Bond Supply, Yield Drifts, and Liquidity Provision Before Macroeconomic Announcements
UK government bond yields tend to rise in a two-day window before labor market data releases and monetary policy news. This effect, particularly...
Causal Narratives
We study causal narratives – narratives which describe a (potentially incorrect) causal relationship between variables. In a series of experiments...
Arbitrage Networks
This paper studies the general equilibrium implications of arbitrage trades in segmented financial markets. Arbitrageurs choose a category of trades...
Inferring Mutual Fund Intra-Quarter Trading - An Application to ESG Window Dressing
We develop a novel method to infer intra-quarter trading of individual mutual funds. After a mutual fund executes a trade, its reported portfolio...
Sustainable Investing in Practice: Objectives, Constraints, and Limits to Impact
We survey 509 equity portfolio managers from both traditional and sustainable funds on whether, why, and how they incorporate firms’ environmental and...
Supply and Demand and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Annual Review of Financial Economics, 16, 115 - 151
Trading Ahead of Barbarians’ Arrival at the Gate: Insider Trading on Non-Inside Information
Privately informed about firm fundamentals, corporate insiders detect activism-motivated trades better than other traders. This paper solves the model...
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Unbundling Quantitative Easing: Taking a Cue from Treasury Auctions
Journal of Political Economy, 132 (9), 3115-3172
Credibility, trust, and perception of authorities’ performance
The credibility of an institution is, almost, synonymous with how well it is trusted. This column uses survey data to examine how trust in various...
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The Gender Gap in Household Bargaining Power: A Revealed-Preference Approach
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Investor Memory and Biased Beliefs: Evidence from the Field
We survey a large representative sample of retail investors in China to elicit their memories of stock market investment and return expectations. We...
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High-frequency trading in the stock market and the costs of options market making
Journal of Financial Economics, 159, 103900