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Liquidity Dependence and the Waxing and Waning of Central Bank Balance Sheets

Acharya, Viral V.; Chauhan, Rahul S.; Rajan, Raghuram Govind - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

in 2017, there was no commensurate shrinkage of these claims on liquidity. Consequently, the financial sector was left … more sensitive to potential liquidity shocks, with weaker-capitalized banks most exposed. This necessitated Fed liquidity … provision in September 2019 and again in March 2020. Liquidity-risk-exposed banks suffered the most drawdowns and the largest …

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What Purpose Do Corporations Purport? Evidence from Letters to Shareholders

Rajan, Raghuram Govind; Ramella, Pietro; Zingales, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using natural language processing, we identify corporate goals stated in the shareholder letters of the 150 largest companies in the United States from 1955 to 2020. Corporate goals have proliferated, from less than one on average in 1955 to more than 7 in 2020. While in 1955, profit...

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Cross-border Spillovers : How US Financial Conditions affect M&As Around the World

Bergant, Katharina; Mishra, Prachi; Rajan, Raghuram Govind - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We find that financial conditions in the core have significant spillover effects on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As). On average, a 1 percentage point easing of the IMF US Financial Conditions Index is associated with approximately a 10% higher volume of cross-border M&As. The...

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