Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Senior Fellows/Fellows

Remote Work, Employee Mix, and Performance

Cevat Giray AKSOY, Nicholas A. BLOOM, Steven J. DAVIS, Victoria MARINO, Cem ÖZGÜZEL
We study the shift to fully remote work at a large call center in Turkey, highlighting three findings. First, fully remote work increased the share of women, including married women, rural and smaller-town residents. By accessing groups with traditionally lower labor-force participation the firm was...
Keywords: work from home, remote jobs, workforce mix, productivity
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Annual Conference

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Corporate Finance

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May 2021

Regulation-Induced CSR

Rik SEN, Vidhi CHHAOCHHARIA, Jing XU
Under a comply-or-explain framework, the Indian Companies Act of 2013 mandated that companies spend 2% of their profits towards CSR. In response, aggregate CSR spending increased substantially and most firms spent non-trivial amounts. These activities had a substantial real impact. On average, INR 1...
Keywords: CSR spending, Sustainability, Education, India
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Specialty Conference

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Specialty Conference

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Jan 2017

Regulating China's Peer to Peer Lending Market: The Role of Information Disclosure

Bihong HUANG, Xiao CHEN, Dezhu YE
Sharing economy is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide range of digital platform-based activities that includes P2P lending and other forms of internet-based lending. The core aim of the sharing economy is to leverage the utilization of idle capacity. P2P lending can not only be used to leverag...
Keywords: Sharing economy, P2P lending, Financial regulation, Financial democracy
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Specialty Conference

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Specialty Conference

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Jan 2017

Regulating Capital Flows at Both Ends: Does it Work?

Atish R. GHOSH, Mahvash S. QURESHI, Naotaka SUGAWARA
This paper examines whether cross-border capital flows can be regulated by imposing capital account restrictions (CARs) in both source and recipient countries, as was originally advocated by John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White. To this end, we use data on bilateral cross-border bank flows fro...
Keywords: cross-boder bank flows, capital controls, prudential measures
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Webinar Series

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Innovation, Productivity and Challenges in the Digital Era: Asia and Beyond

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Nov 2022

RegTech

Ben CHAROENWONG, Alan KWAN, Zachary T. KOWALESKI, Andrew G. SUTHERLAND
Compliance-driven investments in technology—or “RegTech”—have grown rapidly in recent years. To understand these investments, we study how financial institutions respond to new internal control requirements. First, we show that affected firms make significant investments in enterprise resour...
Keywords: RegTech, FinTech, technology adoption, financial regulation, compliance, internal controls, compleme
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