Discussion Papers

We characterize necessary conditions for socially responsible investors to impact firm behavior in a setting in which firm production generates social...

We study a noisy rational expectations equilibrium in a multi-asset economy populated by informed and uninformed investors and noise traders. The...

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...

Endogenous cycles are generated by the two-way interaction between lenders’ behavior in the credit market and production fundamentals. When lenders...

We study a financial market in which agents with interdependent values bid for a risky asset. Some agents are privately informed of their own value...

The growth of the asset management industry has made it commonplace for firms to have multiple institutional blockholders. In such firms, the strength...

We use granular data covering regulated (brokerage-financed) and unregulated (shadow-financed) margin trading during the 2015 market turmoil in China...

An intriguing observation in the US mutual fund industry is that most equity funds do not short sell, even though virtually all regulatory...

Using comprehensive administrative data from the UK, we examine trading by different investor types in government bond markets. Our sample covers...

Traders’ choice between lit and dark trading venues depends on market conditions, which are affected by execution priority rules in the dark pool...

This paper studies the restrictions on consumption, portfolio choice, and social discounting implied by a sustainability constraint, that utility...

A mutual fund’s demand for a pricing factor, measured by the loading of the fund’s returns on the factor’s returns, is persistent over time. When...

We propose an extrapolative model of bubbles to explain the sharp rise in prices and volume observed in historical financial bubbles. The model...

This paper investigates the role of sentiment in the US macro economy from 1920 to 1934. We use 2.4 million digitized articles from the Wall St...

We show theoretically and empirically that flows into index funds raise the prices of large stocks in the index disproportionately more than the...

The effects of large banks on the real economy are theoretically ambiguous and politically controversial. I identify quasi-exogenous increases in bank...