Research highlights
Influential research by members of the Paul Woolley Centre 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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Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices
Journal of Political Economy, 130(12), 3146-3201
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Multi-asset Noisy Rational Expectations Equilibrium with Contingent Claims
The Review of Economic Studies, 89 (5), 2445–2490
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Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs
American Economic Review, 112 (8), 2465-2517
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Heterogeneous Global Booms and Busts
American Economic Review, 112 (7), 2178-2212
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Market efficiency in the age of big data
Journal of Financial Economics, 145(1), 154-177
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Ripples into waves: Trade networks, economic activity, and asset prices
Journal of Financial Economics, 145(1), 217-238
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Comomentum: Inferring Arbitrage Activity from Return Correlations
The Review of Financial Studies, 35(7), 3272–3302
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The Wall Street stampede: Exit as governance with interacting blockholders
Journal of Financial Economics, 144(2), 433-455
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Extrapolative Bubbles and Trading Volume
The Review of Financial Studies, 35(4), 1682–1722
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Clients' Connections Measuring the Role of Private Information in Decentralized Markets
Journal of Finance, 77(1), 505-544
All publications
Municipal Bond Insurance and the U.S. Drinking Water Crisis
We show that the collapse of the municipal bond insurance industry plays an important, but previously overlooked, role in driving regional variation...
A Theory of Socially Responsible Investment
We characterize necessary conditions for socially responsible investors to impact firm behavior in a setting in which firm production generates social...
Multi-Asset Noisy Rational Expectations Equilibrium with Contingent Claims
We study a noisy rational expectations equilibrium in a multi-asset economy populated by informed and uninformed investors and noise traders. The...
Blockchain Analysis of the Bitcoin Market
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...
Cleansing by Tight Credit: Rational Cycles and Endogenous Lending Standards
Endogenous cycles are generated by the two-way interaction between lenders’ behavior in the credit market and production fundamentals. When lenders...
Information, Market Power and Welfare
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...
Network Risk and Key Players: A Structural Analysis of Interbank Liquidity
Journal of Financial Economics, 141(3), 831-859
The Wall Street Stampede: Exit as Governance with Interacting Blockholders
The growth of the asset management industry has made it commonplace for firms to have multiple institutional blockholders. In such firms, the strength...
Margin Trading and Leverage Management
We use granular data covering regulated (brokerage-financed) and unregulated (shadow-financed) margin trading during the 2015 market turmoil in China...
Why Don’t Most Mutual Funds Short Sell?
An intriguing observation in the US mutual fund industry is that most equity funds do not short sell, even though virtually all regulatory...
Informed Trading in Government Bond Markets
Using comprehensive administrative data from the UK, we examine trading by different investor types in government bond markets. Our sample covers...
Dark Trading and Alternative Execution Priority Rules
Traders’ choice between lit and dark trading venues depends on market conditions, which are affected by execution priority rules in the dark pool...