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- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
was roughly half as large as prior estimates have suggested. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55509 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract— Recurrent concerns over... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
to European banks, we evaluate a variety of interventions to reduce their vulnerability to fire sales during the sovereign debt crisis. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
who are the primary targets for the firm. "HealthAllies (B)" provides information about subsequent events. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=302019 Iceland (A) Harvard Business School Case 709-011 In May of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
helped large Greek companies and startups compete more effectively. But that hasn't happened.” Greek politicians are blaming, first, one another based on the party affiliation, and second, their European creditors for imposing harsh... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
sectors that are booming. However, as markets in different countries have increasingly moved in tandem or correlated, from 50 or 60 percent in the 1990s to more than 90 percent after the financial crisis of 2008, that strategy has seemed... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
Financial Crisis Robert C. Pozen and Melissa HammerleHarvard Business School Note 311-014 This note will examine the regulatory framework for hedge funds in the United Kingdom (UK) before and after the financial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
spread to other European markets. Within a few months Ireland and Portugal had also lost access to the sovereign debt markets and had to rely on supranational loans for their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
European banking sector, what decision should Crédit Agricole take regarding Emporiki? Through the example of this European cross-border acquisition the case looks at the Greek banking system before and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
(inflows minus outflows of private capital) are positively correlated with countries' productivity growth; (2) net sovereign debt flows (government borrowing minus reserves) are negatively correlated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
case:http://hbr.org/search/313001-PDF-ENG MF Global: Changing Stripes Clayton Rose, Yasmin Dahya, and Jenevieve LeeHarvard Business School Case 312-105 Jon Corzine became the CEO of MF Global in March of 2010. Eighteen months later, and in the wake of a massive trade... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
MBA 1988) is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. For two decades, he ran equity capital markets for Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley. His casework focuses on international investment, sovereign... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15602 PublicationsSeven Lessons for Leading in Crisis Author:Bill George Publication:Warren Bennis Series. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, 2009 Abstract Seven Lessons for Leading in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
government debt is financed by another sovereign and not by private lenders. Our results show that the failure to consider official flows as the main driver of uphill flows and global imbalances is an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We document the consequences of money market fund risk taking during the European View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
fund them in advance, there's trouble ahead. They will soon pay higher interest rates on their municipal bonds and ultimately may face a financial crisis like the current one in Detroit. That's not what the doctor ordered. The Long View... View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
the monopoly power of Medicare and Medicaid enable them to underpay providers by an estimated $90 billion, sums made up by private insurers. But if the market were entirely composed of public insurers, who would take up the slack? The looming doctor shortage could well... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
management alike. Bondholders received something like 10-to-15 cents in new GM equity on the dollar when the debt had no market value. The unions received a larger share of the equity than some thought their due, but in return they... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
transaction referred to as a "Happy Meal." The goal was to help convertible debt investors "hedge their respective investments through short sales." The challenge of the case is to understand why Molycorp used this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract—This paper documents a set of stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility in the nonfinancial corporate sector in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
prices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55025 UK Competitiveness after Brexit By: Ketels, Christian, and Michael E. Porter Abstract—On June 23, 2016, 52% of UK voters opted to put their country on the path to leave the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman