On the Fragility of DeFi Lending
We develop a dynamic model of DeFi lending that incorporates the following key features: 1) borrowing and lending are decentralized, anonymous...
The Gap between Law and Practice in Pakistan’s Gender Reform
In the three-quarters of a century since Pakistan’s independence, parliament has adopted various laws in a bid to improve women’s legal rights. Many...
The Supply and Demand for Data Privacy: Evidence from Mobile Apps
This paper investigates how consumers and investors react to the standardized disclosure of data privacy practices. Since December 2020, Apple has...
Granular Corporate Hedging Under Dominant Currency
This paper shows that, in a world dominated by vehicle currencies, firms engaging in international operations retain currency risk and hedge it real...
Feedback Trading and Bubbles
The paper develops a model of bubbles that can be taken to the data and explain the behavior of asset prices and their statistics. We depart from the...
Gender Promotion Gaps: Career Aspirations and Workplace Discrimination
Using a representative survey of U.S. lawyers, we document a sizeable gender gap in early partnership aspirations, which explains half of the later...
Firms’ Transition to Green: Innovation versus Lobbying
Competitive challenges and regulatory uncertainty associated with the green transition should incentivize firms to innovate and to sway regulatory...
Timing Complex News to Target Attention
Investors have limited and time-varying attention. These constraints are heterogeneous across investors, which can create asymmetric information and...
The Halting Gender Reforms in Burundi
In the sixty years since its independence Burundi has taken some steps to improve the legal standing of women in the economy and society. These steps...
Gender Legal Reform in Zimbabwe: Wanting
Zimbabwe has introduced some legal reforms towards women’s rights in the first three dozen years since its independence in 1980, though these changes...
Personality Differences and Investment Decision-Making
We survey thousands of affluent American investors to examine the relationship between personalities and investment decisions. The Big Five...
Bank Presence and Health
This paper demonstrates that increasing bank presence in underserved areas can substantially improve households’ health. I apply a regression...
Gender Legal Reforms in Zambia: Motivated by International Conventions
In 2023, Zambia ranked 17th among African countries on the World Bank’s Women Business and the Law index, a notable decline over a half century. The...
Latent Fragility: Conditioning Banks' Joint Probability of Default on the Financial Cycle
We propose the CoJPoD, a novel framework explicitly linking the cross-sectional and cyclical dimensions of systemic risk. In this framework, banking...
A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers
We develop a two-country model in which currency and bond markets are populated by different investor clienteles, and segmentation is partly overcome...
Passive Investing and the Rise of Mega-Firms
We study how passive investing affects asset prices. Flows into passive funds raise disproportionately the stock prices of the economy’s largest firms...
