The Micro and Macro Dynamics of Capital Flows
We study empirically and theoretically the effects of international financial flows on resource allocation. Using the universe of firms in Hungary, we...
Margins as Canaries in the Coal Mine
Central clearing counterparties (CCPs) manage counterparty risk by requiring clearing members to post margins. This paper explores the role of margins...
How Reform Happens
What determines whether and how regulations are reformed? We use a newly constructed data set of 3,590 successful and failed regulatory reforms in 189...
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The Drivers and Implications of Retail Margin Trading
Journal of Finance, 81 (4), 2217-2270
Stablecoins: Policy, sovereignty and backstops
No jurisdiction can ignore stablecoins. They can be banned outright only in the most effectively authoritarian countries, or accommodated and even...
The geopolitics of stablecoins
Stablecoins are private digital money pegged to a fiat currency, overwhelmingly the US dollar. Dollar stablecoins reinforce American monetary and...
Stablecoins are run-optimised instruments
Stablecoins are private digital money designed to trade at par with a fiat currency, usually the US dollar. This column argues that stablecoins are...
Shareholder Empowerment and Ownership Structure in a Free-Contracting Environment
We study how firms choose to allocate control over strategic corporate decisions between shareholders and management in a historical setting where...
Price discovery with a richer market microstructure noise
We show that the standard econometric framework typically yields inconsistent estimates of price discovery measures in the presence of richer market...
Time-varying price discovery
We formulate a price discovery model in which the price discovery measures vary either locally, say, for instance, at intervals of 30 minutes or at a...
Biased Promotions
We present a model of biased promotions in which firm size, wages, and internal labor markets are endogenously determined in a competitive labor...
Government Arrears and Corporate Policies: Lessons from a Natural Experiment
We study how late payment in public procurement affects corporate policies by analyzing a public program that unexpectedly repaid local government...
Memory and Trading
I test the predictions of human memory models in a high-stakes trading environment. Using alphabetical rankings of stocks from portfolio statements, I...