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10 Ways to be a Better Team Player :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Categories : Communications , Ethics , Leadership , decision-making Echo Garrett is the National Practice Manager for KPMGs Financial Credit Risk practice and a Co-Founder of "Her Voice", a National Womens Organization that brings women together for local support and charitable opportunities.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Good Intentions, Bad Results: Learning from the Panic of 1826

Strategy Driven

The borrower would then sell the discounted $970 post note on the money market, also paying a discount to the post note purchaser of say $30, receiving $940 in cash. The insurance company would repay the money market investor’s post note of $970, yielding a $30 profit for both the insurance company and the investor.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

With larger volumes of data being used to analyze everything from the genome to traffic patterns and lunch choices, it is natural to ask whether big data can crack the code on small business credit risk. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant?

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The Downside of the Fed’s Increasingly Complicated Expectations Game

Harvard Business Review

Still, even Eichengreen thought the policy shift was too inconsequential to justify the market reaction. But in Martin’s day, the Federal Open Market Committee was able to make its monetary policy decisions in relative obscurity. Financial markets on the whole played a much smaller role in the economy.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

With larger volumes of data being used to analyze everything from the genome to traffic patterns and lunch choices, it is natural to ask whether big data can crack the code on small business credit risk. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant?

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What Macroeconomists Are Missing

Harvard Business Review

The rest of the reading list: " Credit Risk and the Macroeconomy: Evidence from an Estimated DSGE Model ". Stock Market Conditions and Monetary Policy in a DSGE Model for the U.S. ". " But I don't think it's logically impossible to be able to judge when asset markets are at greater risk of trouble than normal.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes.