Xiaoyuan Hu (U. Maryland)

McIntire

Does Executive Compensation Depend on Product Market Structure? Evidence from Shocks to Firm Risk

Morris Davis – Rutgers

McIntire

Neighborhood Choices, Neighborhood Effects and Housing Vouchers

Gary Gorton – Yale

Darden

Good Booms, Bad Booms Credit booms are not rare; some end in a crisis (bad booms) while others do not (good booms). We document that credit booms start with an increase in productivity growth, which subsequently falls faster during bad booms. We develop a model in which a crisis happens Read more…

Rabih Moussawi – Villanova

Darden

Do ETFs increase the commonality in liquidity of underlying stocks? We examine the impact of ETF ownership on the commonality in liquidity of the stocks held by ETFs, while controlling for the ownership by other institutional investors. Our results indicate that ETF ownership significantly increases the liquidity commonality on account Read more…

Yael Hochberg – Rice University

Darden

Accelerator programs and the Regional Supply of Venture Capital Investment We examine the impact of seed accelerator programs-fixed-term, cohort-based educational and mentorship programs for startups-on the seed and early stage financing ecosystem of the regions in which they locate. We use a difference-in-differences approach that utilizes the staggered introduction of Read more…

Stephen Karolyi – Carnegie Mellon

McIntire, RRH 270

Lender Forbearance We use a regression discontinuity design to study ex-post discretion in lender’s contractual enforcement of restrictive covenant violations. At pre-set thresholds, we find that lenders enforce contractual breaches at an 11% rate, varying between 5% and 18% and peaking when credit conditions are tightest, consistent with enforcement exacerbating Read more…