We construct a synthesized model to study credit rationing by loan size. In our model, the borrower faces a trade-off between raising debt and exerting costly effort to undertake an investment project. In the absence of agency costs, increasing the loan size at the equilibrium interest rate...

In response to the reduction in trade policy uncertainty following China's accession to the WTO, U.S. manufacturing firms implemented more conservative capital structures, relying less on debt financing and holding more cash. We identify the effects using cross-sectional variation in exposure as...

We construct and estimate a dynamic oligopoly model of the Bitcoin mining market. Mining equipment manufacturers produce differentiated durable capital goods and endogenously choose optimal investments in R&D. Miners make dynamic purchase decisions based partly on beliefs regarding...

We investigate the peer effects from corporate real estate. Shocks to real estate prices shift firms' debt capacity, which has a significant impact not only on firm investment but also on the investment of peer firms: a $1 of increase in the price of peer real estate assets induces a $0.072...

I estimate a dynamic game where firms make external financing decisions and hold cash taking into account the corresponding behavior of their peers. A key advantage of this approach is that I can obtain an empirical measure of peer effects that stem from decision makers' dynamic optimization...

With a license to use individually identifiable information on student loan borrowers, we find that a majority of distressed student borrowers manage their debt sub-optimally and that suboptimal debt management is associated with higher loan delinquency. Loan mismanagement varies across student...