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Call for Papers: 2nd London Political Finance (POLFIN) Workshop
Submission deadline: 18th April 2021
Event date: 24th-25th June 2021

Mariassunta Giannetti (SSE)
Who Lends Before Banking Crises? Evidence from the International Syndicated Loan Market
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Latest Publications
The Role of Sentiment in the Economy: 1920 to 1934
This paper investigates the role of sentiment in the US macro economy from 1920 to 1934. We use 2.4 million digitized articles from the Wall St...
Shaping Africa’s Post-Covid Recovery
With the exception of some flashpoints in Northern and Southern Africa, the continent has been largely spared from the direct health effect of Covid...
Stake-holder Firms and the Reform of Local Public Finance in China
Since 1978 China has developed strongly using a particular form of capitalism which has relied upon close relations between private enterprise and the...
Managerial Response to Shareholder Empowerment: Evidence from Majority- voting Legislation Changes
This paper studies how managers react to shareholder empowerment that makes the votes on shareholder proposals regarding majority-voting director...