We study the impact of climate-related patent approvals on financial markets. We exploit the quasi-random assignment of patent examiners as an exogenous shock in patent approvals to seek for causal interpretations. We find that innovative firms with lucky draws in the patent examiner lottery...

We analyze the economic consequences of financing with utility tokens that give access to consumption utility and are traded on a secondary market. Projects can be financed by selling equity or tokens. In a baseline analysis, efficient projects prefer equity, while inefficient projects prefer...

We analyze real economic consequences of financing with (mispriced) utility tokens that give access to consumption utility and are traded on a secondary market. Projects can be financed by equity or by selling tokens. In a baseline analysis, efficient projects prefer equity, while inefficient...

This paper examines two prominent approaches to design efficient mechanisms for debt renegotiation with dispersed bondholders: debt exchange offers that promise enhanced liquidation rights to a restricted number of tendering bondholders (favored under U.S. law), and collective action clauses...

We use the reform process of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 as a quasi-natural experiment to identify the impact of corporate governance reform on foreign exchange risk hedging, and find that the substantial improvements in governance standards reduced foreign exchange exposure and increased...