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      • February 2023
      • Supplement

      The Big Blue (B): Evolution

      By: Boris Vallee and Sean Bracken
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      Vallee, Boris, and Sean Bracken. "The Big Blue (B): Evolution." Harvard Business School Supplement 223-062, February 2023.
      • October 2022
      • Case

      Masdar City: Aiming for Sustainable and Profitable Real Estate

      By: Boris Vallee and Fares Khrais
      Masdar City broke ground in 2008 and was conceived by the Abu Dhabi government to be an international beacon of innovation in sustainable energy and real estate. It was also to be a profitable investment for the government. At first glance, the two goals pulled in...  View Details
      Keywords: Analysis; Green Building; Business Growth And Maturation; Decisions; Public Sector; Financial Crisis; Construction; Climate Change; Green Technology; Borrowing And Debt; Corporate Finance; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Cost Of Capital; Equity; REIT; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Innovation; Growth And Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Urban Development; Middle East; United Arab Emirates; Sustainable Cities; Green Buildings; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financing and Loans; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Abu Dhabi
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      Vallee, Boris, and Fares Khrais. "Masdar City: Aiming for Sustainable and Profitable Real Estate." Harvard Business School Case 223-036, October 2022.
      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Can Finance Save the World? Measurement and Effects of Coal Divestment Policies by Banks

      By: Daniel Green and Boris Vallée
      We study whether divestment policies are an effective tool to address climate change, using coal lending bans by banks around the world as a laboratory. In contrast to theories arguing divestment is ineffective because capital is highly subsitutable, we find large...  View Details
      Keywords: Coal Power; Climate Change; Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Financing and Loans; Energy Industry; Banking Industry
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      Green, Daniel, and Boris Vallée. "Can Finance Save the World? Measurement and Effects of Coal Divestment Policies by Banks." Working Paper, August 2022.
      • June 2022
      • Teaching Note

      A Case in Point: Shared Home Equity

      By: Daniel Green, Boris Vallee and Sean Bracken
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 221-026.  View Details
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      Green, Daniel, Boris Vallee, and Sean Bracken. "A Case in Point: Shared Home Equity." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 222-090, June 2022.
      • April 2022
      • Teaching Note

      Big Blue: Starting a Real Estate Firm

      By: Boris Vallée and Sean Bracken
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 222-036.  View Details
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      Vallée, Boris, and Sean Bracken. "Big Blue: Starting a Real Estate Firm." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 222-080, April 2022.
      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Fintech to the (Worker) Rescue: Earned Wage Access and Employee Retention

      By: Jose Murillo, Boris Vallee and Dolly Yu
      Using novel data from a Mexican FinTech firm, we study the usage by workers of earned wages access, an innovative financial service offered by firms to their employees as a benefit. We find usage to be significant and concentrated towards the end of the pay cycle. We...  View Details
      Keywords: Fintech; Present Bias; Earned Wage Access; Wages; Employees; Retention; Well-being; Mexico
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      Murillo, Jose, Boris Vallee, and Dolly Yu. "Fintech to the (Worker) Rescue: Earned Wage Access and Employee Retention." Working Paper, March 2022.
      • October 2021 (Revised April 2022)
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      The Big Blue: Starting a Real Estate Firm

      By: Boris Vallee and Nikodem Szumilo
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      Vallee, Boris, and Nikodem Szumilo. "The Big Blue: Starting a Real Estate Firm." Harvard Business School Case 222-036, October 2021. (Revised April 2022.)
      • September 2021
      • Teaching Note

      Migrante: Using Tech to Provide Financial Inclusion to Immigrants

      By: Boris Vallée and Mauricio Larrain
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 221-108.  View Details
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      Vallée, Boris, and Mauricio Larrain. "Migrante: Using Tech to Provide Financial Inclusion to Immigrants." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 222-020, September 2021.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      What Drives the Finance Academia Wage Premium?

      By: Claire Célérier, Boris Vallée and Alexey Vasilenko
      This paper documents the existence of a significant wage finance premium in academia, and investigates its underlying mechanism. By exploiting an extensive dataset covering wages, publications and socio-demographics for 60,000 public-university faculty from all fields,...  View Details
      Keywords: Finance Wage Premium; Finance Academia; Wages; Higher Education
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      Célérier, Claire, Boris Vallée, and Alexey Vasilenko. "What Drives the Finance Academia Wage Premium?" Working Paper, September 2021.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      The Price Effects of Innovative Security Design

      By: Boris Vallée, Gordon Liao and Claire Célérier
      This paper investigates the effects of the issuance of retail products with non-linear payoffs on option prices. For a given underlying asset, when the outstanding volume of products embedding a short-put position increases, implied volatility at the corresponding...  View Details
      Keywords: Security Design; Dividend; Options; Structured Products; Market Segmentation; Financial Instruments; Design; Volatility; Markets; Segmentation
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      Vallée, Boris, Gordon Liao, and Claire Célérier. "The Price Effects of Innovative Security Design." Working Paper, August 2021.
      • July 2021
      • Case

      Migrante: Using Tech to Provide Financial Inclusion to Immigrants

      By: Boris Vallee and Mauricio Larrain
      Keywords: Chile
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      Vallee, Boris, and Mauricio Larrain. "Migrante: Using Tech to Provide Financial Inclusion to Immigrants." Harvard Business School Case 221-108, July 2021.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      FinTech Lending and Cashless Payments

