Papers & Opinions

Corporate finance | Political institutions | Special interest politics

3rd Edition of our Conference! An Overview of the Day

Opinion

Posted on 6 November 2023

By Magdalena Rola-Janicka

This year’s edition of the CEPR Conference Series on the Political Economy of Finance took place in the beautiful Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam. This edition gathered a great lineup of scholars...
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Corporate finance | Empirics | Political institutions

Democracy as a Fundamental Determinant of Cross-Border Merger Activity

Paper

Posted on 5 September 2022

By Thomas Lambert

Does democracy shape international merger activity? If so, how? The short answer is yes because democratic institutions are conducive to higher-quality corporate governance. In a new paper, we examine 104,425...
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Empirics | Financial markets | Political institutions | Theory

Democratization, Inequality, and Risk Premia

Paper

Posted on 21 September 2021

By Max Miller

Risk premia are significantly elevated during periods of democratization in a cross-country panel of equity data covering 85 countries over 200 years, despite little evidence of a negative effect on...
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Empirics | Political institutions | Regulation

Financial Policymaking After Crises: Public vs. Private Interests

Paper

Posted on 7 July 2021

By Orkun Saka

We first present a simple model of post-crisis policymaking driven by both public and private interests. Using a novel dataset covering 94 countries between 1973 and 2015, we then establish...
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