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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
economy in the last hundred-plus years. There was no specific event that brought the Dow over the 20,000 mark last week. Markets exhibit a fairly large degree of short-term volatility, so once you get close to 20,000, normal daily market View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
bulk carriers called the 76,000 DWT (deadweight tonnes) Panamax. Using earnings and secondhand prices between 1976 and 2011, they computed the ships' return on investment. Swells And Troughs The researchers found that earnings were quite... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
stock market is overvalued and may experience some volatility as the economy continues to recover, Wang’s research suggests that investors may be relying too heavily on a formerly tried-and-true tool that isn’t paying off as well today.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
the case. In the U.S. service sector, which makes up two-thirds of our economy, inflation is still running at 3 percent. So while some manufacturing businesses are experiencing price deflation for the first time in the postwar era, the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Pflueger, Carolin E., Emil Siriwardane, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We propose a new measure of the economy’s risk appetite based on the valuation of volatile stocks. Unlike proxies for risk appetite derived from aggregates, our measure is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
has led to overblown valuations. "It's a different world. I'm still seeing prices out there on free money valuations that make me think someone didn't read the newspapers last week," he remarked. Stevenson cited Amazon.com,... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
imminent new product and pricing plans, as well as its existing brand power, could greatly hamper AMD's growth and thwart its new initiatives—which included opening up its architecture for end users to customize and recast its brand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk Back in 1985, when Michael Jackson paid what at the time was an eye-popping $47.5 million for ATV Music—and with it the Beatles’s back catalog—he justified the sum by reportedly saying that, just as... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
behave like money. We first present a simple model where households demand money services, which are supplied by three types of claims: deposits, Treasury bills, and asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP). The model provides predictions for the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
"That's not great protection, but at least it's some coverage. But for really devastating kinds of large losses, the coverage levels actually fall from there. They should continue to increase, but don't—and even fall for the most devastating events." View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
that the prices are right, because they usually are," says Harvard Business School finance professor Lauren H. Cohen, who serves as an editor of Management Science. "From there, you can look for the small corners where they are... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
an average -3.6 percent three-day return around the announcement to stop guidance. . . . After the elimination of guidance, stock prices lead earnings less, but there is no change in overall stock return View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Also, people are more attuned to the knowledge that geopolitical strife is influenced by environmental issues, such as how American dependence on Persian Gulf oil colors its behavior in that volatile region. It is only in recent years... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
measured by the covariation of bond returns with stock returns and with consumption growth, and in the volatility of bond returns. A robust stylized fact in empirical finance is that the spread between the yield on long-term bonds and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
Beset by changes on several fronts, the media industry, traditionally comprising the familiar print and broadcast channels of mass communication, has been undergoing a major transformation in recent years, change that appears certain to continue apace. What forces are... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51879 Structural GARCH: The Volatility-Leverage Connection By: Engle, Robert F., and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—During the financial crisis, financial firm leverage and volatility both rose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
available at positive prices. We characterize the size of the p2p network as a function of the firm's pricing strategy and show that the firm may be better off setting high prices, allowing the network to survive, and acknowledging that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Robin S. Lee Publication:Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze platform competition for content in the presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and content providers. We provide a... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
reactors lacked sufficient power to achieve cooldown. To prevent the disaster experienced up north, the site superintendent, Naohiro Masuda, and his team had to connect them to the plant's surviving power sources. In a volatile... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
supply chain system. When commodity prices became more volatile in 2007 and 2008, executives at Domino's changed the way they worked with suppliers and franchisees to manage costs and risks and better... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel