Annual Conference

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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2017

We propose a tractable and coherent framework that captures both conventional and unconventional monetary policies with the shadow fed funds rate. Empirically, we document the shadow rate’s resemblance to an overall financial conditions index, various private interest rates, the Fed’s balance sh...
Keywords: Shadow Rate, New Keynesian model, unconventional monetary policy, zero lower bound, QE, lending facilities
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Economic Transformation of Asia

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May 2017

There is a growing debate about land acquisition for infrastructure and industries in many densely populated countries. In this context, the present paper assesses the impact of the historical land ceiling legislations, largely implemented during 1960-85 to promote distributional equity, on corporat...
Keywords: Land ceiling legislations, Transaction costs of land acquisition, Corporate investment, Fixed and total capital-output ratios, More and less land-intensive firms, India
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Investment Finance, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2017

Compensation of mutual fund managers is paramount to understanding agency frictions in asset delegation. We collect a unique registry-based dataset on the compensation of Swedish mutual fund managers. We find a concave relationship between pay and revenue, in contrast to how investors compensate the...
Keywords: Portfolio manager compensation, Mutual Fund Performance, financial sector income
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Investment Finance, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2017

This paper studies the implications of credit market frictions for the cross-section of expected stock returns. A common prediction of macroeconomic theories of credit market frictions is that the tightness of financial constraints is countercyclical. As a result, capital that can be used as collate...
Keywords: Cross-Section of Returns, Financial Frictions, Collateral Constraint
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Accounting, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2017

This study examines the effect of bank monitoring on corporate tax planning behavior. To identify the causal effect, we use a regression discontinuity design, taking advantage of the discrete nature of bank control rights surrounding covenant violation thresholds. We find that strengthened bank moni...
Keywords: Bank monitoring, tax planning, loan covenants, cash tax savings, tax risk, regression discontinuity design
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