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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$3.0B
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At the University of Pennsylvania, you'll find a historic, Ivy League school with highly selective admissions and a history of innovation in interdisciplinary education and scholarship. You'll also find a picturesque campus amidst a dynamic city and a world-class research institution. Today Penn is home to a diverse undergraduate student body of nearly 10,000, hailing from every state in the union and all around the globe. Admissions are among the most selective in the country and Penn consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Another 10,000 students are enrolled in Penn's 12 graduate and professional schools, which are national leaders in their fields. The Wharton School is consistently one of the nation's top three business schools. The School of Nursing is one of the two best in the U.S. The School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Education, Law School, School of Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, and Annenberg School for Communication all rank among the top 10 schools in their fields.
Number of Employees 20,000
NAICS Code Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools: 611310
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Systemic Risk And Regulation
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- 2006-01-04
Historically, much of the banking regulation that was put in place was designed to reduce systemic risk. In many countries capital regulation in the form of the Basel agreements is currently one of the most important measures to reduce systemic risk. In last few years there has been considerable growth...
Switching Costs and Adverse Selection in the Market for Credit Cards: New Evidence
BNET
- 2005-07-01
To explain persistence of credit card interest rates at relatively high levels, Calem and Mester argued that informational barriers create switching costs for high-balance customers. As evidence, using data from the 1989 Survey of Consumer Finances, they showed that these households were more likely to be rejected when applying for...
The Case Against Stock in Public Pension Funds
BNET
- 2004-11-19
Invoking a transparent accounting framework based on economics rather than actuarial and accounting traditions, Bader (2003) concludes that shifting the corporate plan investments from equities to bonds adds value for shareholders a tax arbitrage gain and for participants benefit security gain). Nonetheless, the paper shows that parallel reasoning leads to...
Do Bank Relationships Affect the Firm's Underwriter Choice in the Corporate-Bond Underwriting Market?
BNET
- 2004-08-16
This paper studies the effect of bank relationships on underwriter choice in the U.S. corporate bond underwriting market following the 1989 commercial-bank entry. The paper finds that bank relationships have positive and significant effects on a firm's underwriter choice, over and above their effects on fees. This result is sharply...
Principal-Agent Issues in Private Equity and Venture Capital
BNET
- 2004-04-01
The private equity and venture capital (PE/VC) industries have grown tremendously over the past few decades. However, there has been very few studies addressing the structural and organizational factors that have led to a larger and more efficient PE/VC industry. This paper provides general overview of the PE/VC industries and...
Employee Stock Options And The Underpricing Of Initial Public Offerings
BNET
- 2003-11-01
The central question surrounding the IPO Initial Public Offerings underpricing puzzle is why issuers are willing to sell their shares at a price that is less than what the market is willing to pay. This paper shows that a major reason why managers are willing to underprice shares at IPO...
The Key to Risk Management: Management
BNET
- 2003-07-24
The Barings, Daiwa Bank and Sumitomo Corp. financial debacles in the mid-1990s suggest that management failures rather than misfortune, errors, or complexity are a major source of the risk of financial debacles. These errors are systematic and are a concommittant of the structure of trading and of human nature. Risk...
Hard Days and Sleepless Nights for Private Equity Firms
BNET
- 2003-07-05
This article discusses the scenario of private equity market which is marked by little liquidity and low prices. There is little doubt that the US private equity market is experiencing tough times. But this could mean big rewards for those with the skill and resources to navigate the storm. Today's...
Actuarially Consistent Valuation of Catastrophe Derivatives
BNET
- 2003-07-01
This article investigates the valuation of insurance derivatives which facilitate the trading of insurance risks on capital markets, such as catastrophe derivatives that were traded at the Chicago Board of Trade. These instruments have to be priced relative to observed insurance premiums that are written on the same underlying risks...
Political Risk Management: A Strategic Perspective
BNET
- 2003-06-09
Sophisticated managers address political risk by employing tailored risk mitigation strategies that reflect the specific factors affecting a firm's risk profile. Insurers may therefore determine the proper scope and price more accurately and efficiently by assessing the fitness of a given political risk mitigation strategy. This paper provides a simple...
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