This paper examines whether government intervention plays an important role in determining corporate investment allocations and efficiency in China. We find that the government tends to intervene to promote corporate investment in fixed assets, equity in other state owned enterprises, and...

This paper investigates whether non-overlapping trading time between two markets can cause return predictability from one market to another. We select cross-listed stocks in mainland China and Hong Kong. A weak return predictability is found in short horizon but no predictability exists in long...

This paper examines whether the coordinated use of macroprudential policies can help lessen the incidence of banking crises. It is well-known that rapid domestic credit growth and house price growth positively influence the chances of a banking crisis. As well, a crisis in other countries with...

We study the functioning of the municipal bond market during the COVID-19 pandemic. The average offering yield increases while the number of new issues drops when county-level COVID-19 case and death counts rise. Exploiting the differential timing of local policy actions, we find that emergency...

We argue that the focus of community banks on relationship lending to small businesses combined with their relatively simple organizational structure allowed them to respond faster to Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan requests than larger banks. Consistent with this argument we find,...