The EvoLLLution (August 3, 2016).
- 2001
- Government Testimony
Terrorist Risk Insurance: Hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
By: Kenneth A. Froot
Froot, Kenneth A. "Terrorist Risk Insurance: Hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs." Government Testimony, U.S. Senate, October 2001. (Congressional Record, October 24, 2001, 81-86.)
- February 1998 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Burma Pipeline, The
By: Debora L. Spar and Lane LaMure
In 1996, Unocal Corp. joined forces with the French Total company to construct an ambitious natural gas pipeline from the Andaman Sea across the southern tip of Burma and into Thailand. At an estimated cost of $1.2 billion, the pipeline was designed to bring sorely... View Details
Keywords: Political Risk; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Foreign Direct Investment; Energy Industry; Asia
Spar, Debora L., and Lane LaMure. "Burma Pipeline, The." Harvard Business School Case 798-078, February 1998. (Revised March 2000.)