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  • 06 Aug 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole; Banking
  • 03 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality?

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole; Banking
  • 10 Apr 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Where Does it Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson & Peter Tufano; Financial Services
  • 14 Jan 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Smart Money: The Effect of Education, Cognitive Ability, and Financial Literacy on Financial Market Participation

Keywords: by Shawn Cole & Gauri Kartini Shastry; Education; Financial Services
  • 15 May 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Money or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?

Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson & Bilal Zia; Financial Services
  • 04 Feb 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to Environmental Sustainability. Past Roads and Future Prospects

Keywords: by Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Shawn A. Cole, John Ehrenfeld, Andrew A. King, and Auden Schendler
  • 30 Oct 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Voters Appreciate Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole, Andrew Healy & Eric D. Werker
  • 05 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

fund.” The group surveyed 13 fund managers about 28 funds, and conducted qualitative interviews with six anchor investors. The paper was written by Shawn Cole, the John G. McLean Professor at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 15 May 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India

Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert Townsend & James Vickery
  • 13 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

economics," says Shawn A. Cole, an associate professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. "A frequent criticism of bankers in the recent crisis is that they took a lot of incentive pay... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 22 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?

that, then that company has more capital and can do things that it couldn't otherwise do.” Doing well by doing good is an important trend in business generally and venture capital specifically, with the sphere of impact investing no... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 2008
  • Chapter

Where Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained

By: Shawn A. Cole, Peter Tufano and John Thompson
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Where Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained

By: Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson and Peter Tufano
In this paper, we analyze the spending decisions of over 1.5 million Americans who vary in their degree of revealed credit constraints. Specifically, we analyze how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Credit; Personal Finance; Spending; Taxation; Consumer Behavior; United States
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  • Teaching Interest

Executive Education

By: Shawn A. Cole

Shawn Cole regularly teaches executive education. He has taught in the ACCION microfinance in the HBS-ACCION Microfinance Program on Strategic Leadership, View Details

  • 19 May 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

Keywords: by Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth & John J. Siegfried
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

Sustainability. Past Roads and Future Prospects By: Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, Shawn A. Cole, John Ehrenfeld, Andrew A. King, and Auden Schendler Abstract— This working paper... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mtripsas/articles/Benner%20Tripsas%20SMJ%20forthcoming.pdf Evidence from the Firm: A New Approach to Understanding Corruption Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Anh Tran Publication:In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

capturing value in modular systems. We illustrate each of the major strategies with examples from practice. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1971203 The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

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