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  • 14 Oct 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Undisclosed Debt Sustainability

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
  • 1988
  • Chapter

Evaluation of Government Financial Incentives to Large Scale Energy Projects: A Contingent Claims Approach

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Scott P. Mason
Keywords: Energy; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Sovereign Finance; Business and Government Relations; Mathematical Methods; Energy Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

research in finance and economics. We propose two tests to evaluate how well measures of financial constraints actually capture constraints. We find that firms typically classified as constrained do not in fact behave as if they were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817081-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-051 Unigrains Unigrains is a French agribusiness-focused private equity firm that has provided specialized financing to France's agribusiness sector... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

firearms industry company in its community is examined. Publisher's link: https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=32094&i=32096&cs=80fcfaa8da53da1a3cdd0ea8f861eeed August 2013 Journal of Finance Is a VC... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930

By: Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio
There is a large amount of literature that aims to explain what determines country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk-free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Sovereign Finance; Goods and Commodities; Risk and Uncertainty; Trade; Taxation; Cost of Capital; Revenue; Brazil
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  • May 1998 (Revised January 1999)
  • Case

Japan: "Free, Fair, and Global?"

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Stephen E. Lynagh
In April 1998, Prime Minister Hashimoto faced serious problems, both with his program of six systemic reforms and with his fiscal policy. Japan had been in effective recession for six years, unable to retain the miracle-growth achieved in earlier decades. Hashimoto has... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Development Economics; Social Issues; Policy; Economy; Government Administration; Financial Crisis; Japan
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  • 15 Sep 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

money when those shocks occur. “They should be less concerned about that, because they can ride out those waves,” says Viceira. Thus, for investors looking beyond a 10- to 20-year time frame—including individuals saving for retirement, college endowments, foundations,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

are not directly related to mining, such as trade, finance and services. We use quantile instrumental variable regression techniques and identify mostly homogeneous effects throughout the conditional city growth distribution. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

  Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2013
  • Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

and new construction. On the other hand, well-managed public-private partnerships, where the private sector funds, builds, and operates key public infrastructure, can shift the capital requirement from municipalities to the private sector. When there are adequate... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

largest shareholder, Khazanah Nacional, the sovereign wealth fund, is tasked with helping to grow the Malaysian economy. Should Khazanah encourage job and route cuts at MAS, and how would the government react to them? Moreover, should... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 1997 (Revised March 1997)
  • Background Note

Note on Money and Monetary Policy

By: David A. Moss and Wyatt C. Wells
Offers a brief overview of economic thinking about the nature of money and about how the central bank can affect the economy through monetary policy. View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Government Administration; Policy; Central Banking; Money; Inflation and Deflation; Financial Crisis
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  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

was roughly half as large as prior estimates have suggested. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55509 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract— Recurrent concerns over... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

government debt is financed by another sovereign and not by private lenders. Our results show that the failure to consider official flows as the main driver of uphill flows and global imbalances is an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • June 2010 (Revised July 2012)
  • Supplement

Dubai: Debt, Development, and Crisis (C)

By: Aldo Musacchio, Andrew Christopher Goodman and Claire K. Qureshi
On November 25, 2009, the city state of Dubai stunned markets by announcing that Dubai World, its flagship state holding company, would seek a six month "standstill" on at least $4 billion U.S. dollars of its $26 billion in debt obligations. This case describes Dubai's... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Investment; Emerging Markets; Trade; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Development Economics; Financial Crisis; State Ownership; Sovereign Finance; Business Strategy; Dubai
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  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

constitute a first level in the system, regulatory systems the second level, and political authority the third. This multi-level system could not emerge until sovereign political authorities relinquished some power in order to release the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

solicitation of interest from sovereign wealth funds alongside traditional buyers. IPOs require a leap of faith from investors who have to bet on a new company. The new GM wants to be just that, a corporation intent on presenting itself... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto

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