Research highlights
Influential research by members of the Financial Markets Group has been published in some of the most recognised international journals in Economics and Finance, such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of Financial Studies. A sample of recent papers is below.
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Informational Black Holes in Financial Markets
Journal of Finance, 78 (6), 3099-3140
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Corporate Capture of Blockchain Governance
Review of Financial Studies, 36 (4), 1364–1407
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Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices
Journal of Political Economy, 130(12), 3146-3201
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Measuring the welfare cost of asymmetric information in consumer credit markets
Journal of Financial Economics, 146 (3), 821-840
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Heterogeneous Global Booms and Busts
American Economic Review, 112 (7), 2178-2212
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Central Bank Swap Lines: Evidence on the Lender of Last Resort
The Review of Economic Studies, 89(4), 1654–1693
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Market efficiency in the age of big data
Journal of Financial Economics, 145(1), 154-177
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Public Procurement in Law and Practice
American Economic Review, 112 (4), 1091-1117
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Exchange Rate Exposure and Firm Dynamics
The Review of Economic Studies, 89 (1), 481-514
All publications
The Anatomy of the CDS Market
Using novel position and trading data for single-name corporate credit default swaps (CDSs), we provide evidence that CDS markets emerge as...
The Divergent Postcommunist Paths to Democracy and Economic Freedom
This paper presents evidence from 29 postcommunist countries that the economic transition has been more successful than the political transformation...
Why it doesn't make sense to hold bonds
Investor demand for bonds is very high. This column argues that this is surprising because under almost any likely inflation scenario, including...
On the financial market consequences of Brexit
Brexit creates new opportunities and new risks for the British and EU financial markets. Both could benefit, but a more likely outcome is a fall in...
Cyber risk as systemic risk
The threat to the financial system posed by cyber risk is often claimed to be systemic. This column argues against this, pointing out that almost all...
Insurance and systemic risk: No easy conclusions
The IMF’s latest Global Financial Stability Report devotes for the first time a chapter to the systemic risks potentially associated with the...
Macro-Modelling, Default and Money
Mainstream macro-models have assumed away financial frictions, in particular default. The minimum addition in order to introduce financial...
Women in Finance
Across countries, banks have less gender diverse boards than other firms. Bank board diversity is particularly low in countries with greater gender...
Learning in Crowded Markets
We study how competition among investors affects the efficiency of capital allocation, the speed of capital, and welfare. In our model, investors...
Stress Testing and Macroprudential Regulation: A Transatlantic Assessment
This CEPR Press eBook presents the perspectives of policymakers, stress test designers and academics on the remarkable development of stress testing...
Stress testing and macroprudential regulation: A transatlantic assessment
Since the onset of the Global Crisis in 2007-08, stress testing has emerged as a major component of the supervisory toolkit. This column introduces a...
Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes
We present evidence that cultural proximity (shared codes, beliefs, ethnicity) between lenders and borrowers increases the quantity of credit and...