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Professional Networks and their Coevolution with Executive Careers: Evidence from Europe and North America
(2019-02-04)
This paper examines how networks of professional contacts contribute to the development of the careers of executives of North American and European companies. We build a dynamic model of career progression in which career ...
Monetary Policy and the Cost of Wage Rigidity: Evidence from the Stock Market
(2018-01-01)
Using a unique confidential contract level dataset merged with firm-level asset price data, we find robust evidence that firms' stock market valuations and employment levels respond more to monetary policy announcements ...
What Drives Banks' Geographic Expansion? The Role of Locally Non-Diversifiable Risk
(2019-03-06)
We show that banks that are facing relatively high locally non-diversifiable risks in their home region expand more across states than banks that do not face such risks following branching deregulation in the United States ...
Financial Constraints and Corporate EnvironmentalResponsibility
(2018-09-13)
This paper analyzes the effect of financial constraints on firms' corporate social responsibility. Exploiting heterogeneity in firms' exposure to a monetary policy shock in the U.S., which reduced financial constraints for ...
High-Frequency Trading and Price Informativeness
(2019-03-01)
We study how the informativeness of stock prices changes with the presence of high-frequency trading (HFT). Our estimate is based on the staggered start of HFT participation in a panel of international exchanges. With HFT ...
High-Frequency Trading and Price Informativeness
(2019-03-09)
We study how stock price informativeness changes with the presence of high-frequency trading (HFT). Our estimate is based on the staggered start of HFT participation in a panel of international exchanges. With HFT presence ...
Financing Conditions and Toxic Emissions
(2019-07-27)
Exploiting heterogeneity in U.S. firms' exposure to an unconventional monetary policy shock that reduced debt financing costs, I identify the impact of financing conditions on firms' toxic emissions. I find robust evidence ...
Rigid Wages and Contracts: Time- versus State-Dependent Wages in the Netherlands
(2019-09-01)
We study nominal wage rigidity in the Netherlands using administrative data, which has three key features: (1) high-frequency (monthly), (2) high-quality (administrative records), and (3) high coverage (the universe of ...
Horizontal Industry Relationships and Return Predictability
(2019-08-09)
It has been documented that vertical customer-supplier links between industries are the basis for strong cross-sectional stock return predictability (Menzly and Ozbas (2010)). We show that robust predictability also arises ...
The Collateralizability Premium
(2019-10-09)
A common prediction of macroeconomic models of credit market frictions is that the tightness of financial constraints is countercyclical. As a result, theory implies a negative collateralizability premium, that is, capital ...