Annual Conference

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Accounting

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May 2024

Breaking the Language Barriers Machine Translation Technology and Analysts’ Forecasts for Multinational Firms

Bingxu FANG, Pengkai LIN
We study the impact of machine translation technology on analysts’ forecasts for multinational firms. Exploiting the staggered rollout of Google Translate’s support to translate foreign languages into English, we find that U.S. analysts improve their forecast accuracy for firms with substantial ...
Keywords: Technology, Sell-Side Analysts, Machine Translation, Labor and Finance, Complementarity
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Annual Conference

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Investment Finance, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2017

Bonds, Stocks, and Sources of Mispricing

Doron AVRAMOV, Alexander PHILIPOV, Gergana JOSTOVA, Tarun CHORDIA
This paper shows that investor sentiment and financial distress jointly drive the equity overpricing underlying market anomalies. In particular, the intersection of high sentiment and rating downgrades of distressed firms characterizes episodes of inflated stock and bond prices to the extent that as...
Keywords: sentiment, mispricing, anomalies, bonds, stocks, Financial Distress
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Annual Conference

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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2015

Bond Vigilantes and Inflation: Do Domestic Bond Markets Promote Price Stability?

Andrew K. ROSE, Mark M. SPIEGEL
This paper explores the relationship between inflation and the existence of a local, nominal, publicly traded, longmaturity, domestic currency bond market. Domestic bond markets have an unclear effect on inflation; they present issuing governments with the opportunity to inflate away their debt obli...
Keywords: empirical, panel, long, maturity, domestic, currency, risk, fixed, effect, nominal, Debt
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Annual Conference

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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2019

Bond Risk Premia and the Exchange Rate

Ilhyock SHIM, Boris HOFMANN, Hyun Song SHIN
In emerging market economies, currency appreciation goes hand in hand with compressed sovereign bond spreads, even for local currency sovereign bonds. This yield compression comes from a reduction in the credit risk premium. Crucially, the relevant exchange rate involved in yield compression is the ...
Keywords: Bond Spread, Capital Flow, Credit Risk, Emerging Market, exchange rate
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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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Apr 2022

Blockchain without Crypto? Linking On-Chain Data Growth to Firm Fundamentals and Stock Returns

Lin William CONG, Ran CHANG
Despite the explosive growth of cryptocurrencies, whether the underlying technology adds significant value and will thus sustain broad adoption remains unclear. Using proprietary data on firm-level blockchain records from 2015 to 2021, we conduct the first large-sample study linking blockchains to f...
Keywords: Alternative Data, Blockchain, Digitization, Disclosure, Nowcasting
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