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- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
The United States has been both credited and criticized for its powerful role in promoting global financial liberalization—the flow of capital across country borders. But research by Harvard Business School Professor Rawi Abdelal has... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
colleagues write in the working paper. "Firms that received loan guarantees, and their employees, enjoyed far more stability than their counterparts." In the United States, where small businesses account for about 47 percent of View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Successful Change: Ten Insights from the Private Sector By: Henderson, Rebecca Abstract—The aim of this book is to catalyze global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management. It is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
(BCECP), which provides tax credits to private equity investors that meet several eligibility criteria. The case study is written from the point of view of a policy maker, with a perspective on the entire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
not occur in non-election years, or in private bank lending. I show capture is costly: elections affect loan repayment, and election year credit booms do not measurably affect agricultural output. Download... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
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
- First Look
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
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
equity groups. Instead, they appear to expand their private equity engagement to take advantage of the credit market booms while capturing private benefits from cross-selling... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
for the working class. First, welfare reformers in the interwar period embraced private credit as an alternative to an expansive welfare state. Second, U.S. organized labor in the wake of World War II... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
inspected employers experienced a 9.4% decline in injury rates (95% confidence interval = -0.177 to -0.021) and a 26% reduction in injury cost (95% confidence interval = -0.513 to -0.083). We find no evidence that these improvements came at the expense of employment,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
business group affiliates and when local institutions develop. Therefore, we shed light on the firm-level implications of minority state ownership, a topic that has received scant attention in the strategy literature. Cornell International Law Review In Strange... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
transparency, and by increasing liquidity by establishing a set of pricing processes that involve the private market as well as whatever this public entity is. "How is this exactly going to work? Nobody knows," Light continued.... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
consequence of actual leverage than it is of risk premiums. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53733 2017 India as a Pioneer of Innovation The Private Provision of Missing Public Goods: Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
Abstract This book presents new research on the historical impact of globalization on Argentina and Chile. The authors focus on the role of entrepreneurs and firms. The Role of Venture Capitalists in the Acquisition of Private Companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
capitalism. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/09/global-capitalism-at-risk-what-are-you-doing-about-it/ar/1 A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending Authors:Rodrigo Canales and Ramana... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
private information is directionally strong, managers, at announcement, provide guidance and use language that points statistically in the opposite direction. This effect is more pronounced when, post-announcement, management insiders... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
late 1980s. The business class is relatively cohesive and very inter-connected, and again increasingly so since the 1980s. This concentration was assisted by privatization of state assets which involved the transfer of a considerable... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
explain what they were doing under the 1991 statute. To hold senior government officials accountable for all bailouts, Congress should extend the 1991 statute to any type of financial institution. Q: How has Congress tried to restore confidence in View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
are commonly called thrifts: savings banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions. Savings institutions were really the first financial intermediaries established specifically to serve the personal saving and borrowing needs of... View Details