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Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers
This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk-assessment and lending decisions. We first show that, while high-powered incentives lead to greater screening effort and more... View Details
- August 1997
- Case
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 1997, The
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven, Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Uyterhoeven, Hugo, Michael Y. Yoshino, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 1997, The." Harvard Business School Case 398-032, August 1997.
- March 1998 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Xedia and Silicon Valley Bank (B-2): The Company's Perspective
By: Paul A. Gompers and Jon Biotti
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Banking Industry
Gompers, Paul A., and Jon Biotti. "Xedia and Silicon Valley Bank (B-2): The Company's Perspective." Harvard Business School Case 298-121, March 1998. (Revised October 2001.)
- June 2025
- Article
What Board-level Control Mechanisms Changed in Banks Following the 2008 Financial Crisis? A Descriptive Study
By: Shelly Li, Shivram Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan and Yu Ting Forester Wong
Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) identified major shortcomings in bank board governance, contributing to systemic risk management failures. This study adapts a management control framework and empirically examines... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Management Control; Governing and Advisory Boards; Governance Controls; Risk Management; Change Management; Banks and Banking; Financial Crisis
Li, Shelly, Shivram Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan, and Yu Ting Forester Wong. "What Board-level Control Mechanisms Changed in Banks Following the 2008 Financial Crisis? A Descriptive Study." Art. 101596. Accounting, Organizations and Society 114 (June 2025).
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My research focuses on issues related to the structure and functioning of the financial system, including risk, competition and disparities in the banking system View Details
- March 2013 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Rough Justice: Stuart Eizenstat and Holocaust-era Asset Restitution (A)
By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green
Beginning in 1994, a series of articles and public disclosures indicated that Swiss banks may have retained assets belonging to victims of the Holocaust, and also may have engaged in long term attempts to block survivors' ability to recover those assets after World War... View Details
Keywords: Banking; Banking And Insurance; U.s. History; Germany; Europe; Governance; History; Negotiation; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Germany; United States; Switzerland
Sebenius, James K., and Laurence A. Green. "Rough Justice: Stuart Eizenstat and Holocaust-era Asset Restitution (A)." Harvard Business School Case 913-037, March 2013. (Revised March 2013.)
- 2013
- Chapter
Central Banking after the Crisis: Challenges for the ECB
By: Huw Pill
Pill, Huw. "Central Banking after the Crisis: Challenges for the ECB." Chap. 12 in Is Inflation Targeting Dead? Thinking Ahead about Central Banking after the Crisis, edited by Richard Baldwin and Lucrezia Reichlin, 126–133. London: Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), 2013.
- Spring–Summer 1993
- Article
Securities Underwriting and Investment Banking Competition in the US
By: Samuel Hayes and Andrew D. Regan
- 06 Aug 2012
- News
Family Offices Seeing Fastest Growth as Firms Oust Banks
- 27 Nov 2023
- News
How James Mwangi Worked to Democratize Banking Across Africa
- 17 Mar 2023
- News
How “Payment Banks” Could Prevent the Next Bank Collapse
- 19 Feb 2019
- News
Bank Boards: What Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis?
- 2018
- Working Paper
Bank Risk-Taking and the Real Economy: Evidence from the Housing Boom and Its Aftermath
By: Antonio Falato, Giovanni Favara and David Scharfstein
The short-termism of lenders amplifies boom-bust credit cycles, leading in turn to real costs for the aggregate economy. During the U.S. housing credit boom, publicly-traded banks increased mortgage lending activity and relaxed standards much more than privately-held... View Details
Falato, Antonio, Giovanni Favara, and David Scharfstein. "Bank Risk-Taking and the Real Economy: Evidence from the Housing Boom and Its Aftermath." Working Paper.
- May 2024
- Article
Financial Innovation in the 21st Century: Evidence from U.S. Patents
By: Josh Lerner, Amit Seru, Nick Short and Yuan Sun
We develop a unique dataset of 24 thousand U.S. finance patents granted over the last two decades to explore the evolution and production of financial innovation. We use machine learning to identify the financial patents and extensively audit the results to ensure... View Details
Keywords: Banking; Investment Banks; Information Technology; Regulation; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Trends
Lerner, Josh, Amit Seru, Nick Short, and Yuan Sun. "Financial Innovation in the 21st Century: Evidence from U.S. Patents." Journal of Political Economy 132, no. 5 (May 2024): 1391–1449.
- November 27, 2023
- Article
How James Mwangi Worked to Democratize Banking Across Africa
By: Ranjay Gulati
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Moral Sensibility; Decisions; Financial Services Industry
Gulati, Ranjay. "How James Mwangi Worked to Democratize Banking Across Africa." Inc.com (November 27, 2023).
- 13 Jan 2020
- Interview
Cas Coovadia, Managing Director, The Banking Association South Africa
By: Cassim Coovadia and Euvin Naidoo
"Cas Coovadia, Managing Director, The Banking Association South Africa." Creating Emerging Markets: Interviews, Harvard Business School and Baker Library, January 13, 2020. (Interviewed by Euvin Naidoo in Johannesburg, South Africa.)
- 17 Nov 2008
- News