Post-Corona balanced budget fiscal stimulus: The case for shifting taxes onto land
Land’s share in economies’ nonfinancial assets equals between 40% and 60%, and in the US currently equals over 50%. This constitutes a very large base...
How global risk perceptions affect economic growth
The relationship between financial risk and economic growth is complex. This column finds that perceptions of high risk unambiguously harm growth...
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Inflating Away the Public Debt? An Empirical Assessment
The Review of Financial Studies, 35 (3), 1553-1595
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Measuring the ex-ante incentive effects of creditor control rights during bankruptcy reorganization
Journal of Financial Economics, 143 (1), 381-408
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Exchange Rate Exposure and Firm Dynamics
The Review of Economic Studies, 89 (1), 481-514
Volatility, Valuation Ratios, and Bubbles: An Empirical Measure of Market Sentiment
Journal of Finance, 76 (6), 3211-3254
Municipal Bond Insurance and the U.S. Drinking Water Crisis
We show that the collapse of the municipal bond insurance industry plays an important, but previously overlooked, role in driving regional variation...
A Theory of Socially Responsible Investment
We characterize necessary conditions for socially responsible investors to impact firm behavior in a setting in which firm production generates social...
Why some nations’ labour markets did better during the pandemic
Leaving human capital out of policy discussions might lead to incorrect inferences about which measures were most successful during the pandemic...
The Development of Central Bank Digital Currency in China: An Analysis
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has launched an ambitious project to develop a digital currency for use in domestic, retail transactions, and is, by...
Multi-Asset Noisy Rational Expectations Equilibrium with Contingent Claims
We study a noisy rational expectations equilibrium in a multi-asset economy populated by informed and uninformed investors and noise traders. The...
Company Law: A Real Entity Theory
This book advances a real entity theory of company law, in which the company is a legal entity which acts autonomously in law, and company law...
High-cost debt and perceived creditworthiness: Evidence from the UK
Journal of Financial Economics, 142 (2), 719-736
Blockchain Analysis of the Bitcoin Market
In this paper, we provide detailed analyses of the Bitcoin network and its main participants. We build a novel database using a large number of public...
