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- Faculty Publications (133)
- 2013
- Working Paper
How Does Risk Management Influence Production Decisions? Evidence from a Field Experiment
By: Shawn Cole, Xavier Gine and James Vickery
Weather is a key source of income risk, particularly in emerging market economies. This paper uses a randomized controlled trial involving a sample of Indian farmers to study how an innovative rainfall insurance product affects production decisions. We find that...
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Keywords:
Risk Management;
Production;
Weather;
Insurance;
Emerging Markets;
Agribusiness;
Insurance Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
India
Cole, Shawn, Xavier Gine, and James Vickery. "How Does Risk Management Influence Production Decisions? Evidence from a Field Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-080, March 2013. (Revised September 2014.)
- September 2023
- Supplement
Root Capital and the Efficient Impact Frontier Simulation Dataset for Students
By: Shawn Cole
- 23 Dec 2020
- News
Why the Growth of Impact Investing Depends on Data
- October 2021
- Article
Changing Gambling Behavior through Experiential Learning
By: Shawn A. Cole, Martin Abel and Bilal Zia
This paper tests experiential learning as a debiasing tool to reduce gambling in South Africa, through a randomized field experiment. The study implements a simple, interactive game that simulates the odds of winning the national lottery through dice rolling....
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Keywords:
Debiasing;
Experiential Learning;
Behavioral Economics;
Financial Education;
Learning;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Behavior;
Decision Making
Cole, Shawn A., Martin Abel, and Bilal Zia. "Changing Gambling Behavior through Experiential Learning." World Bank Economic Review 35, no. 3 (October 2021): 745–763.
- May 2022
- Article
Can Gambling Increase Savings? Empirical Evidence on Prize-Linked Savings Accounts
By: Shawn A. Cole, Benjamin Iverson and Peter Tufano
This paper studies the adoption and impact of prize-linked savings (PLS) accounts, which offer lottery-like payouts to individual account holders in lieu of interest. Using microlevel data from a bank in South Africa, we show that PLS is attractive to a broad group of...
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Keywords:
Household Finance;
Banking;
Savings;
Prize-linked Savings;
Lottery;
Household;
Personal Finance;
Saving;
Banks and Banking
Cole, Shawn A., Benjamin Iverson, and Peter Tufano. "Can Gambling Increase Savings? Empirical Evidence on Prize-Linked Savings Accounts." Management Science 68, no. 5 (May 2022): 3282–3308.
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
on MBAs. Here’s a closer look at three of this year’s offerings. Investing for Impact Professor Shawn Cole, Finance, and Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi, General Management A rapidly growing share of asset owners and managers are making...
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Julia Hanna
- January 2019 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Blackstone Alternative Asset Management in 2018
By: Emil Siriwardane, Luis M. Viceira and Shawn O'Brien
In early 2018, Blackstone announced that John McCormick would succeed Tom Hill as President and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM), the largest fund-of-hedge funds in the world by a sizeable margin. As new CEO, McCormick must...
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Keywords:
Asset Management;
Expansion;
Strategy;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financial Services Industry
Siriwardane, Emil, Luis M. Viceira, and Shawn O'Brien. "Blackstone Alternative Asset Management in 2018." Harvard Business School Case 219-063, January 2019. (Revised March 2020.)
- Article
Liability Structure in Small-Scale Finance
By: Fenella Carpena, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro and Bilal Zia
Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has experienced dramatic growth, reaching over 150 million borrowers worldwide. Much of the success of microfinance has been attributed to attempts to overcome the challenges of information asymmetries...
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Keywords:
Microfinance;
Emerging Markets;
Financial Markets;
Legal Liability;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry;
India
Carpena, Fenella, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia. "Liability Structure in Small-Scale Finance." World Bank Economic Review 27, no. 3 (2013): 437–469.
- March 2013 (Revised March 2013)
- Teaching Note
Social Finance, Inc. (TN)
By: Shawn Cole
- April 2009
- Teaching Note
First National Bank's Golden Opportunity (TN)
By: Shawn A. Cole
Teaching Note for [208072].
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Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Elections, Banks and Agricultural Lending in India
By: Shawn A. Cole
Cole, Shawn A. "Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Elections, Banks and Agricultural Lending in India." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1, no. 1 (January 2009): 219–50.
- April 2009
- Teaching Note
SKS Microfinance (TN)
By: Shawn A. Cole
Teaching Note for [208137].
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- February 2009
- Article
Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality?
By: Shawn A. Cole
Cole, Shawn A. "Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality?" Review of Economics and Statistics 91, no. 1 (February 2009): 33–51.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Accountability of Corporate Emissions Reduction Targets
By: Xiaoyan Jiang, Shawn Kim and Shirley Lu
Firms are increasingly announcing targets to reduce their carbon emissions, but it is unclear whether firms are held accountable for these targets. In this paper, we examine emissions targets that ended in 2020 to investigate the prevalence of missed targets, how firms...
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Keywords:
Carbon Emissions;
Corporate Disclosure;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Climate Change
Jiang, Xiaoyan, Shawn Kim, and Shirley Lu. "Accountability of Corporate Emissions Reduction Targets." SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 4676649, December 2023.
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
April 2018 Management Science Offline Showrooms in Omni-channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits By: Bell, David R., Santiago Gallino, and Antonio Moreno Abstract—Omnichannel environments where customers shop online and offline at the same retailer are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- February 2009 (Revised February 2022)
- Case
Fannie Mae: Public or Private?
By: David A. Moss, Cole Bolton and Kimberly Hagan
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan established the President's Commission on Privatization to identify federal government functions that could be shifted to the private sector. One agency that the Commission considered was the Federal National Mortgage Association, or...
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Keywords:
Restructuring;
Financial Institutions;
Mortgages;
Government and Politics;
Business History;
Privatization;
Private Sector;
Laws and Statutes;
United States
Moss, David A., Cole Bolton, and Kimberly Hagan. "Fannie Mae: Public or Private?" Harvard Business School Case 709-025, February 2009. (Revised February 2022.)
- September 2023
- Supplement
Root Capital and the Efficient Impact Frontier Simulation: Guidelines and Suggestions
By: Shawn Cole
Cole, Shawn. "Root Capital and the Efficient Impact Frontier Simulation: Guidelines and Suggestions." Harvard Business School Supplement 224-034, September 2023.