We examine the economic consequences of a rule designed to improve consumers' understanding of mortgage information. The 2015 TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosures (TRID) rule simplifies the disclosures provided to consumers, reducing their information processing costs and increasing lenders'...

We build a financial intermediation model wherein bank and fintech intermediaries differ in their enforcement technology, reliance on collateral, and funding cost and compete or partner within frictional credit markets. The model explains the emergence and coexistence of three forms of lending...

We formulate a quantitative dynamic equilibrium theory of trade in the fed funds market, calibrate it to fit a comprehensive set of marketwide and micro-level cross-sectional observations, and use it to make two contributions to the operational side of monetary policy implementation. First, we...

This Online Appendix includes supplementary discussion and analyses. The original paper "Economic Consequences of Transparency Regulation: Evidence from Bank Mortgage Lending" is available at the following URL: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4032850

The book describes the contemporary problems and challenges of governing the financial market. The authors divided the issues associated with it in two parts. The first concerns the challenges of governing the banking sector. The authors discuss the analysis of systemic risk within the banking...

On November 14th, 2014, SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum – and CNMV, Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores – the Spanish Authority for supervision of securities markets – jointly organized a conference in Madrid: Challenges in Securities Markets Regulation: Investor...

This paper investigates collective denial and willful blindness in groups, organizations and markets. Agents with anticipatory preferences, linked through an interaction structure, choose how to interpret and recall public signals about future prospects. Wishful thinking (denial of bad news) is...

For the past two decades a market model introduced by Smith, Suchanek, and Williams (1988, henceforth SSW) has dominated experimental research on financial markets. In SSW the fundamental value of the traded asset is determined by the expected value of a finite stream of dividend payments. This...

This paper revisits the Kareken-Wallace model of exchange rate formation in a two-country overlapping generations world. Following the seminal paper by Arifovic (Journal of Political Economy, 104, 1996, 510-541) we investigate a dynamic version of the model in which agents' decision rules are...