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  • 28 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

must address a major design problem: Sophisticated investors have been gaming the system by applying specialized screening tools to scoop up the choicest loans with the lowest default rates, leaving less... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services
  • May 2019
  • Article

Marketplace Lending: A New Banking Paradigm?

By: Boris Vallée and Yao Zeng
Marketplace lending relies on large-scale loan screening by investors, a major deviation from the traditional banking paradigm. Theoretically, participation of sophisticated investors in marketplace lending improves screening outcomes but also creates adverse... View Details
Keywords: Marketplace Lending; Screening; Sophisticated Investors; Adverse Selection; Financing and Loans; Performance; Information
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  • 19 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles

marginal investor can change over time. We usually think of mutual funds as relatively sophisticated investors, perhaps even exerting a stabilizing influence on price at times when individual View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • Teaching Interest

Investment Managment for Professional and Personal Investors

By: Luis M. Viceira
IMPPI is suitable for all students interested in gaining a broad perspective on investing and the asset management business, including those targeting careers in asset management and those interested in learning how to become sophisticated consumers of investment... View Details
  • 12 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

and Stanford University Professor Amit Seru—detail their findings in the revised working paper Arbitration with Uninformed Customers, released in May. Brokers’ critical advantages in arbitration About 40 percent of American investors rely... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 2015
  • Chapter

Thirty Years of Evolution in the Roles of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance

By: John C. Coates
This chapter presents evidence that shifts in the composition and roles of institutions have been at least as important, if not more so, than aggregate increases in institutional ownership. Over the past 30 years, institutions have come to play more varied roles in... View Details
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  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

estate company—they have a lot of buildings,” says MarcAntonio Awada, head of research and data science at the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3). For an investor looking for an edge, the distinction could be critical.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail
  • 15 Feb 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting

Keywords: by Erik Stafford; Banking; Financial Services
  • October–November 2019
  • Article

A New Perspective on Post-Earnings-Announcement-Drift: Using a Relative Drift Measure

By: Michael Clement, Joonho Lee and Kevin Ow Yong
Prior research finds that there is a delayed reaction to both analyst-based earnings surprises and random-walk-based earnings surprises. Focusing on the market reaction from the post-announcement window, prior studies show that analyst-based drift is larger than random... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Financial Reporting; Market Timing; Behavioral Finance
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  • April 2010 (Revised May 2017)
  • Case

Tremblant Capital Group

By: Robin Greenwood
Brett Barakett, CEO and founder of Tremblant Capital Group, a New York–based hedge fund, must decide what to do with his fund's position in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, which has dropped in value by more than 40% in recent months. Tremblant is a hedge fund that... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Investment Funds; Consumer Behavior; Competitive Advantage; Financial Services Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • October 2021
  • Case

(180) Days of Quibi

By: David J. Collis and Terrence Shu
Mobile streaming app Quibi was ready to take the entertainment world by storm at its April 2020 launch. Backed by $1.75 billion, influential investors from Hollywood to Wall Street eagerly anticipated early success for this brainchild of Meg Whitman, former CEO of... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Strategy; Business Model; Business Startups; Mobile Technology
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  • Teaching Interest

Information in Financial Markets (Econ 970, Spring 2016)

Second-year undergraduate course covering various aspects of information propagation in financial markets. The course is divided into four units. We begin by covering canonical pricing anomalies that illustrate the importance of information distribution and... View Details
  • June 2021
  • Article

Does the Freedom of Information Act Foil the Securities and Exchange Commission's Intent to Keep Investigations Confidential?

By: Braiden Coleman, Kenneth Merkley, Brian Miller and Joseph Pacelli
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has a long-standing policy to keep formal investigations confidential. In this study, we examine the extent to which compliance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) provides investors with information about ongoing SEC... View Details
Keywords: Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC) Investigations; Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA); Exemption Denials
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  • May 2010
  • Supplement

Tremblant Capital Group Exhibits (CW)

By: Robin Greenwood
Brett Barakett, CEO and founder of Tremblant Capital Group, a New York-based hedge fund, must decide what to do with his fund's position in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, which has dropped in value by more than 40 percent in recent months. Tremblant is a hedge fund... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Stocks; Investment Funds; Consumer Behavior; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; New York (state, US)
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  • Research Summary

Understanding and Managing Information Intermediaries

Brian Bushee is investigating whether information intermediaries such as institutional investors and financial analysts are sophisticated and efficient users of accounting information and whether these intermediaries' decisions influence the choices made by... View Details

    When Can the Market Identify Stale News?

    Why do investors react to old information? We conjecture that it is cognitively difficult to identify old content combined from multiple sources. We use a unique dataset of news passing through the Bloomberg terminal to differentiate "recombination" stories that draw... View Details
    • 14 Oct 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments

    Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Erik Stafford
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Private and Public Disclosures in Countries with Weak Institutional Environments: Evidence from Shanghai-Hong Kong Connect

    By: Aaron Yoon
    I study firms’ use of disclosure to build investor confidence when they operate in a market where the institutions that support the supply of credible information are weak. Using the announcement of a regulation that allowed foreigners to invest in select Shanghai... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Reputation; Institutional Investing; Trust
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    • 05 Jul 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Analyst Disagreement, Forecast Bias and Stock Returns

    Keywords: by Anna Scherbina; Financial Services
    • March 2020
    • Case

    A Tower for the People: 425 Park Avenue

    By: John Macomber, Joseph G. Allen and Emily Jones
    Healthy buildings and superior air quality are increasingly important since people now spend so much time indoors. Indoor spaces drive performance and productivity. Commercial real estate landlords and investors are responding to the demands of sophisticated tenants... View Details
    Keywords: Health And Wellness; Real Estate; Sustainability; Health; Pollution; Buildings and Facilities; Performance Productivity; Finance; Real Estate Industry; New York (city, NY)
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