Regulatory Costs of Being Public: Evidence from Bunching Estimation (joint with Michael Ewens and Kairong Xiao) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3740722 Many disclosure and internal governance regulations for U.S. public firms trigger when a firm's public float exceeds a threshold. Consistent with firms seeking to avoid costly regulation, we document significant bunching around multiple Read more…

Securities Lending and Trading by Active and Passive Funds Abstract I study the market for lending and borrowing securities in the United States. I find that by making securities available for borrowing, mutual funds acquire information about short selling, which they exploit for trading. Funds with discretion in their investment Read more…

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Global Implications of Manager Disclosure (joint with Richard Evans, Miguel Ferreira, and Pedro Matos)

Revisiting Roll's R2 Puzzle (with Brent Kitchens and Chris Yung) Abstrac: We resolve Roll's R2 puzzle. Before legislation enacted to prevent such practices, information leakage through selective disclosure could be incorporated into market prices prior to public release of news. I.e., "news days" did not deliver news to the stock Read more…

Crowded out from the Beginning: Impact of Government Debt on Corporate Financing Cagri Akkoyun, Nuri Ersahin, & Christopher James March 22, 2021 Abstract Using hand-collected data on corporate bond and stock offerings, we identify the impact of government debt on corporate financing during World War I. The early twentieth century Read more…

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