This programme examines how different types of agents interact in financial markets; how asset prices are formed and relate to economic fundamentals; how price movements impact firms’ investment and the macro-economy; and how regulatory policies affect market outcomes and economic welfare. Part of the research in this programme is conducted within the Paul Woolley Centre (PWC). Research at the PWC departs from the Arrow-Debreu view of frictionless markets and emphasizes the role of financial institutions and their managers’ incentives in influencing asset prices and the allocation of capital in the economy, and in causing occasional mispricing and misallocation. PWC research focuses primarily on the asset management sector.
The Programme Director is Dimitri Vayanos.
Paul Woolley Centre
Latest Publications
Unintended Consequences of Holding Dollar Assets
We examine a novel mechanism whereby the US dollar’s global dominance can have a large, unexpected impact on foreign Treasury yields in crisis periods...
Scale or Yield? A Present-Value Identity
We propose a loglinear present-value identity in which investment ("scale"), profitability ("yield"), and discount rates determine a firm’s market-to...
How the financial authorities can take advantage of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence will both be of considerable help to the financial authorities and bring new challenges. This column argues the authorities...