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March 2011
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Institutional Demand Pressure and the Cost of Corporate Loans

Between 2001 and 2007, annual institutional funding in highly leveraged loans went up from $32 billion to $426 billion, accounting for nearly 70% of the jump in total syndicated loan issuance over the same period. Did the inflow of institutional funding in the... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Financial Crisis; Credit; Debt Securities; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Investment

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23 Jan 2008
Op-Ed

A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?

evolved to let everybody, even people with shaky credit and no savings, sign on the dotted line. Some people made their living by buying and selling homes. "Flipper" entered the lexicon. Home might or might not be where the... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Construction; Real Estate

26 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54634 forthcoming Journal of Finance Limited Investment Capital and Credit Spreads By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary credit default swap... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Apr 2018
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New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54301 On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks By: Alfaro, Laura, Manuel García-Santana, and Enrique Moral-Benito Abstract—We consider the real effects of bank lending... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2016
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March 1, 2016

sentiment proxies indicate that credit risk is aggressively priced, this tends to be followed by a subsequent widening of credit spreads, and the timing of this widening is, in turn, closely tied to the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

can focus on that, it is the way to win." One way to be a good value creator: give coworkers credit where credit is due. The need to appear smart can lead managers to cast blame on others for missteps... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55694 forthcoming Journal of Monetary Economics U.S. Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles By: Bräuning, Falk, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract— Foreign banks’ lending to firms in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

(Yu’e Bao), wealth management (Ant Fortune), digital-only banking (MYbank), credit scoring (Zhima Credit), and consumer credit portal (Ant Credit Pay) among others. After... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

Wellfleet Bank: All That Glisters Is Not Gold Anette MikesHarvard Business School Case 110-011 Inspired by one of the few banks that successfully weathered the 2007-2009 credit crisis, the case illustrates risk management in the world of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Oct 2014
Op-Ed

Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness

it is self-limiting. It is chiefly a disease of caregivers for that very reason. In that regard, we must give the doctors and nurses on the front lines credit for being willing to take significant risks to help and treat others afflicted... View Details

Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda; Health

October 2013 (Revised December 2013)
Teaching Note

Blackstone and the Sale of Citigroup's Loan Portfolio Teaching Note

By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein

Keywords: Derivatives; Bankruptcy; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Private Equity; Restructuring; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry

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16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51460 Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of Corporate Credit Risk By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary data on all credit default swap... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

and arranged terms of credit in case the "prospect" wanted to buy. In some cases, like the refrigerator, manufacturers relied on salespeople to introduce a product, but once it was accepted by consumers, they turned to advertising. In... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

system of a large federal credit union, we delineate four important constraints likely to affect the lending process: (1) limited attention (or distraction), (2) task-specific human capital, (3) peer perception, and (4) learning over the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

switching to a business model with high inventory and long lead times. The company must consider what the change will mean for operations, risk, and measuring profitability. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/108032-PDF-ENG Delphi Corp. and the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

Zeng found, is the amount of information available about loan applicants. When platforms share a lot of information about applicants with potential investors—data such as income, debt level, and credit history, and even whether the loan... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

03 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

thresholds for quantity discounts, extend credit to long-standing customers, and price smaller pack sizes more aggressively. In tough times, price cuts attract more consumer support than promotions such as sweepstakes and mail-in offers.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8

Economics 1, no. 1 (December 2009) Abstract Much of empirical corporate finance focuses on sources of the demand for various forms of capital, not the supply. Recently, this has changed. Supply effects of equity and credit markets can... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 1987 (Revised November 1991)
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R.J. Reynolds International Financing

By: W. Carl Kester and William B. Allen

Reynolds must source a substantial portion of the financing of its Nabisco acquisition in offshore bond markets. Morgan Guaranty has proposed a yen/dollar dual currency Eurobond that could be hedged into dollars. This structure is compared to Eurodollar Bonds, Euroyen... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Capital Markets; Currency Exchange Rate; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Bonds; Financing and Loans

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