Discussion Papers

We study a financial market in which agents with interdependent values bid for a risky asset. Some agents are privately informed of their own value...

The growth of the asset management industry has made it commonplace for firms to have multiple institutional blockholders. In such firms, the strength...

We use granular data covering regulated (brokerage-financed) and unregulated (shadow-financed) margin trading during the 2015 market turmoil in China...

An intriguing observation in the US mutual fund industry is that most equity funds do not short sell, even though virtually all regulatory...

Using comprehensive administrative data from the UK, we examine trading by different investor types in government bond markets. Our sample covers...

We survey directors and investors on the objectives, constraints, and determinants of CEO pay. 67% of directors would sacrifice shareholder value to...

Does enhanced shareholder liability reduce bank failure? We compare the performance of around 4,200 state-regulated banks of similar size in...

Traders’ choice between lit and dark trading venues depends on market conditions, which are affected by execution priority rules in the dark pool...

We demonstrate that the co-existence of different motives for liquidity preferences profoundly affects the efficiency of financial intermediation...

We study the market for CEOs of large publicly-traded US firms, analyze new CEOs’ prior connections to the hiring firm, and explore how hiring choices...

Stochastic processes is one of the key operations research tools for analysis of complex phenomenon. This paper has a unique application to the study...

This paper studies the restrictions on consumption, portfolio choice, and social discounting implied by a sustainability constraint, that utility...

How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights, including those of possession and transfer, influence the shape of cities...

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...

We propose an extrapolative model of bubbles to explain the sharp rise in prices and volume observed in historical financial bubbles. The model...

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...