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- May 2022
- Article
Can Gambling Increase Savings? Empirical Evidence on Prize-Linked Savings Accounts
By: Shawn A. Cole, Benjamin Iverson and P. Tufano
This paper studies the adoption and impact of prize-linked savings (PLS) accounts, which offer lottery-like payouts to individual account holders in lieu of interest. Using microlevel data from a bank in South Africa, we show that PLS is attractive to a broad group of...
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- February 1, 2022
- Article
Business Schools Must Do More to Address the Climate Crisis
By: Concepción Galdón, Knut Haanaes, Daniel Halbheer, Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Katell Le Goulven, Mike Rosenberg, Peter Tufano and Amelia Whitelaw
Business schools have much to contribute to the fight against climate change. They are experts in organizational transformation, performance measurement, operations, marketing, leadership, and governance. A group of eight business schools has come together to find...
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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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- August 13, 2021
- Other Article
New Child Tax Credit Should Be a Call to Action for Banks
By: Bob Neuhaus, Daniel Schneider and Peter Tufano
- August 2, 2021
- Other Article
Missing Voices in the Child Tax Credit Frenzy—Parents
By: Peter Tufano and Daniel Schneider
- Winter 2020
- Article
Training Leaders to Win Wars and Forge Peace: Lessons from History
By: P. Tufano
- March 11, 2020
- Editorial
A Bolder Vision for Business Schools
By: P. Tufano
Business schools teach to a model that dates back to the 1950s. Given the growing demands on business to take a lead in confronting societal challenges, business schools need to update how they train business leaders and how they compete, argues Oxford’s Saïd School...
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- November 18, 2019
- Editorial
Impact Should Be Included in Promotion and Tenure Criteria
By: P. Tufano
- 2017
- Chapter
Advice in Defined Contribution Plans
By: Gordon Clark, Maurizio Fiaschetti and Peter Tufano
- 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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