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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
Excessive Stock Price Dispersion: A Regression Test of Cross-Sectional Volatility
In this paper we apply a regression test of the volatility of asset prices to a cross-section data set of US stock prices each year between 1932-71...
The Choice of Stock Ownership Structure: Agency Costs, Monitoring and the Decision to Go Public
From the viewpoint of a company's controlling shareholder, the optimal ownership structure generally involves some measure of dispersion, to avoid...
IPO Signalling of Initial Owners' Private Benefits of Control
A signalling model is developed which demonstrates how the offer price and the proportion of shares sold through an issue of ordinary shares when a...
Optimal 'Soft' or 'Tough' Bankruptcy Procedures
This paper studies optimal financial contracts in a framework with asymmetric information. The key idea is that financial distress of a firm is not...
Turnpike Banking: Only the Meek Shall Inherit the Earth
We consider the transitions, among intragenerational (autarkic) and intergenerational financing and liquidity risk-sharing mechanisms, in an...
The Regulation of Predatory Firms
This article investigates the issue of predation by a regulated firm. Since it has private information, a regulated firm obtains higher rents in case...
Using Time Series Methods to Assess Information And Inventory Effects in a Dealer Market in Il-liquid Stocks
The purpose of this paper is to test for the existence of inventory control and asymmetric information in stock market price quotes, and then quantify...
Announcement Effects and Seasonality in the Intra-day Foreign Exchange Market
This paper examines two aspects of spot FX volatility. Using intra-daily quotation data on the Deutsche Mark/Dollar we simultaneously estimate the...