This paper shows that a production network facilitates expectations-driven business cycles. Through input-output linkages, changes in expected demand can cause business-cycle fluctuations and endogenous movements in the Solow residual. When inputs must be purchased one period in advance,...

We propose a granular framework that makes use of advanced statistical methods to approximate developments in economy-wide expected corporate earnings. In particular, we evaluate the dynamic network structure of stock returns in the United States as a proxy for the transmission of shocks through...

This paper investigates the role of industry-specific effects and structural properties of intersectoral customer-supplier relations on the corporate default prediction of individual firms. We focus on a large sample of US exchange-listed companies over the period 1997- 2015 and show that...

I examine whether directors' superior access to information and resources through their board network improves the quality of firms' forecasting. Managers may benefit from well-connected directors (i.e., greater board centrality) as, even though managers have firm specific knowledge, they may...

We document robust industry return predictability through the lens of a competition network, connecting two industries that share a multi-industry market leader. Equity returns in an industry exhibit a delayed response to cross-industry effects due to investors' limited attention and constrained...

It is well established in the literature that customer retention is at least as important as customer acquisition, especially in the freemium-based virtual economy, in which individuals are connected by multi-relational social networks, such as the “friendships” and “guilds” (virtual...