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Private Capital Project

participants are exposed to cutting-edge ideas that will shape their career paths in the Venture Capital and Private Equity Industries Research Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership By: View Details
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Strategy - Faculty & Research

these types of frames is essential. By using outcome frames to address immediate concerns and shifting to process frames to resolve longer-term tensions, leaders can build stakeholder support for complex... View Details
  • October 2020 (Revised December 2020)
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AfricInvest: A Pan-African Investment Platform

By: Victoria Ivashina and Youssef Abdel Aal
The case is set in December 2018, when Ziad Oueslati, co-managing director and co-founder of AfricInvest, a leading pan-African private equity firm headquartered in Tunisia, was reflecting on the future direction of his firm. AfricInvest started as a traditional small... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Strategy; Governance; Financial Services Industry; Tunisia; Africa; Middle East
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Ivashina, Victoria, and Youssef Abdel Aal. "AfricInvest: A Pan-African Investment Platform." Harvard Business School Case 221-037, October 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
  • February 2018
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Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
By the end of 2013, the share of government debt held by the domestic banking sectors of Eurozone countries was more than twice its 2007 level. We show that this type of increasing reliance on the domestic banking sector for absorbing government bonds generates a... View Details
Keywords: Credit Cycles; Sovereign Debt; Financial Repression; Sovereign Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Europe
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Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina. "Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis." Review of Finance 22, no. 1 (February 2018): 83–115.
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Events - Private Capital Project

Cycles September 9, 2024, “Private Capital through Political Cycles” with John Coates (John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School) and Jonathan Lavine (Chair, Bain Capital),... View Details
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
By the end of 2013, the share of government debt held by the domestic banking sectors of Eurozone countries was more than twice its 2007 level. We show that this type of increasing reliance on the domestic banking sector for absorbing government bonds generates a... View Details
Keywords: Credit Cycles; Sovereign Debt; Financial Repression; Sovereign Finance; Greece
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Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina. "Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis." Working Paper, April 2014.
  • 2011
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Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence

By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have been hard to quantify in the time-series. While loan issuance falls in recessions, it is not clear if this is due to... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Banks and Banking; Bonds; Financial Markets; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry
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Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina. "Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-107, June 2010. (Revised August 2011.)
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Falk Bräuning & Victoria Ivashina JULY 2020 When central banks adjust interest rates and equity capital is limited, global banks must benchmark domestic View Details
  • September 2010
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Bank Lending During the Financial Crisis of 2008

By: Victoria Ivashina and David S. Scharfstein
This paper documents that new loans to large borrowers fell by 47% during the peak period of the financial crisis (fourth quarter of 2008) relative to the prior quarter and by 79% relative to the peak of the credit boom (second quarter of 2007). New lending for real... View Details
Keywords: Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Credit; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Crisis; Banking Industry
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Ivashina, Victoria, and David S. Scharfstein. "Bank Lending During the Financial Crisis of 2008." Journal of Financial Economics 97, no. 3 (September 2010): 319–338.
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Finance - Faculty & Research

mechanism that amplifies interest rate volatility. I find strong support for these predictions in the time series of US government bond returns. 2014 Working Paper Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis By: Bo Becker View Details
  • March 2014
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Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence

By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have been hard to quantify in the time series. While loan issuance falls in recessions, it is not clear if this is due to... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Banks and Banking; Bonds; Financial Markets; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry
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Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina. "Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence." Journal of Monetary Economics 62 (March 2014): 76–93.
  • September 2018
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Granite Equity Partners

By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
This case follows Rick Bauerly, CEO of Minnesota-based Granite Equity Partners, a private equity firm that specialized in buying out retiring business owners in the Minnesota community. In 2007, Granite Equity was considering an investment in Tyrell Corp. (name... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity Exit; Investing; Fund Exit; Fund Management; Wealth Management; Liquidity; Buyout; Exit Strategy; Preferred Shares; Convertible Notes; Finance; Private Equity; Investment; Asset Management; Wealth; Management; Financial Liquidity
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Ivashina, Victoria, and Jeffrey Boyar. "Granite Equity Partners." Harvard Business School Case 219-040, September 2018.
  • October 2012
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Securitization without Adverse Selection: The Case of CLOs

By: Effi Benmelech, Jennifer Dlugosz and Victoria Ivashina
In this paper, we investigate whether securitization was associated with risky lending in the corporate loan market by examining the performance of individual loans held by CLOs. We employ two different datasets that identify loan holdings for a large set of CLOs and... View Details
Keywords: Personal Finance; Performance; Markets; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; Investment Portfolio; Financing and Loans
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Benmelech, Effi, Jennifer Dlugosz, and Victoria Ivashina. "Securitization without Adverse Selection: The Case of CLOs." Journal of Financial Economics 106, no. 1 (October 2012): 91–113.
  • May 2011
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Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information

By: Victoria Ivashina and Zheng Sun
Over the past decade, one of the most important developments in the corporate loan market has been the increasing participation of institutional investors in lending syndicates. As lenders, institutional investors routinely receive private information about borrowers.... View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Financing and Loans; Negotiation; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return
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Ivashina, Victoria, and Zheng Sun. "Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information." Journal of Financial Economics 100, no. 2 (May 2011): 284–303.
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Student Research - Doctoral

Organizational Behavior , Entrepreneurial Management 1 results Samuel G. Hanson Finance 1 results Jonas Heese Accounting and Management 1 results Victoria Ivashina Finance 1... View Details
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Weak Credit Covenants

By: Victoria Ivashina and Boris Vallée
Using novel data on 1,240 credit agreements, we investigate sources of contractual complexity in the leveraged loan market. While negative covenants are widespread, carve-out and deductible clauses that qualify them are as frequent. We propose simple and comprehensive... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Loans; Loan Contracts; Debt Covenants; Carve-out; Creditor Governance; LBO; Credit; Agreements and Arrangements; Leveraged Buyouts
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Ivashina, Victoria, and Boris Vallée. "Weak Credit Covenants." Management Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online April 15, 2025.)
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In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

209-093 View Details Assured Guaranty By: Robin Greenwood , Adi Sunderam & Jared Dourdeville FEB 2013 (REVISED FEB 2015) | Harvard Business School Case 213-100 View Details Oaktree and the Restructuring of CIT Group (A) By: View Details
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The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity

By: Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
We examine twenty years of direct private equity investments by seven large institutions. These direct investments perform better than public market indices, especially buyout investments and those made in the 1990s. Outperformance by the direct investments, however,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Intermediation; Direct Investment; Co-investment; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets
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Fang, Lily, Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner. "The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity." Journal of Financial Economics 116, no. 1 (April 2015): 160–178.
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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

investors in London and New York? Kaspi.kz’s business model is one that is unlikely to have developed elsewhere, says Victoria Ivashina, the Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance View Details
  • January 2025
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Arsenal Capital Partners' Refinancing of Pinnacle

By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu
Arsenal Capital Partners’ portfolio company, Pinnacle, a leading producer of high-performance adhesive technologies, has experienced rapid growth under Arsenal’s ownership. Over just two years, Pinnacle's EBITDA increased from $13.5 million to $60 million. By mid-2021,... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Growth Management
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Ivashina, Victoria, and Srimayi Mylavarapu. "Arsenal Capital Partners' Refinancing of Pinnacle." Harvard Business School Case 225-075, January 2025.
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