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- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950, which studies the relationships between law, corporate governance, and economic development. We also asked him what turn-of-the-century Brazil can teach us about government bailouts today. Sean... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
Pasciucco was appointed to lead American International Group's Financial Products (AIGFP) group after the government bailout of AIG in 2008 and charged with the task of shutting down the division while minimizing the government's losses.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
"too-big-to-fail" policies and bailouts by regulators in general. Finally, the approach taken here shows that financial crises may be a consequence of observed but unexpected deviations from the ex-ante optimal risk-sharing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
mountain of pension costs. John Macomber, Robert Pozen, and Eric Werker—offer their views on some down-the-road scenarios. Beyond A Bailout By: Senior Lecturer John Macomber Detroit has failed. Why did this happen, might there be more big... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19 Should state and local governments receive a bailout from Congress? What can they do to generate more revenue? Share your insights below. View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
Fannie and Freddie, we’re not proposing that the government step in and bail out the existing holders of mortgage-backed securities. The same bailout risk would occur with the proposed private institutions. What we advocate is that the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
large, interconnected financial institution is likely to lead to the failure of many other large institutions. Most of the 600 institutions recapitalized by the federal government over the last year do not satisfy either criterion. A lot of View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
in the period following the second Greek bailout in early 2010. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53996 2018 The New Era of the CCO: The Essential Role of Communication in a Volatile World The Trust... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
families, and small businesses and their employees made sense. But some of the larger corporate bailouts really should have taken a backseat to further investments in public health. People use the phrase “fiscal stimulus” to describe the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
the case that the Clinton and Bush administrations and members of Congress of both parties pursued an extreme affordable-housing agenda that led to the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If Fannie and Freddie had not failed, requiring government intervention and... View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
(Title II), allowing regulators to liquidate systemically dangerous firms in an orderly way if one or more of these firms get into serious trouble. Had such a mechanism existed in 2008, we likely could have avoided not only the $29 billion View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
billions of dollars in bailout money converted into a 34% ownership stake for the U.S. government. Citigroup was worth less than $16 billion, having lost more than $250 billion in value from its peak. This case examines Citi's business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
constructing effective risk management policies. In terms of change, which you asked about, I would point to three things. First, on the negative side, it seems clear that as public risk management has become more common, many more people have come to expect government... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
and banking crisis. The paper then explains how the crisis unraveled and describes the U.S. bailout of the Mexican government in 1995. Since the exchange rate crisis of December of 1994 then translated into a banking crisis in 1995, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
Harvard Business School Case 718-022 Hank and Nancy: The Subprime Crisis, the Run on Lehman and the Shadow Banks, and the Decision to Bailout Wall Street No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
assets—which Greece has had a wealth of in recent years. Indeed the last decade has been rough on the country, to vastly understate the impact of a sovereign debt crisis that nearly kneecapped the entire eurozone. A succession of three View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Blackstone and Carlyle. For a time it seemed as if the sovereign wealth funds might orchestrate a global bailout of Western finance, the ultimate role reversal in financial history. For the proponents of what George Soros has disparaged... View Details
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Ink’s Wild Ride Over the Top What’s Wrong with Executive Pay? Read All About It! Complete Table of Contents June 2009 Dispatches from the Global Classroom Cynthia Carroll Chief Executive, Anglo American plc Too Big To Fail Four little words have cost U.S. taxpayers... View Details