We are inviting submissions for a two half-day online workshop on the economics of disclosure, information sharing, and secrecy. We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions on all aspects of information disclosure (or non-disclosure) in economics, accounting, management science, and...

Upon assuming control of Baoshang Bank, Chinese bank regulators announced that they would eschew bailing out large creditors of this city-level distressed bank in full. This paper investigates the consequences of this unexpected deviation from the long-standing full bailout policy. Employing a...

We examine the effect of regional favoritism on firms’ access to credit. Using firm-level data on a large sample of 29,000 firms covering 48 countries, we investigate the hypothesis that access to credit of firms is higher in the birth regions of national political leaders. We find evidence...

We evaluate the impact of loan-to-value restrictions on household financial vulnerability. Using Norwegian tax data, we first document a beneficial leverage effect, in which households respond to the regulation by reducing house purchase probabilities, debt and interest expenses. Second, we...

SAIIA invites you to the launch of futures-orientated policy research on the emerging digital geopolitical landscape in southern Africa and Africa at large. The policy insight report unpacks digital governance approaches across the United States, China, and Europe, and their implications for...

Lightning talks: - Tee Lip Hwe, Singapore Management University Libraries “Virtualisation of SMU Investment Studio” - Josep Soler Teixidor, Library Director, Esade Business School „Virtual Reality at Esade Library: Let’s start!“ - Dr. Ramin Nassehi, Lecturer (Teaching) in Economics,...

AI Talks @ ETUI is a series of inspiring (online) conversations which focus on the different dimensions of AI - ethical, social, environmental, legal, technological - and their impact on the world of work. Top experts from academia, civil society and online rights organizations, among others,...

This paper studies how banks compete amid digital disruption and the resulting distributional effect across consumers. Digital disruption increases the geographic coverage of banking services, bringing new entrants to local markets. However, as digital customers shift from branches to digital...

During the workshop prominent academics working in the field of Industrial Organization and Digital Economics will provide short lectures on relevant competition and regulatory issues in digital markets. In the remaining time, workshop participants will present their research and discussion...