      By: Pulak Ghosh, Boris Vallée and Yao Zeng
      This study provides a new perspective to understand the rise and future potential of FinTech lending by linking it to the informational role of cashless payments. We uncover both theoretically and empirically a synergy between FinTech lending and cashless payments....  View Details
      Keywords: Fintech; Lending; Payments; Data Sharing; Financing and Loans; Information Technology; Banks and Banking; Business Model
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      Ghosh, Pulak, Boris Vallée, and Yao Zeng. "FinTech Lending and Cashless Payments." Working Paper, February 2021. (Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Finance.)
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      The Effects of Local Government Financial Distress: Evidence from Toxic Loans

      By: Boris Vallée and Julien Sauvagnat
      We examine the response from both local governments and their voters to a sudden increase in public debt burden. We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the ex post cost of toxic loans, a notorious financial innovation adopted by a large number of local governments....  View Details
      Keywords: Public Debt; Public Investments; Political Contestation; Toxic Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Investment; Public Sector; Government and Politics; Local Range; Financing and Loans
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      Vallée, Boris, and Julien Sauvagnat. "The Effects of Local Government Financial Distress: Evidence from Toxic Loans." Working Paper, February 2021.
      • October 2020 (Revised July 2022)
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      A Case in Point: Shared Home Equity

      By: Daniel Green, Boris Vallee, Sid Beaumaster and Yang (Dolly) Yu
      Keywords: Real Estate
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      Green, Daniel, Boris Vallee, Sid Beaumaster, and Yang (Dolly) Yu. "A Case in Point: Shared Home Equity." Harvard Business School Case 221-026, October 2020. (Revised July 2022.)
      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Complexity in Loan Contracts

      By: Victoria Ivashina and Boris Vallée
      Using novel data on 1,240 credit agreements from the leveraged loan market, we propose simple measures of contractual complexity based on clauses qualifying negative covenants. We document a high average level of contractual complexity and significant heterogeneity....  View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Loans; Loan Contracts; Debt Covenants; Carve-out; Creditor Governance; LBO; Credit; Agreements and Arrangements; Leveraged Buyouts
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      Ivashina, Victoria, and Boris Vallée. "Complexity in Loan Contracts." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 27316, June 2020. (Revised June 2022.)
      • February 2020
      • Case

      Seso Global: Building a Blockchain-enabled Property Marketplace in Nigeria

      By: Boris Vallee and Yang (Dolly) Yu
      The mutual aspiration of addressing the housing shortage and improving real estate market efficiency led Daniel and Phillip to co-found Seso Global in 2017. Seso Global developed a unique integrated platform to streamline and rationalize the process of acquiring and...  View Details
      Keywords: Fintech; Blockchain; Developing Markets; Entrepreneurial Management; Financing and Loans; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Property; Growth and Development Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Real Estate Industry; Africa; Nigeria
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      Vallee, Boris, and Yang (Dolly) Yu. "Seso Global: Building a Blockchain-enabled Property Marketplace in Nigeria." Harvard Business School Case 220-055, February 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Employment Effects of Alleviating Financing Frictions: Worker-level Evidence from a Loan Guarantee Program

      By: Jean-Noël Barrot, Thorsten Martin, Julien Sauvagnat and Boris Vallée
      Keywords: Labor; France
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      Barrot, Jean-Noël, Thorsten Martin, Julien Sauvagnat, and Boris Vallée. "Employment Effects of Alleviating Financing Frictions: Worker-level Evidence from a Loan Guarantee Program." Working Paper, February 2020. (Revise and Resubmit at the Review of Financial Studies.)
      • October 2019
      • Article

      Returns to Talent and the Finance Wage Premium

      By: Boris Vallée and Claire Célérier
      To study the role of talent in finance workers' pay, we exploit a special feature of the French higher education system. Wage returns to talent have been significantly higher and have risen faster in finance since the 1980s than in other sectors. Both wage returns to...  View Details
      Keywords: Compensation; Finance; Compensation and Benefits; Wages; Banking Industry
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      Vallée, Boris, and Claire Célérier. "Returns to Talent and the Finance Wage Premium." Review of Financial Studies 32, no. 10 (October 2019): 4005–4040.
      • September 2019
      • Article

      Contingent Capital Trigger Effects: Evidence from Liability Management Exercises

      By: Boris Vallée
      This paper investigates the so called liability management exercises by European banks, which bear comparable effects to triggering contingent capital. I first explore the determinants of these exercises. I then study market reactions to these operations as well as...  View Details
      Keywords: Contingent Capital; Financial Distress; Regulatory Capital; Financial Institutions; Legal Liability; Management; Banking Industry; Europe
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      Vallée, Boris. "Contingent Capital Trigger Effects: Evidence from Liability Management Exercises." Review of Corporate Finance Studies 8, no. 2 (September 2019): 235–259.
      • May 2019
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      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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      Vallée, Boris, and Yao Zeng. "Marketplace Lending: A New Banking Paradigm?" Review of Financial Studies 32, no. 5 (May 2019): 1939–1982.
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