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View article: Data and Code for: Why is the Fragmented Municipal Bond Market so Costly to Investors and Issuers?
Data and Code for: Why is the Fragmented Municipal Bond Market so Costly to Investors and Issuers? Open
This repository includes code for replicating the figures in addition to some of the necessary data. The included data are for historical bond and equity transaction costs extracted from other research papers. However, most of the data use…
View article: Data and Code for: Why is the Fragmented Municipal Bond Market so Costly to Investors and Issuers?
Data and Code for: Why is the Fragmented Municipal Bond Market so Costly to Investors and Issuers? Open
This repository includes code for replicating the figures in addition to some of the necessary data. The included data are for historical bond and equity transaction costs extracted from other research papers. However, most of the data use…
View article: Why Is the Fragmented Municipal Bond Market So Costly to Investors and Issuers?
Why Is the Fragmented Municipal Bond Market So Costly to Investors and Issuers? Open
The municipal bond market plays a crucial role in providing capital to US municipalities and functions through a network of underwriters, municipal advisors, credit rating agencies, insurers, individual and institutional investors, and mul…
View article: What is Forensic Finance?
What is Forensic Finance? Open
potentiallyWe survey a growing field studying aspects of finance that are illegal, illicit, or immoral. Some of the literature is investigative in nature to uncover malfeasance that is recent and possibly ongoing. Other forensic finance re…
View article: Did FinTech Lenders Facilitate PPP Fraud?
Did FinTech Lenders Facilitate PPP Fraud? Open
In the $793 billion Paycheck Protection Program, we examine metrics related to potential misreporting including nonregistered businesses, multiple businesses at residential addresses, abnormally high implied compensation per employee, and …
View article: Do Municipal Bond Dealers Give Their Customers “Fair and Reasonable” Pricing?
Do Municipal Bond Dealers Give Their Customers “Fair and Reasonable” Pricing? Open
Municipal bonds exhibit considerable retail pricing variation, even for same‐size trades of the same bond on the same day, and even from the same dealer. Markups vary widely across dealers. Trading strongly clusters on eighth price increme…
View article: How Has COVID-19 Impacted Research Production in Economics and Finance?
How Has COVID-19 Impacted Research Production in Economics and Finance? Open
Following the onset of COVID-19, research production in economics and finance (measured by the posting of working papers) increased by 29$\%$. Production increases were widespread across geographies, job titles, departments, and ages with …
View article: Replication Code and Data for: How Has COVID-19 Impacted Research Production in Economics and Finance?
Replication Code and Data for: How Has COVID-19 Impacted Research Production in Economics and Finance? Open
Replication Code and Data for: "How Has COVID-19 Impacted Research Production in Economics and Finance?" Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming.
View article: What drove the 2003–2006 house price boom and subsequent collapse? Disentangling competing explanations
What drove the 2003–2006 house price boom and subsequent collapse? Disentangling competing explanations Open
Ten years after the financial crisis, the central question of what explains the rise and fall in house prices remains unresolved. We provide a unified framework to examine four excess credit supply variables and three speculation variables…
View article: Personal infidelity and professional conduct in 4 settings
Personal infidelity and professional conduct in 4 settings Open
Significance The relative importance of personal traits compared with context for predicting behavior is a long-standing issue in psychology. This debate plays out in a practical way every time an employer, voter, or other decision maker h…
View article: Do labor markets discipline? Evidence from RMBS bankers
Do labor markets discipline? Evidence from RMBS bankers Open
This paper examines whether employees involved in residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS) securitization experienced internal and external labor market consequences relative to similar non-RMBS employees in the same banks and why. Seni…