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 Development of Central Bank Digital Currency in China: An Analysis
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has launched an ambitious project to develop a digital currency for use in domestic, retail transactions, and is, by...
Network Risk and Key Players: A Structural Analysis of Interbank Liquidity
Journal of Financial Economics, 141(3), 831-859
Why we don’t write more papers on political finance
Despite the commonly held views of economists on regulatory capture, our profession has been much more hesitant in recognising similar conflicts of...
Rebooting UK financial regulation for the post-Brexit world
Recognising the critical role that financial markets will play in the success of the UK’s post-Brexit economy, the Treasury is now engaged in a review...
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...
Epidemic Exposure, Fintech Adoption, and the Digital Divide
We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage within and across countries and if so who participates in this shift...
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...
Epidemic exposure, fintech adoption, and the digital divide
Although epidemics are frequently cited as inducing changes in economic behaviour and accelerating technological and behavioural trends, there may be...
CEO Compensation: Evidence From the Field
We survey directors and investors on the objectives, constraints, and determinants of CEO pay. 67% of directors would sacrifice shareholder value to...
Shareholder Liability and Bank Failure
Does enhanced shareholder liability reduce bank failure? We compare the performance of around 4,200 state-regulated banks of similar size in...
Reducing the compliance costs of regulation
In much of the world, property sales are highly regulated and expensive. Using World Bank data, this column shows that while regulators and...
