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The Power of ESG Ratings on Stock Markets
(2021-03-10)
This paper studies the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings on investors’ preferences and stock prices. We exploit a change in ESG rating methodology that non-linearly shifted ESG ratings for firms ...
Gender Differences in Financial Advice
(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 ...
The carrot and the stick: Bank bailouts and the disciplining role of board appointments
(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 ...
Discount rates, debt maturity, and the fiscal theory
(2021-10-12)
This paper examines how the transmission of government portfolio risk arising from maturity operations depends on the stance of monetary/fiscal policy. Accounting for risk premia in the fiscal theory allows the government ...
P2P Lending versus Banks: Cream Skimming or Bottom Fishing?
(2021-10-08)
We derive three testable predictions from a bank-P2P lender model of competition: (a) P2P lending grows when some banks are faced with exogenously higher regulatory costs, (b) P2P loans are riskier than bank loans, and (c) ...
Market impact of government communication: The case of presidential tweets
(2021-10-06)
"We propose the ""President reacts to news"" channel of stock returns by studying the financial market impact of the Twitter account of the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump. We use machine learning algorithms ...
Time-varying granger causality tests for applications in global crude oil markets: A study on the DCC-MGARCH Hong test
(2021-10-14)
Analysing causality among oil prices and, in general, among financial and economic variables is of central relevance in applied economics studies. The recent contribution of Lu et al. (2014) proposes a novel test for ...
The geography of banks in the United States (1990-2020)
(2021-09-20)
We present new statistical indicators of the structure and performance of US banks from 1990 to today, geographically disaggregated at the level of individual counties. The constructed data set (20 indicators for some 3150 ...