Annual Conference

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Corporate Finance

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May 2024

Equity pay has become increasingly common over the last several decades but the differences in the level of equity pay across firms are very large. This study documents the inequality in equity pay across firms and describes the drivers of firm-level differences in equity pay policies. We show that ...
Keywords: Equity Compensation, Inequality
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Annual Conference

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Corporate Finance

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May 2024

This paper models strategic voting on ESG proposals by blockholders with heterogeneous reputational concerns and varying levels of commitment to ESG values. ESG activists, whose public-good gains from interven- tion are not attenuated by selling shareholders' free-riding, rationally sponsor even lon...
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Annual Conference

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Corporate Finance

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May 2024

The adoption and commercialization of new technologies rely heavily on universally accepted principles, known as standards. Surprisingly, the role of standards in shaping business outcomes is largely unexplored. This paper provides an initial examination of how the standardization of artificial inte...
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Standard Setting, Investment, Technology Diffusion, Machine Learning, Big Data, Ethical AI, AI Safety, Privacy, AI Regulation, RegTech
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2024

Exchange rates in the standard macro-finance model with a representative agent are counter-cyclical. The reason is that exchange rates are equal to the ratio of marginal utilities of consumption of the representative investor in each country. This prediction is counterfactual: across a variety of co...
Keywords: Exchange rates, Incomplete markets, Backus-Smith puzzle
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2024

China's current account transactions use an offshore international currency, the CNH, that co-exists as a parallel currency with the mainland domestic currency, the CNY. The CNH is freely used, but by restricting its exchange for CNY, the authorities can enforce capital controls. Sustaining these co...
Keywords: Chinese monetary policy, Gresham’s law, Goodhart’s law, Money markets, RMB
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