Bond Funds and Credit Risk
We show that supply-side effects arising from the bond holdings of open-end mutual funds affect corporate credit risk. In our model, funds exposed to...
Dynamic Asset-Backed Security Design
Borrowers obtain liquidity by issuing securities backed by current period payoff and resale price of a long-lived collateral asset. They are privately...
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The Wall Street stampede: Exit as governance with interacting blockholders
Journal of Financial Economics, 144(2), 433-455
SUERF Policy Note - Stylised facts on debt and financial crisis
This policy note summarizes the main empirical findings on the role of debt in financial crisis. Credit booms – on mortgage debt, debt to the non...
The loss of human capital in Ukraine
School disruptions due to war, pandemics, or natural disasters can have persistent negative effects on learning outcomes. This column estimates the...
Bankers' Pay and the Evolving Structure of US Banking
We study the evolution of pay in US bank holding companies since 1986 using a structural model of the banking firm. The model incorporates a strong...
Discounted Stochastic Games, the 3M Property and Stationary Markov Perfect Equilibria
We show that all discounted stochastic games DSGs satisfying the usual assumptions have Nash payoff selection correspondences having fixed points. Our...
Demand–Supply Imbalance Risk and Long-Term Swap Spreads
We develop a model in which long-term swap spreads are determined by end users’ demand for swaps, constrained dealers’ supply of swaps, and the risk...
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Public Procurement in Law and Practice
American Economic Review, 112 (4), 1091-1117
Epidemic Exposure, Financial Technology, and the Digital Divide
We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage and who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining...
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Extrapolative Bubbles and Trading Volume
The Review of Financial Studies, 35(4), 1682–1722
Facing the refugee challenge: a view from Moldova
The European Union and the International Monetary Fund have been deploying resources to help Moldova cope with an influx of refugees that represents...
Layered Networks, Equilibrium Dynamics, and Stable Coalitions
An important aspect of network dynamics that has been missing from our understanding of network dynamics in various applied settings is the influence...
Parameterized State-Contingent Games, 3M Minimal Nash Correspondences, and Connectedness
Under mild assumptions on primitives, we show that all parameterized state-contingent games (PSGs) have upper Caratheodory (uC) Nash (equilibrium)...
