This paper considers a financing problem for an innovative firm that is launching a web-based platform. The entrepreneur, on one hand, faces a large degree of demand uncertainty on his product and on the other hand has to deal with incentive problems of professional blockchain participants who...

This paper studies wildfires in California from 2000 to 2018 using comprehensive merged dataon fires, mortgage and property characteristics, and weather. We find a significant increase in mortgage delinquency and foreclosure after a fire, but these effects decrease in the size of the fire,which...