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The Effect of Personal Financing Disruptions on Entrepreneurship
(2018-10-14)
This paper studies how disruptions to personal sources of financing, aside from commercial lending supply shocks, impair the survival and growth of small businesses. Entrepreneurs holding deposit accounts at retail banking ...
The Real Effects of Judicial Enforcement
(2018-10-31)
This paper shows that the quality of judicial enforcement has substantial real effects. I exploit a reorganization of the judicial districts in Italy as an exogenous shock to court productivity and, using an instrumental ...
Germany's Reluctance to Regulate Related Party Transactions
(2018-02-15)
Germany Inc. was an idiosyncratic form of industrial organization that put financial institutions at the center. This paper argues that the consumption of private benefits in related party transactions by these key agents ...
Effects of Government Spending on Employment: Evidence from Winners and Runners-up in Procurement Auctions
(2018-05-01)
To estimate demand for labor, we use a combination of detailed employment data and the outcomes of procurement auctions, and compare the employment of the winner of an auction with the employment of the second ranked firm ...
P2P Lending versus Banks: Cream Skimming or Bottom Fishing?
(2018-04-18)
We derive three testable predictions from a bank-P2P lender model of competition: (i) P2P lending grows when some banks are faced with exogenously higher regulatory costs, (ii) P2P loans are riskier than bank loans; and ...
Bargaining with a Bank
(2018-01-01)
This paper examines bargaining as a mechanism to resolve information problems. To guide the analysis, I develop a parsimonious model of a credit negotiation between a bank and firms with varying levels of impatience. In ...
Client Involvement in Expert Advice: Antibiotics in Finance?
(2018-07-23)
We use minutes from 17,000 financial advisory sessions and corresponding client portfolio data to study how client involvement affects advisor recommendations and portfolio outcomes. We find that advisors confronted with ...
Pricing Sin Stocks: Ethical Preference vs. Risk Aversion
(2018-06-14)
We develop a model that reproduces the average return and volatility spread between sin and non-sin stocks. Our investors do not necessarily boycott sin companies. Rather, they are open to invest in any company while trading ...
Local Peer Effects and Corporate Investment
(2018-07-07)
We examine how a firms' investment behavior affects the investment of a neighboring firm. Economic theory yields ambiguous predictions regarding the direction of firm peer effects and consistent with earlier work, we find ...
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 ...