Publications

In many bilateral transactions, the seller fears being underpaid because its outside option is better known to the buyer. We rationalize a variety of...

Private equity sponsors pay special attention to designing capital structure, making buyouts an interesting setting for examining capital structure...

We use the recent introduction of biofuels to study the effect of industry factors on the relationships between wholesale commodity prices...

We propose that an active takeover market provides incentives by offering acquisition opportunities to successful managers. This allows firms to...

It is established that the standard principal-agent model cannot explain the structure of commonly used CEO compensation contracts if CRRA preferences...

An important recent theoretical literature argues that the threat of exit can represent an effective form of governance when the blockholder is a...

We study a broad class of asset pricing models in which the stochastic discount factor (SDF) can be factorized into an observable component and a...

We develop an optimal dynamic contracting theory of overpay for jobs in which moral hazard is a key concern, such as investment banking. Overpaying...

Open letter by the international Euro-nomics academic group (www.euro-nomics.com), composed of Markus Brunnermeier, Luis Garicano, Philip R. Lane...

Busts after periods of prolonged prosperity have been found to be catastrophic. Financial institutions increase their leverage and shift their...

This paper develops a dynamic model of financial institutions that borrow short-term and invest into long-term marketable assets. Because such...

Mutual funds hold large blocks of shares in many major corporations. Practitioners and regulators alike have been concerned that mutual funds use...

We analyze credit default swap settlement auctions theoretically and evaluate them empirically. In our theoretical analysis, we show that the current...