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- March–April 2015
- Article
The Almighty Ruble
By: Debora L. Spar
At 1 AM Moscow time on December 16, Russia's central bank announced a massive hike in the country's interest rate, from 10.5% to 17%. It's not clear how Russian leader Vladimir Putin and his colleagues could realistically have expected to achieve anything by hiking the... View Details
Spar, Debora L. "The Almighty Ruble." Foreign Policy 211 (March–April 2015).
- November 2005
- Teaching Note
Japan: Deficits, Demography and Deflation (TN)
- December 2004 (Revised December 2004)
- Background Note
Fiscal Policy and the Case of Expansionary Fiscal Contraction in Ireland in the 1980s
By: Huw Pill
Provides a brief introduction to fiscal policy, including the fiscal multiplier. Uses Ireland's experience in the 1980s to explore the possibility that fiscal contractions--tax rises and expenditure costs--can stimulate economic growth (contrary to conventional... View Details
Pill, Huw. "Fiscal Policy and the Case of Expansionary Fiscal Contraction in Ireland in the 1980s." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-015, December 2004. (Revised December 2004.)
- 1996
- Other Unpublished Work
The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1995
By: Dutch Leonard, Monica E. Friar and Jay H. Walder
- 1999
- Other Unpublished Work
The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1998
By: Dutch Leonard, Jay H. Walder and Jose A. Acevedo
- 1998
- Report
National Park Bonds: A Patch or A Panacea?: A Report on Meeting the Financial Needs of Our National Parks
By: Dutch Leonard, Henry Lee, Jay H. Walder, Peter Zimmerman and Wendy Vanasselt
- Web
Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring - Course Catalog
municipal, and sovereign restructuring. Although CVCR is primarily a finance course, students will also often have to take an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving, drawing on their training in... View Details
- October 1999 (Revised May 2001)
- Background Note
Japanese Financial System, The: From Postwar to the New Millennium
Describes the development of the Japanese financial system, from extensive regulation and fund allocation through administrative guidance in the 1950s to the banking crisis and legal and structural reorganization in the 1990s. Special emphasis is on the processes of... View Details
Schaede, Ulrike. "Japanese Financial System, The: From Postwar to the New Millennium." Harvard Business School Background Note 700-049, October 1999. (Revised May 2001.)
- 1994
- Other Unpublished Work
The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1993
By: Dutch Leonard and Monica E. Friar
- 1997
- Other Unpublished Work
The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1996
By: Dutch Leonard and Jay H. Walder
- 1998
- Other Unpublished Work
The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1997
By: Dutch Leonard and Jay H. Walder
- July 2002 (Revised February 2003)
- Case
Fresh Start? Peru's Legacy of Debt and Default (A)
By: Julio J. Rotemberg and Lisa Lewis
Considers the situation facing Alberto Fujimori as he takes office in 1990. Pays particular attention to Peru's long history of international borrowing, default, and renegotiation. This history suggests that the costs imposed by foreigners on Peru when it failed to... View Details
Rotemberg, Julio J., and Lisa Lewis. "Fresh Start? Peru's Legacy of Debt and Default (A)." Harvard Business School Case 703-001, July 2002. (Revised February 2003.)
- 1991
- Chapter
Effects of LBOs on Tax Revenues of the U.S. Treasury
By: Michael C. Jensen, Laura Stiglin and Steven N. Kaplan
Jensen, Michael C., Laura Stiglin, and Steven N. Kaplan. "Effects of LBOs on Tax Revenues of the U.S. Treasury." In The Law of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Reorganizations, edited by D. A. Oesterle. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Company, 1991. (Forthcoming in Management Revolution: The Legacy of the Market for Corporate Control, Harvard University Press.)
- Web
Investment Strategies - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Investment Strategies Course Number 1425 Senior Lecturer William Vrattos Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 13 Sessions Exam Career Focus Global capital markets are vast and dynamic, with over $100 trillion in listed public equities and more than $300 trillion... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Funding Progress Back Home
global and sovereign institutional investors Homestrings, launched in 2011, draws on lessons learned in those roles, plus Guichard’s own awareness that “those of us who have found success far from family and friends are looking for... View Details
- February 2016
- Case
Debt and Democracy: The New York Constitutional Convention of 1846
By: David Moss and Dean Grodzins
On September 23, 1846, delegates to New York State's constitutional convention prepared to vote on a proposal that its principal proponent, Michael Hoffman, conceded would be “a serious change in our form of government.” The proposal would place tight restrictions on... View Details
- June 2000 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
Economic Reform in the Czech Republic: Velvet Revolution or Velvet Blanket?
By: Bruce R. Scott and Thomas S. Mondschean
Describes the economic reforms from 1990 to 1998, their success, the subsequent 1997 crisis, and the fall of the Klaus government. View Details
Keywords: History; Sovereign Finance; Development Economics; Privatization; Policy; Government and Politics; Economics; Czech Republic
Scott, Bruce R., and Thomas S. Mondschean. "Economic Reform in the Czech Republic: Velvet Revolution or Velvet Blanket?" Harvard Business School Case 700-100, June 2000. (Revised June 2000.)
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107060 International Capital Markets and Sovereign Debt: Crisis Avoidance and Resolution Harvard Business School Note 707-018 Successive economic crises of the 1990s and early... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace