Webinar Series

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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Apr 2024

In China’s hybrid economy, the central government employs economic performance evaluations to guide career advancements of local officials. When local governments face stringent debt constraints, these career incentives can spur growth. However, when debt constraints are relaxed, such incentives m...
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Mar 2024

We study the role of export credit agencies—the predominant tool of industrial policy—on firm behavior by using the effective shutdown of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) from 2015-2019 as a natural experiment. We show that firms that previously relied on EXIM support saw a 18%...
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Jan 2024

The bankruptcy process in many countries is lengthy and cumbersome, which prevents creditors from getting repaid efficiently in distress. Exploiting the staggered introduction of specialized bankruptcy courts in China, we find that they lead to sizable reductions in the cost of debt financing. In pa...
Keywords: Bankruptcy Resolution, Creditor Protection, Cost of Debt, China’s Bond Market
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Innovation, Productivity and Challenges in the Digital Era: Asia and Beyond

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Apr 2023

Using a unique experiment of anonymizing online loan applications, we find that anonymous loan applications reduce racial disparities in access to credit. With names on applications, ethnic minority applicants are 10.6% less likely to receive online loan offers than otherwise identical ethnic majori...
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Dec 2023

We conduct a field experiment to test four dividend theories. We enhance managers’ perception of investors’ agency concerns, investors’ risk preference, investors’ information demand, and investors’ tax status respectively in four treatment groups. We find that past payers receiving the ag...
Keywords: Dividend policy, Field experiment, Agency costs, Investor Relations
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