This paper investigates the long-run recovery experience of U.S. banks that received capital infusions under the Capital Purchase Program (CPP), a part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Based on a dynamic recovery model, our results show that recovering CPP banks tended to be in...

Extant literature suggests that consumers derive more happiness from experiences (e.g., vacations) than from material possessions (e.g., furniture). However, this literature typically pits material against experiential consumption, treating them as a single bipolar construct of their relative...

Prior research has shown that exerting self control can lead to increased aggression. In the present research, we find that exerting self control is associated with angry behavior more broadly. In particular, using a “matched-choice paradigm,” we find that after exerting self control people...

There has been much interest in recent years in the ex ante equity risk premium. Empirical studies indicate that it is possible for the ex ante equity risk premium to be negative and that it is related to an inverted yield curve of government bonds. This finding holds for the U.S. marketplace...