Annual Conference

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Investment Finance, Senior Fellows/Fellows, Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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May 2022

Using comprehensive account-level data from 2016 to 2019, we examine retail investor trading behavior in the Chinese stock market. We separate millions of retail investors into five groups by their account sizes and document strong heterogeneity in their trading dynamics and performance. Retail inve...
Keywords: Retail investors, Chinese stock market, Return predictability, Information content
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Corporate Finance, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2013

This paper offers a unified framework to understand informal financing. We explore various sources of informal financing based on their mechanisms to deal with asymmetric information and enforcement and examine their role in supporting firm growth. We find that constructive informal financing such a...
Keywords: Informal financing, asymmetric information, social collateral, firm growth
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2016

This paper proposes using foreign exchange (FX) options with dierent strike prices and maturities (\the term structure of volatility smiles") to capture both FX expectations and risks. Using daily options data for six major currency pairs, we show that the cross section and term structure of options...
Keywords: exchange rates, excess returns, options pricing, volatility smile, risk, term structure of implied volatility, quantile regression
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2013

We use a unique, new, database to examine micro depositor level data for a bank that faced a run. We use minute-by-minute depositor withdrawal data to understand the effectiveness of deposit insurance, the role of social networks, and the importance of bank-depositor relationships in influencing dep...
Keywords: bank runs, depositor behavior, social networks
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Accounting

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May 2018

We undertake the first large-sample analysis of foreign tax holiday participation by U.S. firms. Tax holidays are temporary reductions of tax granted by governments, usually contingent on the firm making new operational investments in the country. We predict and find that firms are more likely to pa...
Keywords: Tax holiday, corporate tax, international tax
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