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Elisabeth Kempf – Chicago Booth
Darden, FOB 194"Partisan Professionals: Evidence from Credit Rating Analysts" ABSTRACT Partisan bias affects the decisions of financial analysts. Using a novel hand-collected dataset that links credit rating analysts to party affiliations from voter records, we show that analysts who do not support the President’s party are more likely to downgrade firms. Our Read more…
Anton Korinek – Darden/UVa – Brown Bag Series
Darden, Library Conference Room 208DThe Rise of Artificially Intelligent Agents Rapid advances in AI imply that machines increasingly behave like artificially intelligent agents (AIAs). This raises fundamental questions about what an economy with AIAs will look like – questions that stretch from the allocation of resources between humans and non-humans to the potential for Read more…
Jarrad Harford – Foster, U. of Washington
Darden, FOB 194International Trade and the Propagation of Merger Waves Abstract We map the yearly global trade network and compare it to cross-border and domestic merger activity. Trade-weighted merger activity in trading partner countries has significant explanatory power for the likelihood a country will be in a merger wave state, both at Read more…