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Sarah Wolfolds
experience at the FED, but exploring the theory in organizational economics and the literature in Strategy has led to more specific ideas about how I could arbitrage these literatures. The HBS Experience The best thing about HBS is the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
their internal capital and product markets to access global resources while local firms can’t. In effect, these distorted environments burden local firms, create opportunities for institutional arbitrage for multinational firms, and can... View Details
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
for institutional arbitrage for multinational firms, and can lead to a successful set of foreign activities for multinational firms. The United States, in contrast, creates few such opportunities for low-hanging fruit for foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
boutique investment firm; Bear Stearns; and then Gruss Partners, where he concentrated on risk arbitrage and bankruptcy investing. In 1994, Paulson was ready to return to his entrepreneurial roots and set up his own fund. “Ultimately,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
Aldo Sesia Jr.Harvard Business School Case 211-018 Investment manager Eliza Baena confronts an apparent convertible bond arbitrage opportunity when she notices a narrowing spread between two Boston Properties (BXP) bonds, one a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Samuel G., and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop a novel methodology to infer the amount of capital allocated to quantitative equity arbitrage strategies. Using this methodology, which exploits time-variation in the cross section of short... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
coupled with continuing low interest rates. This is providing a huge arbitrage play between the public and private markets and a "de-REIT-ing" or privatization of approximately $90 billion last year. These privatizations... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
becomes more and more problematic. We see the symptoms of decline, which are driven by things like labor arbitrage and industries moving assembly overseas, followed by more and more sophisticated work. The thesis that we advance is that... View Details
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IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog
position enhance its appeal to global businesses and investors? Is there an arbitrage on China, and will Singapore have to pick sides? What is Singapore's five-year and ten-year vision, and what are the potential advantages and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
analysis." In 1960, he moved from conventional research to arbitrage research for the firm's own capital account, where, he explains, "returns were based upon outcomes such as deal closings, which could be qualified more readily than... View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
case asks students to evaluate the pricing of preferred stock relative to common stock at this time. As the case takes place during a period of considerable uncertainty in global capital markets, and conventional sources of arbitrage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
Shih: I think it becomes more and more problematic. We see the symptoms of decline, which are driven by things like labor arbitrage and industries moving assembly overseas, followed by more and more sophisticated work. The thesis that we... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Arbitrage at Tannenberg Capital No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-066 Merger Arbitrage at Tannenberg Capital (B) No... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
argue that the puzzling combination of high-frequency excess sensitivity and low-frequency decoupling between short- and long-term rates can be understood using a model in which (i) shocks to short-term interest rates lead to a rise in term premia on long-term bonds... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
River Management Company Investment manager Eliza Baena confronts an apparent convertible bond arbitrage opportunity when she notices a narrowing spread between two Boston Properties (BXP) bonds, one a convertible bond and the other a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
Recently, the underpinnings of this historic view have been questioned. In particular, the historic view assumes that what multinational firms do is choose between investing at home and abroad and effectively arbitrage any differences in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
open up within them, giving companies a powerful mechanism for arbitrage across national financial markets. Managing these internal markets to build an advantage requires that CFOs must balance new financial opportunities with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
initially cited by other Chinese/Indian inventors. We also find that Chinese/Indian migrant inventors are likely to engage in arbitraging their prior knowledge, while inventors from other ethnic backgrounds are likely to engage in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
within markets: When sentiment is high, future returns are low on relatively difficult to arbitrage and difficult to value stocks. Private capital flows appear to be one mechanism by which sentiment spreads across markets and forms global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
high-beta and high-volatility stocks have long underperformed low-beta and low-volatility stocks. This anomaly may be partly explained by the fact that the typical institutional investor's mandate to beat a fixed benchmark discourages View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne