Regulation

    Papers & Opinions


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    Posted on 3 August 2025

    We model stakeholder-driven institutional divestiture that promotes harmful-asset stranding through both an economic exposure channel and financial prices. We introduce two novel mechanisms. First, institutional divestiture weakens stakeholders' asset exposures,...

    Paper


    Posted on 29 January 2025

    We show that government deleveraging causes liquidity squeeze among non-state-owned-enterprise (non-SOE) contractors, an unintended consequence of containing subnational debts. Our empirical analysis exploits China’s top-down deleveraging policy in 2017 that...

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    Posted on 4 November 2024

    I argue creditors, plausibly considering the link between bank lobbying and government bailouts, reflect the financial-safety-net aspect of bank lobbying. My structural estimation based on U.S. data suggests bank lobbying...

    Paper


    Posted on 10 October 2024

    This paper studies how hiring public officials affects firms’ ability to win government contracts in Japan. We link personnel transitions of public officials to contractors and government contracts awarded to...

    Paper


    Posted on 27 November 2023

    We examine the roles of commercial bank ownership and CEO faction membership in facilitating or in hindering the implementation of central bank policy in China. Both ownership and membership matter:...

    Paper


    Posted on 18 July 2023

    A first-order concern regarding sustainable finance is that it may crowd out individual support for more effective, policy-driven approaches to address societal challenges. We test the validity of this concern...

    Paper


    Posted on 20 April 2023

    In the last three decades, legal delegation of monetary policy to independent central banks (CBI) has achieved the status of a global norm of good governance. The recent backlash against this...

    Paper


    Posted on 29 March 2023

    National surveillance is often insufficient to identify transnational issues. One solution to this problem is to delegate to international organizations (IOs) the power to surveil activity in numerous states simultaneously,...

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    Posted on 17 June 2022

    We propose a novel pressure-based model of financial misconduct. We interpret the robust empirical findings of a high “success rate of crime” as evidence of skewness in the payoff of...

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    Posted on 6 April 2022

    We develop the first comprehensive mapping of the revolving door phenomenon in the U.S. by examining the work experience in executive branch agencies of 1,910,150 individuals covering top corporate positions...

    Paper


    Posted on 22 October 2021

    We study firm governance when shareholders strategically vote and buy/sell shares. We find that voting for the better policy maximizes portfolio value only when pivotal; otherwise, it is better to...

    Paper


    Posted on 27 September 2021

    We analyze the partisanship of Securities and Exchange Commissioners (SEC) and members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (Fed). Using the language-based approach of Gentzkow, Shapiro, and Taddy (Econometrica,...

    Opinion


    Posted on 6 September 2021

    The regulatory architecture of the financial system has significantly changed after the global financial crisis of 2008/09. In Europe, the introduction of the Single Rulebook has been a major change...

    Paper


    Posted on 23 August 2021

    We present novel evidence on the value of cross-border political access. We analyze data on meetings of US multinational enterprises (MNEs) with European Commission (EC) policymakers. Meetings with Commissioners are...

    Opinion


    Posted on 4 August 2021

    A rapidly expanding literature has shown the importance of political economy factors for legislative and regulatory actions in the financial sector and ultimately financial sector stability and efficiency. This column...