The Optimal Timing of Executive Compensation
We propose a new continuous-time principal-agent model to study the optimal timing of stock-based incentives, when the effects of managerial actions...
Value of Information in Competitive Economies with Incomplete Markets
We study the value of information in a competitive economy in which agents trade in asset markets to reallocate risk. We characterize the kinds of...
The Future of Finance: Chapter 3
This chapter offers a new understanding of how financial markets work. The key departure from conventional theory is to recognize that investors do...
Aversion to the variability of pay and optimal incentive contracts
In a moral hazard setting with a performance additive in effort and a symmetrically distributed noise term, I show that compensation contracts which...
Trading and Voting in Distressed Firms
We investigate the effect of the ability of “non-traditional” funds to short-sell the equity of their debtors. This enables the funds to vote on the...
Signalling in Tender Offer Games
We examine whether a bidder can use tender o§er terms to signal post-takeover security benefits. Neither restricted bids nor cash-equity offers allow...
Limits of Arbitrage: The State of the Theory
We survey theoretical developments in the literature on the limits of arbitrage. This literature investigates how costs faced by arbitrageurs can...
The Price Impact of Institutional Herding
In this paper we develop a simple theoretical model to analyze the impact of institutional herding on asset prices. A growing empirical literature has...
Credit Rating and Competition
In principle, credit rating agencies are supposed to be impartial observers that bridge the gap between private information of issuers and the...
Rent Capture Through Financial Innovation
How does economic theory need to adjust in light of the global financial crisis? This column presents a new insight on how innovation leads to rent...
British monetary targets 1976 to 1987: a view from the fourth floor of the Bank of England
Broad money and its credit counterparts played a key role in the conduct of British monetary policy in the period 1976 to 1987. This paper examines...
Crash 08 a regulatory debacle to be mended
The major financial crises of the last 30 years are analyzed and some common features brought to light: lax supervision, easy money, risk appetite...
Connected Stocks
By connecting stocks through common active mutual fund ownership, we forecast cross-sectional variation in return covariance, controlling for...