2008 Financial Crisis - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'

07 Jul 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Predictable Financial Crises

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, Andrei Shleifer, and Jakob Ahm Sørensen

05 Aug 2008
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rebalancing in the financial portfolio of participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half of idiosyncratic passive variations in the risky asset share.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

Media.) Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-039.pdf From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America Authors:Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

Aakash's strength, and Patel has read that a strong finance person can help position a company for success. The company has recently experienced significant growth due to a new program of branded oils, and Patel is worried that the View Details

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17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008

loans to small firms and those with more "soft information"—particularly in states with weak legal enforcement of financial contracts. However, decentralized banks are also more responsive to the competitive environment when... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2000
Case

Japanese Financial Crisis and the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, The

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Andrew Eggers

Illustrates the failure of Japan's banking elite to adjust to new economic conditions. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Behavior; Japan

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11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

financial services that Washington D.C.-based Microfinance International Corporation (MFIC) had been providing for two years to a growing number of "unbanked" Hispanic nationals in the United States and their home countries.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

May 2009 (Revised June 2011)
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Going to the Oracle: Goldman Sachs, September 2008

By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane

On September 23, 2008, in the midst of an historic crisis in the U.S. financial markets, Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs. Goldman CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, said: "We are pleased that given our longstanding relationship, Warren... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Investment; Performance Capacity; Financial Services Industry; United States

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June 2014
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JP Morgan Private Bank: Risk Management during the Financial Crisis 2008-2009

By: Anette Mikes

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26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Private Equity and Portfolio Companies: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis

By: Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner and Filippo Mezzanotti

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19 Nov 2009
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Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us …)

Keywords: by William A. Sahlman

04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

Lerner, and Jean Tirole Abstract The sub-prime crisis has shown a harsh spotlight on the practices of securities underwriters, which provided too many complex securities that proved to ultimately have little value. This uproar calls... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 18, 2008

other reasons. Implications for the link between religion and pro-social behavior are discussed. No PDF is available at this time. Cases & Course MaterialsExecutive Pay and the Credit Crisis of 2008... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

traders increased Iceland's vulnerability to a confidence crisis because they were quick to liquidate their holdings at the first sign of distress. The plunge in the Icelandic Krona since the beginning of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

Amazon.com, Inc., specializing in the provision of web-based storage and computing services to web developers. The case focuses on the issues facing Andy Jassy, the head of AWS, in 2008 as AWS faces increased competition from established... View Details

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08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

success cause this financial meltdown? Conversely, what role had foreign investors played in setting up the crisis by pouring short-term capital into Korea's partially and unevenly liberalized View Details

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29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

domestic savings, has no effect on the financial account, and leads to unaccounted capital flight. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBrigham and Women's Hospital: Shapiro... View Details

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April 2010
Case

The Credit Crisis of 2008: An Overview

By: V.G. Narayanan, Fabrizio Ferri and Lisa Brem

This case examines the causes and consequences of the credit crisis of 2008 from a national and global perspective and explores the actions taken and proposed by the U.S. and European governments. View Details