High-frequency Trading in the Stock Market and the Costs of Option Market Making
Using a comprehensive panel of 2,969,829 stock-day data provided by the Securities and Exchange Commission (MIDAS), we find that HFT activity in the...
Municipal Bond Insurance and the U.S. Drinking Water Crisis
We show that the collapse of the municipal bond insurance industry plays an important, but previously overlooked, role in driving regional variation...
A Theory of Socially Responsible Investment
We characterize necessary conditions for socially responsible investors to impact firm behavior in a setting in which firm production generates social...
Multi-Asset Noisy Rational Expectations Equilibrium with Contingent Claims
We study a noisy rational expectations equilibrium in a multi-asset economy populated by informed and uninformed investors and noise traders. The...
Blockchain Analysis of the Bitcoin Market
In this paper, we provide detailed analyses of the Bitcoin network and its main participants. We build a novel database using a large number of public...
Cleansing by Tight Credit: Rational Cycles and Endogenous Lending Standards
Endogenous cycles are generated by the two-way interaction between lenders’ behavior in the credit market and production fundamentals. When lenders...
Information, Market Power and Welfare
We study a financial market in which agents with interdependent values bid for a risky asset. Some agents are privately informed of their own value...
The Wall Street Stampede: Exit as Governance with Interacting Blockholders
The growth of the asset management industry has made it commonplace for firms to have multiple institutional blockholders. In such firms, the strength...
Margin Trading and Leverage Management
We use granular data covering regulated (brokerage-financed) and unregulated (shadow-financed) margin trading during the 2015 market turmoil in China...
Why Don’t Most Mutual Funds Short Sell?
An intriguing observation in the US mutual fund industry is that most equity funds do not short sell, even though virtually all regulatory...
Informed Trading in Government Bond Markets
Using comprehensive administrative data from the UK, we examine trading by different investor types in government bond markets. Our sample covers...
Dark Trading and Alternative Execution Priority Rules
Traders’ choice between lit and dark trading venues depends on market conditions, which are affected by execution priority rules in the dark pool...
Sustainability in a Risky World
This paper studies the restrictions on consumption, portfolio choice, and social discounting implied by a sustainability constraint, that utility...
Factor Demand and Factor Returns
A mutual fund’s demand for a pricing factor, measured by the loading of the fund’s returns on the factor’s returns, is persistent over time. When...
Extrapolative Bubbles and Trading Volume
We propose an extrapolative model of bubbles to explain the sharp rise in prices and volume observed in historical financial bubbles. The model...
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...
