Influential research by members of the Financial Markets Group has been published in some of the most recognised international journals in the field.
Click to see a collection of notable FMG working papers which have been published in American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, and Review of Financial Studies.
Sustainability in a Risky World
This paper studies the restrictions on consumption, portfolio choice, and social discounting implied by a sustainability constraint, that utility...
Property Rights and Urban Form
How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights, including those of possession and transfer, influence the shape of cities...
Lending Cycles and Real Outcomes: Costs of Political Misalignment
The Economic Journal, 2021, forthcoming.
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...
US business dynamism rises
Steep falls in entrepreneurial activity were recorded in early 2020 across G7 economies. In the US, however, the creation of US startups shot up by 24...
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...
Shaping Africa’s Post-Covid Recovery
With the exception of some flashpoints in Northern and Southern Africa, the continent has been largely spared from the direct health effect of Covid...
Stake-holder Firms and the Reform of Local Public Finance in China
Since 1978 China has developed strongly using a particular form of capitalism which has relied upon close relations between private enterprise and the...
Managerial Response to Shareholder Empowerment: Evidence from Majority- voting Legislation Changes
This paper studies how managers react to shareholder empowerment that makes the votes on shareholder proposals regarding majority-voting director...
The Systemic Governance Influence of Universal Owners: Evidence From an Expectation Document
Universal owners - large institutional investors with highly diversified and long-term portfolios spanning the entire global capital market - have...
Lending Cycles and Real Outcomes: Costs of Political Misalignment
We use data on the universe of credit in Turkey to document a strong political lending cycle. State-owned banks systematically adjust their lending...
As COVID rages, bankruptcy cases fall
Bankruptcies have fallen sharply in OECD economies because of the array of COVID-related support available to businesses, as well as imposed moratoria...
Moral hazard, the fear of the markets, and how central banks responded to Covid-19
While the direct economic consequences of Covid-19 have been significant, the impact on the financial markets has been more nuanced. This column uses...
