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Senior Fellows/Fellows

We study how equity analysts disclose different information to the public versus to fund managers to whom they are connected. We examine say-buy/whisper-sell behavior wherein analysts issue optimistic recommendations to attract retail investors while providing more accurate information to fund manag...
Keywords: Analyst recommendations, Mutual fund, Information Transmission
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Annual Conference

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Economic Transformation of Asia

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May 2017

Exploiting discontinuities in program eligibility, we show that mandates on banks to lend to small firms inhibit firm growth. Newly eligible firms near the upper threshold for treatment exhibit significant real-side slowdown in investment, sales, and a nonaccounting measure, power consumption. The e...
Keywords: Small Business Lending, firm growth
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Annual Conference

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Corporate Finance

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May 2014

The present paper provides new evidence that the introduction of transparency and disclosure rules may not necessarily boost firm performance. Focusing on the introduction of the Transparency and Disclosure (T&D) reforms initiated in Russia in 2002, we use data on staggered implementation of the...
Keywords: Corporate governance reform, Transparency and Disclosure rules, Domestic and foreign listed firms, Q, Market-to-Book, EBIT-to-Asset ratio, Russia
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Senior Fellows/Fellows

We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the staggered entry of new managers into India’s 42 public R&D labs between 1994 and 2006 to study how alignment between the CEO and middle-level managers a˙ect research productivity. We show that the introduction of new lab managers aligned with th...
Keywords: incentives, innovation, management, productivity, research and development
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2013

To better understand the role that loan officers’ incentives played in the origins of the financial crisis, we study a controlled field experiment conducted by a large bank. In the experiment, the incentive structure of a subset of small business loan officers was altered from fixed salary to volu...
Keywords: loan officers, default, housing bubble, financial crisis
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