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We model a market in which traders lay off their excess inventories of an asset in a sequence of size-discovery sessions and on a continuously operating exchange. Taking the exchange as given, we derive a size-discovery mechanism that efficiently reallocates the asset across traders at each session...
Keywords: mechanism design, price impact, size discovery, allocative efficiency, workup, dark pool, market design
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We examine business cycle divergence and risk-sharing channels within the United States as a whole and in U.S. ‘regions’ whose populations have voted consistently Democrat (Blue) or Republican (Red) in national elections. We find: (1) state busi-ness cycle divergence exceeds international diver...
Keywords: monetary union, consumption risk-sharing, economic and political di-vergence
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

Directors are more likely to obtain additional directorships or be promoted if the CEO and peer directors of their current board are well-connected. The impact of CEO and peer director connections is stronger for additional appointments and promotions at firms in the CEO’s and peer directors’ ne...
Keywords: board of directors, network connections, director labor market, CEO rolodex
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

We examine which firms are targets of cyberattacks and how they are affected. We find that cyberattacks cause firms to reassess the risks that they are exposed to and their consequences, so that they have real effects on firm policies even when targets are not financially constrained. Cyberattacks a...
Keywords: Cyber risk, Cyberattack, Hacking, Risk management, Firm Value, Leverage, Compensation policy
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Annual Conference

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Corporate Finance

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May 2018

We study the relationship between employee satisfaction and stock returns across 30 countries. Employee satisfaction is associated with superior long-run returns in flexible labor markets, such as the US and UK, but not rigid labor markets, such as Germany. Similar results hold for current valuation...
Keywords: Employee Satisfaction, Labor Market Flexibility, Socially Responsible Investing, corporate social responsibility
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