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November 2022
Song Ma – Yale School of Management
The Education-Innovation Gap Barbara Biasi and Song Ma May 17, 2022 Abstract This paper documents differences across higher education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques to the text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative …
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Hyeik Kim – University of Alberta
All Clear for Takeoff: Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization Abstract Infrastructure assets have undergone substantial privatization in recent decades. How do different types of owners target and manage these assets? And does the contract form—control rights (concession) vs. outright ownership (sale)—matter? We explore these questions in…
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March 2023
Christopher Reilly – UT Dallas
Hidden Cost of Corporate Bond ETFs Abstract I document a hidden but substantial cost associated with the liquidity transformation that corporate bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) provide. When creating new shares, authorized participants (APs) deliver a subset of the portfolio of bonds that underlie a corporate bond ETF. This subset contains…
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Ralph Koijen – Booth (Chicago)
Asset Demand of U.S. Households Abstract We use new monthly security-level data on portfolio holdings, flows, and returns of U.S. households to understand asset demand across multiple asset classes. Our data cover a wide range of households across the wealth distribution – including ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) households – and holdings in…
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Tony Cookson (Colorado)
Tony will present his paper: Money to Burn: Wildfire Insurance via Social Networks with Emily Gallagher and Phil Mulder Abstract: Crowdfunding is an increasingly popular way to raise emergency funding after disasters. However, for victims of a recent major Colorado wildfire, we find that crowdfunding raised more support for high…
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David Schreindorfer (ASU)
David will present his paper: Volatility and the Pricing Kernel (co-authored with Tobias Sichert) Abstract Negative stock market returns are significantly more painful to investors when they occur in periods of low volatility. To establish this fact, we show that a drop in volatility makes the pricing kernel steeper and average put option returns…
Find out more »Constantine Yannelis (Chicago)
Constantine will present his paper: Data and Welfare in Credit Markets with Mark Jansen, Fabian Nagel, Anthony Lee Zhang Abstract: We show how to measure the welfare effects arising from increased data availability. When lenders have more data on prospective borrower costs, they can charge prices that are more aligned…
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