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  • July 2021
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Medical Debt in the U.S., 2009–2020

By: Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong and Wesley Yin
Importance: Medical debt is an increasing concern in the US, yet there is limited understanding of the amount and distribution of medical debt, and its association with health care policies.

Objective: To measure the amount of medical debt nationally and by... View Details
Keywords: Debt; Borrowing and Debt; Health Care and Treatment; United States
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Kluender, Raymond, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong, and Wesley Yin. "Medical Debt in the U.S., 2009–2020." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 326, no. 3 (July 2021): 250–256.
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Political Economy of Business Development

In an ongoing research stream, Professor Fabbe is studying the political economy of business development in fragile societies. Her newest project in this research stream explores the opportunities for complementarities and joint ventures between Syrian and Turkish... View Details

  • July 2019
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Optimal Capital Structure and Bankruptcy Choice: Dynamic Bargaining vs Liquidation

By: Samuel Antill and Steven R. Grenadier
We model a firm’s optimal capital structure decision in a framework in which it may later choose to enter either Chapter 11 reorganization or Chapter 7 liquidation. Creditors anticipate equityholders’ ex-post reorganization incentives and price them into the ex-ante... View Details
Keywords: Default; Dynamic Bargaining; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Mathematical Methods
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Antill, Samuel, and Steven R. Grenadier. "Optimal Capital Structure and Bankruptcy Choice: Dynamic Bargaining vs Liquidation." Journal of Financial Economics 133, no. 1 (July 2019): 198–224.
  • 13 Jul 2020
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Inflation: baskets of plenty

  • March 2022
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Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps

By: Ernest Liu and Benjamin N. Roth
Microcredit and other forms of small-scale finance have failed to catalyze entrepreneurship in developing countries. In these credit markets, borrowers and lenders often bargain over not only the interest rate but also implicit restrictions on types of investment. We... View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Financing and Loans
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Liu, Ernest, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps." Review of Financial Studies 35, no. 3 (March 2022): 1141–1182.
  • 2014
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Saving More to Borrow Less: Experimental Evidence from Access to Formal Savings Accounts in Chile

By: Felipe Kast and Dina Pomeranz
Poverty is often characterized not only by low and unstable income, but also by heavy debt burdens. We find that reducing barriers to saving through access to free savings accounts decreases participants' short-term debt by about 20%. In addition, participants who... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Poverty; Borrowing and Debt; Chile
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Kast, Felipe, and Dina Pomeranz. "Saving More to Borrow Less: Experimental Evidence from Access to Formal Savings Accounts in Chile." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 20239, June 2014. (Revision requested by Journal of Public Economics. Featured in La Tercera. Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-001, July 2013)
  • March 2006 (Revised November 2010)
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Protecting Foreign Investors

By: Louis T. Wells Jr.
Describes the emergence of several kinds of efforts to assure the safety of foreign investment in emerging markets: international arbitration, expanded official political risk insurance, credit from government agencies, and intervention by investors' home governments.... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Safety
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Wells, Louis T., Jr. "Protecting Foreign Investors." Harvard Business School Background Note 706-044, March 2006. (Revised November 2010.)
  • February 2006 (Revised August 2006)
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Art of the Entrepreneur

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the artists who created The Gates in New York City in 2005, are trying to decide how best to finance their next project. Over the River, a project to drape sections of the Arkansas River with translucent fabric is a very different enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Arts; Fine Arts Industry; Arkansas
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Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Art of the Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Case 806-014, February 2006. (Revised August 2006.)

