This paper documents that mutual fund managers who experience distress in one fund tend to subsequently take on more risk in other funds they manage. Specifically, portfolio managers decrease the cash holdings and increase the systematic risk component in their linked funds. This increased...

We study the role of race and ethnicity in the investment decisions of mutual fund managers and investors. Funds managed by white-dominant teams allocate larger portfolio weights to firms led by white CEOs compared to funds managed by minority-dominant teams. Nevertheless, white-dominant fund...

We document the propagation through supply chains of the most damaging cyberattack in history and the important role of banks in mitigating its impact. Customers of directly hit firms saw reductions in revenues, profitability, and trade credit relative to similar firms. The losses were larger...

We document the propagation effects through supply chains of the most damaging cyberattack in history and the important role of banks in mitigating its impact. Customers of directly hit firms saw reductions in revenues, profitability, and trade credit relative to similar firms. The losses...

This paper examines whether banks strategically incorporate their competitors' liquidity mismatch policies when determining their own and how these collective decisions impact financial sector stability. Using a novel identification strategy exploiting the presence of partially overlapping peer...

I develop a model where the sovereign debt capacity depends on the capitalization of domestic banks. Low-capital banks optimally tilt their government bond portfolio toward domestic securities, linking their destiny to that of the sovereign. If the sovereign risk is sufficiently high,...