• Gender Differences in Financial Advice 

      Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Hackethal, Andreas; Koenen, Johannes; Laudenbach, Christine (2015-03-04)
      We show that financial advisors recommend more costly products to female clients, based onminutes from about 27,000 real-world advisory meetings and client portfolio data. Funds recommended to women have higher expense ...
    • Monetary Policy and Risk Taking 

      Angeloni, Ignazio; Faia, Ester; Lo Duca, Marco (2016-05-19)
      We assess the effects of monetary policy on bank risk to verify the existence of a risk-taking channel — monetary expansions inducing banks to assume more risk. We first present VAR evidence confirming that this channel ...
    • Portfolio Similarity and Asset Liquidation in the Insurance Industry 

      Girardi, Giulio; Hanley, Kathleen Weiss; Nikolova, Stanislava; Pelizzon, Loriana; Getmansky, Mila (2018-07-30)
      An important assumption underlying the designation of some insurers as systemically important is that their overlapping portfolio holdings can result in common selling. We measure the overlap in holdings using cosine ...
    • The carrot and the stick: Bank bailouts and the disciplining role of board appointments 

      Mücke, Christian; Pelizzon, Loriana; Pezone, Vincenzo; Thakor, Anjan V. (2021-07-08)
      We empirically examine the Capital Purchase Program (CPP) used by the US government to bail out distressed banks with equity infusions during the Great Recession. We find strong evidence that a feature of the CPP - the ...