    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

    • October 2024
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    Estímulo: Blended Finance in Brazil

    By: Vikram S. Gandhi, James Barnett, Maxim Pike Harrell and Marina Osborn
    In December 2022, Estímulo—a Brazilian impact investment fund supporting small businesses—found itself at a crossroads. The fund was established in 2020 to provide emergency relief through accessible credit and financial education. When low default rates from borrowers... View Details
    Keywords: Credit; Financial Management; Financing and Loans; Investment; Social Enterprise; Business Model; Financial Services Industry; Brazil; South America; Latin America
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    Gandhi, Vikram S., James Barnett, Maxim Pike Harrell, and Marina Osborn. "Estímulo: Blended Finance in Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 325-016, October 2024.
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    Capital flows in a Globalized Economy: The Role of Policies and Institutions (joint with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych)

    By: Laura Alfaro
    We describe the patterns of international capital flows in the period 1970-2000. We then examine the determinants of capital flows and capital flow volatility during this period. We find that institutional quality is an important determinant of capital flows.... View Details
    • 2024
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    Creditor-on-Creditor Violence and Secured Debt Dynamics

    By: Samuel Antill, Neng Wang and Zhaoli Jiang
    Secured lenders have recently demanded a new condition in distressed debt restructurings: competing secured lenders must lose priority. We model the implications of this “creditor-on-creditor violence” trend. In our dynamic model, secured lenders enjoy higher priority... View Details
    Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Debt Securities; Conflict and Resolution
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    Antill, Samuel, Neng Wang, and Zhaoli Jiang. "Creditor-on-Creditor Violence and Secured Debt Dynamics." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32823, August 2024. (Reject & Resubmit, Review of Financial Studies.)
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    Beyond Statistics: The Economic Content of Risk Scores

    By: Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender and Paul Schrimpf
    "Big data" and statistical techniques to score potential transactions have transformed insurance and credit markets. In this paper, we observe that these widely-used statistical scores summarize a much richer heterogeneity, and may be endogenous to the context in which... View Details
    Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Risk and Uncertainty; Insurance Industry
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    Einav, Liran, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender, and Paul Schrimpf. "Beyond Statistics: The Economic Content of Risk Scores." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 8, no. 2 (April 2016): 195–224.
    • 30 Oct 2020
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    The Pandemic Is Costing Americans More Money Than Official Numbers Suggest

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    Overview

    Professor Becker’s research revolves around the way financing supply and financial conditions affect firm behavior, investment, and financing choices. His work on financial contracting has revealed that, in recent years, greater competition has tended to lower rather... View Details
    • September 1994 (Revised April 1995)
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    Banque Paribas: Paribas Derives Garantis

    In March 1993, the management of Paribas Capital Markets is making a final review of the proposal to set up Paribas Derives Garantis (PDG), a special-purpose subsidiary of Compagnie Financiere de Paribas (CFP), that would guarantee derivative products offered by Banque... View Details
    Keywords: Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Business Subsidiaries; Banks and Banking; Financial Services Industry
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    Mason, Scott P., and Kuljot Singh. "Banque Paribas: Paribas Derives Garantis." Harvard Business School Case 295-008, September 1994. (Revised April 1995.)
    • October 1994
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    Bankers Trust: Global Investment Bank

    By: Andre F. Perold and Kuljot Singh
    In October 1992, Eugene Shanks, president of Bankers Trust New York Corp., and Brian Walsh, head of the Global Investment Bank (GIB) business unit, are considering a proposal for a large and complex financing involving the North Sea Oil Co. (NSOC). The financing... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Risk Management; Value Creation; Business History; Capital Markets; Financing and Loans; Financial Markets; Corporate Finance; Banking Industry; Energy Industry
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    Perold, Andre F., and Kuljot Singh. "Bankers Trust: Global Investment Bank." Harvard Business School Case 295-010, October 1994.
    • 01 Jan 2015
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    Lobbying Behavior of Governmental Entities: Evidence from Public Pension Accounting Rules

    Keywords: by Abigail M. Allen & Reining Petacchi
    • March 2016 (Revised August 2016)
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    CreditEase: Taking Inclusive Finance Online

    By: Michael Chu, John S. Ji and Nancy Hua Dai
    The world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) lender annually disbursing over a million loans totaling $10 billion, China’s CreditEase, must decide whether to IPO in the NYSE its online lending platform, Yirendai, before the year-end window closes in 2015. Yirendai sought to... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Internet and the Web; Financing and Loans; Credit; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; China
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    Chu, Michael, John S. Ji, and Nancy Hua Dai. "CreditEase: Taking Inclusive Finance Online." Harvard Business School Case 316-151, March 2016. (Revised August 2016.)
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    The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

    The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
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