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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 ...
Incentives, self-selection, and coordination of motivated agents for the production of social goods
(2021-07-24)
We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated agents to produce a social good. Agents join teams where they allocate effort to either generate ...
The Value of Firm Networks: A Natural Experiment on Board Connections
(2021-08-03)
We present causal evidence on the effect of boardroom networks on firm value and compensation policies. We exploit a ban on interlocking directorates of Italian financial and insurance companies as exogenous variation and ...
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) ...
The role of disclosure in green finance
(2021-08-23)
We study the design features of disclosure regulations that seek to trigger the green transition of the global economy and ask whether such regulatory interventions are likely to bring about sufficient market discipline ...
OTC Discount
(2021-10-08)
We document a sizable OTC discount in the interdealer market for German sovereign bonds where exchange and over-the-counter trading coexist: the vast majority of OTC prices are favorable compared to exchange quotes. This ...
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 ...
Momentum-managed equity factors
(2019-07-22)
Managed portfolios that exploit positive first-order autocorrelation in monthly excess returns of equity factor portfolios produce large alphas and gains in Sharpe ratios. We document this finding for factor portfolios ...