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How Much Should We Trust Staggered Difference-in-Differences Estimates?
(Elsevier BV, 2022-05)
We explain when and how staggered difference-in-differences regression estimators, commonly applied to assess the impact of policy changes, are biased. These biases are likely to be relevant for a large portion of research ...
Predictable Financial Crises
(Wiley, 2022-03-10)
Using historical data on post-war financial crises around the world, we show that crises are substantially predictable. The combination of rapid credit and asset price growth over the prior three years, whether in the ...
Monetary Policy and Global Banking
(Wiley, 2020-07-27)
When central banks adjust interest rates, the opportunity cost of lending in local currency changes, but—in absence of frictions—there is no spillover effect to lending in other currencies. However, when equity capital is ...
Learning to Rank an Assortment of Products
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2022-03)
We consider the product-ranking challenge that online retailers face when their customers typically behave as “window shoppers.” They form an impression of the assortment after browsing products ranked in the initial ...
Complex Disclosure
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2022-05)
We present evidence that unnecessarily complex disclosure can result from strategic incentives to shroud information. In our laboratory experiment, senders are required to report their private information truthfully but ...
Core Earnings: New Data and Evidence
(Elsevier BV, 2021-12)
Using a novel dataset, we show that components of firms' GAAP earnings stemming from ancillary business activities or transitory shocks are significant in frequency and magnitude. These components have grown over time and ...
Work‐From‐Anywhere: The Productivity Effects of Geographic Flexibility
(Wiley, 2021-04)
An emerging form of remote work allows employees to work-from-anywhere, so that the worker can choose to live in a preferred geographic location. While traditional work-from-home (WFH) programs offer the worker temporal ...
Don't Take Their Word for It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual Funds
(Wiley, 2021-04-29)
We provide evidence that bond fund managers misclassify their holdings, and that these misclassifications have a real and significant impact on investor capital flows. In particular, many funds report more investment grade ...
Gender Differences in COVID-19 Attitudes and Behavior: Panel Evidence from Eight Countries
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020-10-15)
The initial public health response to the breakout of COVID-19 required fundamental changes in individual behavior, such as isolation at home or wearing masks. The effectiveness of these policies hinges on generalized ...
The Past Is Prologue? Venture-Capital Syndicates’ Collaborative Experience and Start-Up Exits
(Academy of Management, 2022-04)
Past research has produced contradictory insights into how prior collaboration between organizations—their relational embeddedness—impacts collective collaborative performance. We theorize that the effect of relational ...