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May 2024

Diverging Paths in Banks' Business Models: New Facts and Macro Implications

Shohini KUNDU, Tyler MUIR, Jinyuan ZHANG
We document the emergence of two distinct types of banks over the past decade: high rate banks which provide deposit rates in line with market interest rates, and low rate banks whose deposits are now even less sensitive to market rates. While the aggregate sensitivity of deposit rates to market int...
Keywords: Banking, Monetary Policy, Technology
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May 2024

Patent Hunters

Lauren H. COHEN, Umit G. GURUN, S. Katie MOON, Paula SUH
Analyzing millions of patents granted by the USPTO between 1970 and 2020, we find a pattern where specific patents only rise to prominence after considerable time has passed. Amongst these late-blooming influential patents, we show that there are key players (patent hunters) who consistently identif...
Keywords: Innovation chain, innovation rent, patent citations, patent evolution, technological impact, technological trajectories, commercialization
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May 2024

Discrimination in Two-sided Matching Market Experimental and Theoretical Evidence in Entrepreneurial Finance

Junlong FENG, Ofir GEFEN, Ye ZHANG, Weijie ZHONG
To explain the unique persistent gender gap in the US entrepreneurial community, this paper conducts an experiment with real US startup founders. Results show that male entrepreneurs have implicit gender discrimination against female investors due to statistical discrimination. The discrimination is...
Keywords: Discrimination, Matching, Field Experiments, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship
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May 2024

Capital Flight with Intra-firm Lending

Jiafei HU, Haishan YUAN
Using a novel administrative dataset, we study the cross-border capital flows related to internal loans of Chinese multinational enterprises. We exploit an exogenous policy change on the RMB exchange rate and provide evidence that the expectation of the RMB exchange rate has a significant impact on ...
Keywords: Multinationals, RMB Exchange Rate, Internal Debt, Capital Flight
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May 2024

EXIM Exit The Real Effects of Trade Financing by Export Credit Agencies

Poorya KABIR, Adrien MATRAY, Karsten MULLER, Chenzi XU
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 ...
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