We employ a sharp regression discontinuity design to identify the causal effects of investor base disclosure on funding success and post-funding outcomes. Starting from February 2016, Kickstarter discloses backer statistics including geographic locations and previous funding experience of the...

Events that disrupt customer-supplier relationships pose a source of risk for suppliers that depend on a customer for a large portion of their revenues. We identify the replacement of a customer's CEO as a disruptive event that results in suppliers losing substantial sales to the customer...

Digital technologies may make some tasks, jobs and firms more resilient to unanticipated shocks. We extract data from over 200 million U.S. job postings to construct an index for firms' resilience to the Covid-19 pandemic by assessing the work-from-home (WFH) feasibility of their labor demand....

Using rich plant-level data, we analyze the relative performance of inside and outside CEOs and provide the first empirical evidence on what CEOs actually do to improve performance. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we show that, compared to insiders, outsiders achieve higher growth in...

Using confidential establishment-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau, this paper studies the effects of ACA Medicaid expansion on corporate behavior in the U.S. manufacturing sector. We find that Medicaid expansion leads to a significant decrease in capital investment and productivity at the...