The narrative that emerged in the aftermath of the COVID-19 financial crisis has focused on nonbank financial inter-mediation as the primary vulnerability that plagued financial markets starting in March of 2020 and the exogenous nature of a public health crisis as a unique precipitating event....

In 1720, Britain and France convulsed in the South Sea and Mississippi bubbles. Manias and crashes have stalked financial markets ever since, demonstrating the profound difficulty of preventing or mitigating them. Conventional narratives depict the crises as the product of hubris, folly, and...

What happens on Wall Street matters for Main Street. We use establishment-level data on the employment composition of US public firms to show that the predictive power of aggregate stock returns for aggregate employment comes despite the industrial composition of publicly traded firms differing...

We document an increasingly important role of fiscal policy expectation in stock return responses to macro surprises. In a persistent low-interest-rate economy, when the Main Street suffers more than expected, investors may expect a more generous Federal Government support and drive up the...

By January 2021, the stock of GameStop (GME) was heavily shorted by institutional investors but an unprecedented retail campaign for pushing-up its stock price culminated in a short squeeze by the end of January 2021. Adapting recent innovations in text analysis in finance and on microblogging...

The Federal Reserve has reacted swiftly to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has resuscitated many of its programs from the last crisis by lending to the financial sector, which we refer to as “Wall Street QE.” The Fed is now proposing to also lend directly to, and purchase debt directly from,...

The Federal Reserve has reacted swiftly to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has resuscitated many of its programs from the last crisis by lending to the financial sector, which we refer to as “Wall Street QE.” The Fed is now proposing to also lend directly to, and purchase debt directly from,...

We demonstrate that since the early 1990's, it is becoming increasingly common for firms to be run by CEOs who are aligned with the Democratic Party, which we refer to as the blue trend. We find evidence that at least one factor driving this trend appears to be the rise of the role of women, who...

This paper examines the recent rise of institutional investment in the single-family home rental market and its implications for renters' welfare. Using institutional mergers to identify local exogenous variation in institutional landlords' scale and market share, we show that rent increased in...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Rome and the Papal State: Old Customs and the New Kingdom of Italy -- Chapter 3: Finance and Banking -- Chapter 4: Structural Elements of the Rome Stock Exchange: Regulations, Price Lists and Intermediaries -- Chapter 5: The Rome Stock Exchange and the...

Einleitung -- Die Zulassung von Aktien zum Börsenhandel -- Methoden der Wertpapieremission -- Prospekthaftung nach dem Börsengesetz -- Die Entwicklung der deutschen Wertpapierbörsen -- Die deutsche Börsenstruktur in drei Phasen -- Die Untersuchung von Börseneinführungen -- Schlussbetrachtung.

One of the most popular investment anecdotes relates how Isaac Newton, after cashing in some large early gains, staked his fortune on the success of the South Sea Company of 1720 and lost heavily in the ensuing crash. However, this tale is based on only a few scraps of hard evidence, some of...

This Article critically examines the transformation of the financial services industry during and since the Financial Crisis of 2007–2009. This transformation has been marked by the demise of the major investment banks and the related rise of a set of powerful players known as private equity...

The establishment and growth of the Greek stock market were coincident with development episodes, financial upheavals and geographic expansions of the country's economy over the period 1880-1940. We explore the growth of the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) through new listings and Initial Public...

This paper is a slightly revised version of a presentation that was given at the celebration of the Center for Finan-cial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt on the occa-sion of the 80th birthday of Dr. Rolf-E. Breuer on Novem-ber 30, 2017. It illuminates the development of the ex-change...

Growing evidence shows that biological factors affect individual financial decisions that could be reflected in financial markets. Testosterone, a chemical messenger especially influential in male physiology, has been shown to affect economic decision making, and is taken as a...

Die Börse war im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert einer der spektakulärsten Orte im Zentrum Berlins. Der 1863 eingeweihte repräsentative Monumentalbau gegenüber dem Berliner Dom manifestierte das neue Nationalbewusstsein Preußens und entwickelte sich zu einem prominenten Schauplatz ökonomischen...

The Federal Reserve has reacted swiftly to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has resuscitated many of its programs from the last crisis by lending to the financial sector, which we refer to as "Wall Street QE." The Fed is now proposing to also lend directly to, and purchase debt directly from,...

Modern finance has become a very complicated field, which raises many questions about its economic and social mission. Many bankers' ignorance of complex knowledge and care for the future are hostile ingredients that transform the markets' volatility, through spillover effects, into economic and...

"Je höher man steigt, umso tiefer der Fall" - auf wohl kein Phänomen trifft dieser Ausspruch so gut zu wie auf Finanzkrisen. Steigen die Preise für ein Spekulationsobjekt in immer gröe︢re Höhen und erhitzt sich der Markt immer mehr, ist die Folge meist ein abrupter Fall: Die Blase platzt!...

The following article is based on the Paul Healy's keynote address at the 2014 Applied Finance Conference held at St. John's University Manhattan, NY campus on May 16th, 2014. His address summarized a decade long research program examining the workings of both the sell and buy sides of financial...

Billions of dollars have flooded new online marketplaces for trading private company stock. These marketplaces stand poised to become important, lasting features of the private company world as they provide a central meeting place for buyers and sellers and potentially increase the liquidity of...

Credit analysts often leave rating agencies to work at firms they rate. We use benchmark rating agencies as counterfactuals to measure rating inflation in a difference-in-differences framework and find that transitioning analysts award inflated ratings to their future employers before switching...

Heightened counterparty risk during the recent financial crisis has raised questions about the role clearinghouses play in global financial stability. Empirical identification of the effect of centralized clearing on counterparty risk is challenging because of the co-incidence of macro-economic...

Major bubble episodes are rare events. In this paper, we examine what factors might cause some asset price bubbles to become very large. We recreate, in a laboratory setting, some of the specific institutional features investors in the South Sea Company faced in 1720. Several factors have been...

Heightened counterparty risk during the recent financial crisis has raised questions about the role clearinghouses play in global financial stability. Empirical identification of the effect of centralized clearing on counterparty risk is challenging because of the co-incidence of macro-economic...

Heightened counterparty risk during the recent financial crisis has raised questions about the role clearinghouses play in global financial stability. Empirical identification of the effect of centralized clearing on counterparty risk is challenging because of the co-incidence of macro-economic...

Heightened counterparty risk during the recent financial crisis has raised questions about the role clearinghouses play in global financial stability. Empirical identification of the effect of centralized clearing on counterparty risk is challenging because of the co-incidence of macro-economic...

Approximately 3,000 lobbyists had swarmed the Capitol Hill in hopes of killing off pieces of the proposed Dodd-Frank Act — nearly six lobbyists for every member of Congress. Despite the onslaught, Dodd-Frank got stronger rather than weaker which is unusual

Introduction: stock markets and corporate finance -- A short history of stock markets -- The time value of money -- Market debt, interest rates and valuation -- The valuation of equity shares -- Shareholders' required rate of return (the cost of equity capital) -- Accounting statements and ratio...

Dass die internationalen Geldströme über Frankfurt laufen, ist allseits bekannt. Weitaus weniger weiß man über die regionalen Finanzzentren in Deutschland. Dabei bieten sie viele Vorteile: persönliche Kenntnisse des Umfelds, unmittelbare Kontakte zu den Entscheidern vor Ort und allgemein...

"In the late 1960s, France attempted a complete overhaul of its financial regulations without being forced to do so by a stock market crash or the collapse of its banking system. Out of pure political expediency, Gaullist reformers seized the opportunity offered by a minor insider trading case...