Discussion Papers

This paper estimates the effects of Say-on-Pay (SoP); a policy that increases shareholder "voice" by providing shareholders with a regular vote on...

We present a model of efficient contracting with endogenous matching and limited monitoring in which firms compete for CEOs. The model explains the...

One of the most contentious issues raised during the recent crisis has been the potentially exacerbating role played by mark-to-market accounting...

We present a model of an economy with heterogeneous banks that may be funded with uninsured deposits and equity capital. Capital serves to ameliorate...

Financial market liquidity has become increasingly fragmented across multiple trading platforms. We propose an intuitive welfare-based market quality...

The availability of credit varies over the business cycle through shifts in the leverage of financial intermediaries. Empirically, we find that...

We study the feedback from hedging mortgage portfolios on the level and volatility of interest rates. We incorporate the supply shocks resulting from...

We propose a novel measure of arbitrage activity to examine whether arbitrageurs can have a destabilizing effect in the stock market. We apply our...

This paper finds that fund herding, defined as the tendency of a mutual fund to follow past aggregate institutional trades, is an important predictor...

We explore a new mechanism through which investors take correlated shortcuts. Specifically, we exploit a regulatory provision governing firm...

This paper shows that during episodes of market turmoil 13F institutional investors with short trading horizons sell their stockholdings to a larger...

The conventional view of market timing suggests an unambiguous, negative relation between equity misvaluation and the equity share in new issues—that...

We provide novel evidence of priced correlation risk in the foreign exchange market. Currencies that perform badly (well) during periods of high...

The list of barriers to female representation in management is analogous to the list of barriers to female labor force participation. Accordingly, we...

We investigate the hypothesis that shareholder empowerment may have led to more bank bailouts during the recent financial crisis. To test this...

We study economies of scale in banking by viewing banks as combinations of financial and human capital that create rents which accrue to investors and...