We study the interactions and strategies of economic agents within a business committee to better understand how decisions are made in an important group setting. Specifically, we study the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) monetary policy actions and meeting transcripts to...

We investigate the consequences of widespread ESG-based portfolio exclusions on the expected returns of firms subject to exclusion. We use the exclusions of Norway's ``Oil Fund'' as a sample of low quality ESG stocks. The fund is the world's largest SWF, whose ESG decisions are viewed as a model...