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- September 2021
- Article
Perceptions on Undertaking Regular Asymptomatic Self-testing for COVID-19 Using Lateral Flow Tests: A Qualitative Study of University Students and Staff
By: Marta Wanat, Mary Logan, Jennifer A. Hirst, Charles Vicary, Joseph J. Lee, Rafael Perera, Irene Tracey, Gordon Duff, Peter Tufano, Thomas Fanshawe, Lazaro Mwandigha, Brian D. Nicholson, Sarah Tonkin-Crine and Richard Hobbs
Objectives: Successful implementation of asymptomatic testing programmes using lateral flow tests (LFTs) depends on several factors, including feasibility, acceptability and how people act on test results. We aimed to examine experiences of university students...
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- Winter 2020
- Article
Training Leaders to Win Wars and Forge Peace: Lessons from History
By: P. Tufano
- 2017
- Article
Advice in Defined Contribution Plans
By: P. Tufano, Gordon Clark and Maurizio Fiaschetti
- October 2015
- Article
Debt Literacy, Financial Experiences, and Overindebtedness
By: Annamaria Lusardi and Peter Tufano
- March 2015
- Article
The Economic Crisis and Medical Care Usage: Comparative Evidence from Five High-Income Countries
By: Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel Schneider and Peter Tufano
- 2015
- Chapter
Road Signs for Business and Business Education: Navigating the Geography of Social Value Creation
By: Peter Tufano and John D. Macomber
- September 2012
- Case
BASIX (Abridged)
By: Shawn Cole and Peter Tufano
BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, weather insurance pays if measured rainfall during the growing season falls below a pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah,...
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Keywords:
Cost vs Benefits;
Microfinance;
Household;
Risk Management;
Insurance;
Banking Industry;
India
- April 2012
- Article
Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures
By: Dennis Campbell, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Peter Tufano
Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure resulting from excessive overdraft activity. Consumers who have accounts involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to...
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- 2012
- Article
Live Prices and Stale Quantities: T+1 Accounting and Mutual Fund Mispricing
By: P. Tufano, Michael Quinn and Ryan D. Taliaferro
- 2010
- Working Paper
A Brief Postwar History of U.S. Consumer Finance
By: Andrea Ryan, Gunnar Trumbull and Peter Tufano
This article describes the consumer finance sector in the US since World War II. We first define the sector in terms of the functions delivered by firms (payments, savings/investing, borrowing, managing risk, and providing advice.) We provide time series evidence on...
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- 2010
- Working Paper
The Economic Crisis and Medical Care Usage
By: Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel Schneider and Peter Tufano
We use a unique, nationally representative cross-national dataset to document the reduction in individuals' usage of routine non-emergency medical care in the midst of the economic crisis. A substantially larger fraction of Americans have reduced medical care than have...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Health Care and Treatment;
France;
Germany;
Great Britain;
Canada;
United States
- February 2010
- Supplement
Lending Club case exhibits (CW)
By: Peter Tufano
A new entrant in the nascent online peer lending space, Lending Club must decide whether or not to register with the SEC. Lending Club provided a platform through which individual borrowers could receive loans funded by individuals who chose to invest in them. The...
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- February 2010
- Supplement
Valuing Visa? Priceless (CW)
By: Peter Tufano
Students must determine whether or not Visa, which had an IPO one month prior, is a good investment. The case provides an overview of multisided platform businesses and the payments industry in general. Visa's business model and economics are reviewed.
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- February 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Lending Club
By: Peter Tufano
A new entrant in the nascent online peer lending space, Lending Club must decide whether or not to register with the SEC. Lending Club provided a platform through which individual borrowers could receive loans funded by individuals who chose to invest in them. The...
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- October 2009
- Article
Managing Risk in the New World
Five experts gathered recently to discuss the future of enterprise risk management: Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, who with his colleague David Norton developed the balanced scorecard; Mikes, an assistant professor at HBS who studies...
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- July 2009 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Blue Ocean or Stormy Waters? Buying Nix Check Cashing
By: Peter Tufano
Kinecta Federal Credit Union has the opportunity to purchase Nix Check Cashing as part of their "blue ocean" strategy to reach the financially underserved and increase credit union membership and deposits. But they face financial as well as reputational risk. Check...
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- July 2009
- Supplement
Spreadsheet Supplement to Blue Ocean or Stormy Waters? Buying Nix Check Cashing (CW)
By: Peter Tufano
These spreadsheets will allow students to analyze financials for Kinecta Federal Credit Union and Nix Check Cashing. They also provide insight into the banking and AFS markets in which both organizations operate.
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- May 2009
- Supplement
The World Food Programme during the Global Food Crisis (B)
By: Anette Mikes, Peter Tufano, Eric D. Werker and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
- February 2009
- Background Note
An Introduction to Consumer Credit
By: Peter Tufano
This note reviews a variety of shorter-term consumer credit products in the U.S. with an emphasis on the types of products that low- and moderate-income consumers use. Included here are the following: credit cards, bank overdraft products, payday lending, personal...
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