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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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
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Performance-Induced CEO Turnover
The Review of Financial Studies, 34 (2), 569-617
All publications
Gender Legal Reform in Zimbabwe: Wanting
Zimbabwe has introduced some legal reforms towards women’s rights in the first three dozen years since its independence in 1980, though these changes...
Personality Differences and Investment Decision-Making
We survey thousands of affluent American investors to examine the relationship between personalities and investment decisions. The Big Five...
Options-based systemic risk, financial distress, and macroeconomic downturns
Journal of Financial Markets, 100834
Bank Presence and Health
This paper demonstrates that increasing bank presence in underserved areas can substantially improve households’ health. I apply a regression...
Towards a new tax system in Ukraine
Ukraine’s tax system functions primarily on the basis of unofficial rules of tax collection. This divergence between law and practice predates Russia...
Gender Legal Reforms in Zambia: Motivated by International Conventions
In 2023, Zambia ranked 17th among African countries on the World Bank’s Women Business and the Law index, a notable decline over a half century. The...
Latent Fragility: Conditioning Banks' Joint Probability of Default on the Financial Cycle
We propose the CoJPoD, a novel framework explicitly linking the cross-sectional and cyclical dimensions of systemic risk. In this framework, banking...
A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers
We develop a two-country model in which currency and bond markets are populated by different investor clienteles, and segmentation is partly overcome...
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Corporate Capture of Blockchain Governance
Review of Financial Studies, 36 (4), 1364–1407
Passive Investing and the Rise of Mega-Firms
We study how passive investing affects asset prices. Flows into passive funds raise disproportionately the stock prices of the economy’s largest firms...
Does Board Size Matter?
This paper uses legal board size requirements to test whether board size affects firm performance and value. Since 1976, the minimum size of German...
Delegated Blocks
Will asset managers with large amounts of capital and high risk-bearing capacity hold large blocks and monitor aggressively? Both block size and...
The case against aggressive government action on crypto
The financial regulators have recently taken an active interest in cryptocurrencies, more than a decade after their law enforcement counterparts did...
What Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse tell us about financial regulations
The downfall of Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse has exposed failures in how we regulate the financial system. This column argues that the...
Green Capital Requirements
We study bank capital requirements as a tool to address financial risks and externalities caused by carbon emissions. Capital regulation can...
