Research highlights
Influential research by members of the Financial Markets Group has been published in some of the most recognised international journals in Economics and Finance, such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of Financial Studies. A sample of recent papers is below.
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Informational Black Holes in Financial Markets
Journal of Finance, 78 (6), 3099-3140
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Corporate Capture of Blockchain Governance
Review of Financial Studies, 36 (4), 1364–1407
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Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices
Journal of Political Economy, 130(12), 3146-3201
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Measuring the welfare cost of asymmetric information in consumer credit markets
Journal of Financial Economics, 146 (3), 821-840
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Heterogeneous Global Booms and Busts
American Economic Review, 112 (7), 2178-2212
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Central Bank Swap Lines: Evidence on the Lender of Last Resort
The Review of Economic Studies, 89(4), 1654–1693
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Market efficiency in the age of big data
Journal of Financial Economics, 145(1), 154-177
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Public Procurement in Law and Practice
American Economic Review, 112 (4), 1091-1117
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Exchange Rate Exposure and Firm Dynamics
The Review of Economic Studies, 89 (1), 481-514
All publications
Agency, Firm Growth, and Managerial Turnover
We study managerial incentive provision under moral hazard in a firm subject to stochastic growth opportunities. In our model, managers are dismissed...
Do Standard Corporate Governance Practices Matter in Family Firms?
We study the unique governance dynamics surrounding family ownership in a voluntary regulatory arena where we can directly observe the impact of firm...
Market Liquidity - Theory and Empirical Evidence
In this paper we survey the theoretical and empirical literature on market liquidity. We organize both literatures around three basic questions: (a)...
Liquidity and Asset Returns under Asymmetric Information and Imperfect Competition
We analyze how asymmetric information and imperfect competition affect liquidity and asset prices. Our model has three periods: agents are identical...
Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Investors and Portfolio Constraints
We study dynamic general equilibrium in one-tree and two-trees Lucas economies with one consumption good and two CRRA investors with heterogeneous...
Stock Market Tournaments
We propose a new theory of suboptimal risk-taking based on contractual externalities. We examine an industry with a continuum of firms. Each firm’s...
Investing for your own and the greater good
Most of us have been brought up to believe that free markets combined with healthy competition deliver good outcomes. We also presume that what holds...
Dynamic hedging in incomplete markets: a simple solution
Review of Financial Studies, 25 (6). pp. 1845-1896.
Transparency, Tax Pressure and Access to Finance
In choosing transparency, firms must trade off the benefits from better access to finance against the cost of a greater tax burden. We study this...
The Insufficiency of Traditional Safety Nets: What Bank Resolution Fund for Europe?
This paper analyzes the rationale for Bank Recovery and Resolution Funds (BRRFs) in the context of the present European Union’s (EU) decentralized...
Securitized Banking, Asymmetric Information, and Financial Crisis: Regulating Systemic Risk Away
We develop a model of securitized (Originate, then Distribute) lending, in which both publicly observed aggregate shocks to values of securitized loan...
Liquidity and asset returns under asymmetric information and imperfect competition
Review of Financial Studies, 25 (5). pp. 1339-1365.