Publications

We investigate how business ties with portfolio firms influence mutual funds’ proxy voting using a comprehensive dataset spanning 2003 to 2011. In...

Making banks resolvable is a key component of the regulatory reform programme enacted in response to the crisis. A resolvable bank is one that is...

Review of Financial Studies, 27 (3). pp. 663-713. 

The Bank of England’s ‘consultative document’ on Competition and Credit Control was published on May 14th, 1971. It was a landmark occasion...

This paper contributes to a growing literature on the pitfalls of diversification by shedding light on a new mechanism under which, full risk...

Mathematics and Financial Economics, Volume 8, pages 249–264.

International Economic Review, 55(1), 57-81.

We use the length of employment contracts to estimate CEO turnover probability and its effects on risk-taking. Protection against dismissal should...

This paper shows that product market competition has two opposing effects on asset returns. The first relates to the procyclical nature of the value...

We develop a dynamic model of liquidity provision, in which hedgers can trade multiple risky assets with arbitrageurs. We compute the equilibrium in...

With the OMT program the ECB has de facto taken over the role as a lender of last resort (LoLR) for euro area governments. While this has been...

This paper presents a policy proposal for building a new framework for gathering, measuring and disclosing financial risk information in the global...

This paper examines the concept of systemic risk and provides an intuitive account of the economic thought on systems and the development of the...

The experience from the global financial crisis has raised serious concerns about the accuracy of standard risk measures as tools for the...

Review of Financial Studies, 26 (12). pp. 3104-3141. 

We study rights offerings using a sample of 8,238 rights offers announced during 1995-2008 in 69 countries. Although shareholders prefer having the...