LIF-SAFE Working Papers: Recent submissions
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The Value of Firm Networks: A Natural Experiment on Board Connections
(2020-04-13)This paper presents causal evidence of the effects of boardroom networks on firm value and compensation policies. We exploit exogenous variation in network centrality arising from a ban on interlocking directorates of ... -
The Impact of Job Referrals on Employment Outcomes in Top Corporate Positions
(2020-03-01)Using an original dataset on professional networks of directors sitting on the boards of large US corporations, we examine how personal relationships are used by firms to improve job match quality in the high-skill segment ... -
Time Preferences over the Life Cycle
(2020-02-01)We study whether and how time preferences change over the life cycle, exploiting representative long-term panel data. We estimate the age patterns of discount rates from age 25 to 80. In order to identify age effects, we ... -
Econometrics at Scale: Spark Up Big Data in Economics
(2020-02-06)This paper provides an overview of how to use “big data” for economic research. We investigate the performance and ease of use of di?erent Spark applications running on a distributed ?le system to enable the handling and ... -
Implied Volatility Duration: A Measure for the Timing of Uncertainty Resolution
(2020-01-27)We introduce Implied Volatility Duration (IVD) as a new measure for the timing of uncertainty resolution, with a high IVD corresponding to late resolution. Portfolio sorts on a large cross-section of stocks indicate that ... -
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 ... -
Implications of Money-Back Guarantees for Individual Retirement Accounts: Protection Then and Now
(2019-10-21)In the wake of the financial crisis and continued volatility in international capital markets, there is growing interest in mechanisms that can protect people against retirement account volatility. This paper explores the ... -
Credit Scoring in SME Asset-Backed Securities: An Italian Case Study
(2019-10-14)We investigate the default probability, recovery rates and loss distribution of a portfolio of securitised loans granted to Italian small and medium enterprises (SMEs). To this end, we use loan level data information ... -
Buildings' Energy Efficiency and the Probability of Mortgage Default: The Dutch Case
(2020-03-01)We investigate the relation between buildings’ energy efficiency and the probability of mortgage default. To this end, we construct a novel panel dataset by combining Dutch loan-level mortgage information with provisional ... -
The Case for a Normatively Charged Approach to Regulating Shadow Banking - Multipolar Regulatory Dialogues as a Means to Detect Tail Risks and Preclude Regulatory Arbitrage
(2020-02-11)This paper contributes to the debate on the adequate regulatory treatment of non-bank financial intermediation (NBFI). It proposes an avenue for regulators to keep regulatory arbitrage under control and preserve sufficient ... -
Spillovers of Funding Dry-ups
(2020-08-29)We uncover a new channel for spillovers of funding dry-ups. The 2016 US money market fund (MMF) reform exogenously reduced unsecured MMF funding for some banks. We use novel data to trace those banks to a platform for ... -
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 ... -
Depressed Demand
(2020-02-14)Using a survey of Dutch households, we find that individuals who have experienced higher national unemployment rates over their lifetime save more and borrow less, after controlling for aggregate shocks, income, wealth, ... -
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 Anatomy of the Euro Area Interest Rate Swap Market
(2019-06-01)"Using a novel regulatory dataset of fully identified derivatives transactions, this paper provides the first comprehensive analysis of the structure of the euro area interest rate swap (IRS) market after the start of the ... -
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 ... -
Quasi-Dark Trading: The Effects of Banning Dark Pools in a World of Many Alternatives
(2019-04-30)We show that “quasi-dark” trading venues, i.e., markets with somewhat non-transparent trading mechanisms, are important parts of modern equity market structure alongside lit markets and dark pools. Using the European MiFID ... -
Optimists and Pessimists in (In)Complete Markets
(2019-06-06)We study the effects of market incompleteness on speculation, investor survival, and asset pricing moments, when investors disagree about the likelihood of jumps and have recursive preferences. We consider two models. In ... -
Belief Formation and Belief Updating under Ambiguity: Evidence from Experiments
(2019-09-21)Decisions under ambiguity depend on both the belief regarding possible scenarios and the attitude towards ambiguity. This paper exclusively focuses on beliefs, measured independent from attitudes. We use laboratory experiments ... -
Inflation Expectations and Choices of Households
(2019-04-01)Do household inflation expectations affect consumption-savings decisions? We link survey data on quantitative inflation expectations to administrative data on income and wealth. We document that households with higher ...