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- 1992
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Exchange Rate Forecasting Techniques, Survey Data, and Implications for the Foreign Exchange Market
By: J. Frankel and K. A. Froot
Keywords: Currencies; Exchange Rates; International Macroeconomics; Monetary Policy; Currency Controls; Fixed Exchange Rates; Floating Exchange Rates; Currency Bands; Currency Zones; Currency Areas; Rational Expectations; International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Asset Pricing; Forecasting and Prediction; Policy
Frankel, J., and K. A. Froot. "Exchange Rate Forecasting Techniques, Survey Data, and Implications for the Foreign Exchange Market." In International Business Reader, edited by D. Duta. London: Oxford University Press, 1992. (Revised from IMF Working Paper No. 90/43 and NBER Working Paper No. 3470, October 1990.)
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
- Profile
Adam Kanner
percent to 50 percent of tickets to live events go unsold. Reasons for this excess capacity vary, from a hefty rise in ticket prices for concerts and sporting events over the past decade, to a wave of digital entertainment options that... View Details
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
It's best to be nice when negotiating a business deal, but it's also OK to be aggressive in pursuing your interests—as long as you back up your position with facts. "If you're a seller and your price seems high, but it's justified in... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
has researched stock price manipulation in Japan and looked specifically at firms like Livedoor. He says the Livedoor episode may, in the end, do some good by paving the road for reform of Japan's "abysmal" corporate governance.... View Details
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
studies to check on shifts in price elasticities of demand and price-attribute tradeoffs can usefully improve the profitability of pricing decisions at a time when cash is... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
of war. We have reached the tipping point where Pax Americana now threatens Brand America. For some, the problem is the Bush administration's pattern of unilateral decision making. For others, especially in Europe, Bush's manner has... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
have different pricing for different markets. AM: One of our biggest growth areas is Koreans coming to shop on Gilt. The price of a good can be almost 100 percent more in certain markets. Do you think this... View Details
- Student-Profile
Olivia Zhao
write prescriptions. For the longest time, doctors didn’t know the costs that their patients would incur. Today, there are new electronic tools that show doctors the price of a given drug, as well as lower-cost alternatives. I’m curious... View Details
- 25 Oct 2006
- Op-Ed
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance
The latest corporate governance crisis is buried in the details of executive compensation contracts. Don't like the timing of the stock option grant you got or the strike price of the contract? No worries! It turns out that this is... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert over the different segments of their production processes. We describe a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
pressure from Walmart and other retailers can lead to unsafe decisions by gas can manufacturers and factory owners. This pattern is being repeated across product categories in many nations. When a company refuses to accept View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
Harvard Business School Case 208-111 This lesson develops the classical structural approach to pricing and hedging credit risk: Merton's (1974) contingent claims model of debt and equity claims. This model is used to make investment and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
price. ©iStock.com/Rawpixel Ltd Examples of PWYW pricing abound in all industries: Radiohead's self-released its In Rainbows album with "name your price" downloads; the Dallas Theater Center holds "Pay-What-You-Can"... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
and the needs of his or her new employer.Not all managers are equally suited to all business situations. The strategic skills required to control costs in the face of fierce price competition are not the same as those required to improve... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sabina Robinov
diagnosed with cancer. After an internal struggle, I made the difficult decision to move to the US and risk missing the precious time my father has left. I chose to focus on building myself professionally and personally. Every day I am... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
from consumers shopping at the more popular store. Second, the intermediary may have an incentive to degrade the quality of search even further when its design decision influences the prices charged by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
Sageworks, a financial information company based in Raleigh, North Carolina. When Sageworks decided to open up its nearly 250,000 private-firm database of detailed accounting information to academic researchers, Ljungqvist was one of the fortunate few the company... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
rational assessment of ethicality should not depend on the identifiability of the victim of wrongdoing or the actual harm caused if the judge and the decision maker have the same information. Yet in five laboratory studies, we show that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
mandated benefits and “community pricing” can neither design nor price their innovations. Technology entrepreneurs must clear massive hurdles before securing the “coding” and “coverage” decisions that open... View Details