Discussion Papers

This paper develops a heterogeneous firm-dynamics model to jointly study firms’ currency debt composition and investment choices. In our model...

We exploit the exogenous shock of the COVID-19 pandemic on financial markets and regulatory restrictions on dark trading to investigate how volatility...

Rank-and-file employees are becoming increasingly critical for many firms, yet we know little about how their employment dynamics matter for stock...

We propose a novel, and simple, Bayesian estimation and model selection procedure for crosssectional asset pricing. Our approach, that allows for both...

Consumption dynamics are hard to measure accurately in the data, yet they are the crucial ingredient of macro-finance asset pricing models. The...

We study the market for a risky asset with heterogeneous valuations. Agents seek to learn about their own valuation by acquiring private information...

We propose a new measure of private information in decentralised markets – connections – defined as the number of dealers with whom a client trades in...

We derive the optimal underwriting method and the quantitative IPO pricing rule that this method implies in a market with informational frictions...

We present a dynamic model featuring risk-averse investors with heterogeneous beliefs. Individual investors have stable beliefs and risk aversion, but...

We develop a new methodology to estimate the impact of a financial transaction tax (FTT) on informational efficiency, liquidity and volatility. In our...

We study the efficiency, price formation and segmentation of cryptocurrency markets. We document large, recurrent arbitrage opportunities in...

Why do countries differ in terms of their exposure to fluctuations in the global supply of credit? We argue that frictions in global intermediation...

What determines the cross-section of betas with respect to a risk factor? The act of arbitrage plays an important role. If the capital of arbitrageurs...

Empirical evidence suggests that investor protection has significant effects on ownership concentration and asset prices. We develop a dynamic asset...

Predicting stock market crashes is a focus of interest for both researchers and practitioners. Several prediction models have been developed, mostly...

We consider the market for a risky asset with heterogeneous valuations. Private information that agents have about their own valuation is reflected in...