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  • 28 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

researchers at Harvard, the Boston Fed, and other local universities where we get together twice a year to talk about consumer finance research. This fall, we're launching a national consumer View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education
  • 26 Nov 2010
  • News

Pricing Corporate Governance

  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Opting Out of Good Governance

By: C. Fritz Foley, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein and Eric Zwick
Cross-listing on a U.S. exchange does not bond foreign firms to follow the corporate governance rules of that exchange. Hand-collected data show that 80% of cross-listed firms opt out of at least one exchange governance rule, instead committing to observe the rules of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Markets; Globalization; Corporate Governance
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Foley, C. Fritz, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein, and Eric Zwick. "Opting Out of Good Governance." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19953, March 2014.
  • 16 Oct 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson & Jeremy C. Stein
  • 24 Apr 2014
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Supporting the local community that nurtured him

Franklin P. "Pitch" Johnson (MBA 1952) talks about providing support to local organizations in his hometown of Palo Alto, California. (Published April 2014) View Details
  • 1999
  • Chapter

The Limited Financing of Catastrophe Risk: An Overview

By: K. Froot
Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Cost Of Capital; Banking And Insurance; Asset Pricing; Hedging; Banking; Natural Disasters; Insurance; Risk Management; Financial Markets; Policy; Insurance Industry
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Froot, K. "The Limited Financing of Catastrophe Risk: An Overview." In The Financing of Catastrophe Risk, edited by Kenneth A. Froot, 1–22. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 6025, May 1997, and HBS Working Paper No. 98-023, September 1997.)
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Financial Sector More Info The Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield Curves By: Robin Greenwood & Annette Vissing-Jorgensen JUN 2018 In this NBER working paper, researchers from the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability... View Details
  • November 2002 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

Tax-Motivated Film Financing at Rexford Studios

By: Mihir A. Desai, Gabriel J. Loeb and Mark Veblen
The head of production for Rexford Studios must analyze the terms and value consequences of an international financing involving a German film fund. The financing involves a sale-leaseback structure where international tax rules give rise to a sizable economic pie that... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Financing and Loans; Taxation; Cash Flow; Financial Strategy; Financial Management; Competition; Film Entertainment; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; Germany
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Desai, Mihir A., Gabriel J. Loeb, and Mark Veblen. "Tax-Motivated Film Financing at Rexford Studios." Harvard Business School Case 203-005, November 2002. (Revised November 2006.)
  • 25 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

The role of government in Africa must be to establish an "investor friendly" environment, according to Obiageli Ezekwesili, a panelist at the Africa Business Conference's debate on "Government and the Enabling... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Oct 2013
  • News

Harvard MBAs to Crowdfund Local Business

Keywords: crowdsourcing
  • 2018
  • Chapter

Behavioral Household Finance

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
This chapter provides an overview of household finance. The first part summarizes key facts regarding household financial behavior, emphasizing empirical regularities that are inconsistent with the standard classical economic model and discussing extensions of the... View Details
Keywords: Personal Finance; Global Range; Household; Behavior; Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Product Design; Welfare
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Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Behavioral Household Finance." In Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Foundations and Applications 1, edited by B. Douglas Bernheim, Stefano DellaVigna, and David Laibson, 177–276. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2018.
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

sector's tilt toward short-term financing was merely the industry responding to a lack of available government debt instruments, such as short-term risk-free Treasuries, that were much in demand by investors... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services
  • 10 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

activity," he says. Meanwhile, the finance paper shows that a straightforward government policy of providing cheap credit for any and all new ventures may not be the most efficient use of taxpayer... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna

    Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs

    This paper proposes a new approach to social cost-benefit analysis using a model in which a benevolent government chooses risky projects in the presence of market failures and tax distortions.  The government internalizes market failures and therefore perceives project... View Details
    • October 2012 (Revised December 2013)
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    Urbanizing China

    By: Lakshmi Iyer and G.A. Donovan
    In 2012, China attained a historic development milestone with more Chinese citizens living in cities than in the countryside. China's rapid urbanization, and the accompanying conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural uses, raised a number of economic, social,... View Details
    Keywords: China; Urbanization; Industrialization; Property Rights; Local Government Finance; Social Protest; Business Environment; Food Security; Safety; Change Management; Food; Urban Development; Social Issues; Growth and Development Strategy; Public Administration Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China
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    Iyer, Lakshmi, and G.A. Donovan. "Urbanizing China." Harvard Business School Case 713-037, October 2012. (Revised December 2013.)
    • July – August 2009
    • Article

    The Descent of Finance

    What if the current recession turns out to be like the Great Depression of 1929-1933? Four years from now, the United States might find itself with a still-shrinking economy, half as many banks as in 2009, a third as many hedge funds, and retail banking resembling a... View Details
    Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry
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    Ferguson, Niall. "The Descent of Finance." Harvard Business Review 87, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2009).
    • June 2008 (Revised October 2008)
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    International Carbon Finance and EcoSecurities

    By: Andre F. Perold, Forest L. Reinhardt and Mikell Hyman
    In late 2007, EcoSecurities had to decide whether to undertake a new Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in China. EcoSecurities was an aggregator of carbon credits and also invested directly in projects that produced carbon credits. Governments and firms... View Details
    Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Cost Management; Investment Return; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment; Cash Flow; Valuation; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; China
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    Perold, Andre F., Forest L. Reinhardt, and Mikell Hyman. "International Carbon Finance and EcoSecurities." Harvard Business School Case 208-151, June 2008. (Revised October 2008.)
    • 24 May 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

    Coval about the relationship between the government and the private sector, and how policymakers should critically evaluate federal stimulus plans to help local companies. Sean Silverthorne: First, a little... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • January 9, 2016
    • Editorial

    Local Initiative Key to Quality Education

    By: Akshay Mangla
    Keywords: Bureaucracy; India; Governance; Education; India
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    Mangla, Akshay. "Local Initiative Key to Quality Education." Business Standard (January 9, 2016).
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    Finance - Faculty & Research

    vs. Goliath” battle included BlueBell Capital successfully removing Danone’s CEO in March 2021 and Engine No. 1 winning three board seats at ExxonMobil in May 2021. Keywords: Corporate Finance ; Capital Budgeting ; Corporate View Details
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