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April 2019
Sunil Wahal – Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business
The Anatomy of Trading Algorithms Abstract We study the anatomy of four non-bespoke institutional trading algorithms. Proprietary data show parent orders and the sequences of child submissions, fills, and cancellations that they generate. The sample consists of 2.3 million parent orders between 2012 and 2016 that represent $675 billion in…
Find out more »Pedro Matos – Darden – Brown Bag Series
“Responsible Institutional Investing Around the World” Rajna Gibson (U Geneva), Philipp Krueger (U Geneva), Pedro Matos, and Tom Steffen (U Geneva) ABSTRACT We explore a novel survey on responsible investing by institutional investors around the world and match it to archival data on equity portfolio holdings. We study what factors…
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Felipe Schwartzman – Richmond Fed – Brown Bag Series
The Persistent Employment Effects of the 2006-09 U.S. Housing Wealth Collapse We show that the housing wealth collapse of 2006-09 had a persistent impact on employment across counties in the US. In particular, localities that had a larger loss in housing net-worth during that period had more depressed employment as…
Find out more »Federico Gavazzoni – INSEAD
International R&D Spillovers and Asset Prices We study the international propagation of long-run risk in the context of a general equilibrium model with endogenous growth. Innovation and international diffusion of technologies are the channels at the core of our mechanism. A calibrated version of the model matches several asset pricing…
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Slava Fos – Boston College
Do Short-Term Incentives Affect Long-Term Productivity? Previous research shows that stock repurchases that are caused by earnings management lead to reductions in firm-level investment and employment. It is natural to expect firms to cut less productive investment and employment first, which could lead to a positive effect on firm-level productivity.…
Find out more »Peter Simasek – Georgia Tech
Pension Overhang and Corporate Investment We exploit an exogenous, universal increase (decrease) in discount rates (pension liability) mandated by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) to identify the impact of pension overhang on investment. We find that firms with large unfunded pension liabilities increase investment…
Find out more »Christoph Herpfer – Emory – Brown Bag Series
Information Intermediaries: How Commercial Bankers Facilitate Strategic Alliances Marc Frattaroli | Christoph Herpfer July 4, 2019 Abstract We investigate how bankers use information from lending relationships to help borrowers combine resources in strategic alliances. Firms that have borrowed from the same banker or share an indirect connection through a network…
Find out more »Jordan Nickerson – Boston College
Gig-Labor: Trading Safety Nets for Steering Wheels Vyacheslav Fos, Naser Hamdi, Ankit Kalda, and Jordan Nickerson July 2019 This paper shows that the introduction of the “gig-economy” changes the way employees respond to job loss. Using a comprehensive set of Uber product launch dates and employee-level data on job separations,…
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