Publications

February 2009
Article

Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality?

Keywords: Finance; Growth and Development; Banks and Banking; Ownership; Quality

Find at Harvard

Read Now

13 Mar 2007
First Look

India Authors:A. Banerjee, Shawn A. Cole, E. Duflo, and L. Linden Periodical:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming). (August 2007) Abstract This paper presents the results of two randomized experiments... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November 2019
Supplement

SJF Ventures-Transforming Transportation with TransLoc?

August 2020
Supplement

Mike McCreless- Root Capital

September 2007
Teaching Note

BASIX (TN)

Teaching note to (207-099) and (207-108). View Details

Keywords: Financial Institutions; Insurance Industry

February 2009 (Revised February 2022)
Case

Fannie Mae: Public or Private?

By: David A. Moss, Cole Bolton and Kimberly Hagan

In 1987, President Ronald Reagan established the President's Commission on Privatization to identify federal government functions that could be shifted to the private sector. One agency that the Commission considered was the Federal National Mortgage Association, or... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Institutions; Mortgages; Government and Politics; Business History; Privatization; Private Sector; Laws and Statutes; United States

2012
Chapter

Evidence from the Firm: A New Approach to Understanding Corruption

By: Shawn A. Cole and Anh Tran

Due to its clandestine nature, most of what we understand about corruption comes from survey evidence and self-reported perceptions of corruption: this limits both the range of questions that can be asked and the precision of answers that can be provided. This chapter... View Details

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Crime and Corruption; Organizations; Ownership; Asia

24 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases By: Carpena, Fenella, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Abstract—This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 2019
Supplement

Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF Partners)

By: Shawn A. Cole and Vikram S Gandhi

March 2017
Case

Acumen Fund: Lean Data in 2017

By: Shawn A. Cole and Tony L He

2010
Other Unpublished Work

Is High School the Right Time to Teach Self-control? The Effect of Financial Education and Mathematics Courses on Savings Behavior

By: Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry

Household financial behavior affects household welfare and the economy at large. Yet our understanding of how to improve financial decisions is limited. Recent literature and policy attention have focused on financial education, for example, in high school. We use... View Details

Keywords: Saving; Financial Management; Secondary Education; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Finance; Household

Read Now

November 2018 (Revised January 2019)
Case

Investing in Nature: The Nature Conservancy and NatureVest 2018

By: Shawn A. Cole and Caitlin Reimers Brumme

31 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

colleagues to refocus radically on truly modern phenomena, on anticipating the future, and on altering our theorizing and methods accordingly, or we will never catch up. Marketing Complex Financial Products in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Rainfall Insurance in India... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

February 2007 (Revised October 2007)
Case

BASIX

By: Shawn A. Cole and Peter Tufano

BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, weather insurance pays if measured rainfall during the growing season falls below a pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah,... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Microfinance; Insurance; Risk Management; Banking Industry; India

October 2019
Supplement

Thierry Deau, Founder and CEO, Meridiam

By: Shawn A. Cole and Lynn Schenk

October 2019
Supplement

Eric Rice, Patrick Kent, Quyen Tran, Wendy Cromwell; Wellington Global Impact

By: Shawn A. Cole and Lynn Schenk

May 2008 (Revised March 2009)
Case

SKS Microfinance

By: Shawn A. Cole and Theresa Chen

Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the largest and fastest growing microfinance institutions in India, is a profitable, for-profit institution with a social mission. In what is one of the first... View Details

Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Valuation; Financial Services Industry; India