This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 266,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) and 2016, covering up to 91 countries. Our main insight is that, as in...

We study the multifaceted effects of trade policy shocks on financial markets using a structural vector autoregression identified via event day heteroskedasticity. We find that restrictive US trade policy shocks affect US and international stock prices heterogeneously, but generally negatively....

Does using prescription drugs off-label increase disability and medical expenditure? This paper uses a unique dataset to evaluate off-label vs. on-label drug use in the US non-institutionalized population. Patients using drugs off-label have on average $515 higher medical expenditure and...

Vor dem Hintergrund diffuser Anreizstrukturen zur Implementierung eines Compliance-Management-Systems erwächst eine Vielzahl der Vorzüge erst durch die Offenlegung gegenüber Stakeholdern, wie Investoren, Geschäftspartnern oder Beschäftigten. Mit steigender Bedeutung von Compliance gerät...