Papers
Uploaded: Oct 7, 2025
Endogenous Misinformation and Source Authentication
We study endogenous information provision and source authentication when secondary senders can copy primary senders' signals, providing a microfoundation for correlation neglect. Authentication mitigates this duplication bias but hinders information diffusion, creating ambiguous effects on misinformation and welfare. Crucially, we...
Uploaded: Oct 6, 2025
Information Acquisition in Fragmented Markets
This paper analyzes how market fragmentation affects traders’ information choices and market outcomes. We built a model of a decentralized market with costly information acquisition based on a double-auction model. We show that the information acquisition is lower than the...
Uploaded: Oct 6, 2025
Capital Structure and ESG Integration
We analyze how borrowers’ capital structure affects their incentives to integrate ESG. Borrowers may pursue socially valuable but financially underperforming projects to reduce expected payments to outside investors. These financial gains are amplified when the payoffs of investor-held securities are...
Uploaded: Oct 6, 2025
Dynamic Market Choice
In practice, many assets are traded in both transparent centralized markets and opaque decentralized markets. To explain traders' market choices, we develop a model of dynamic learning and market selection between the centralized and decentralized markets. With heterogeneous trader value...
Uploaded: Oct 4, 2025
The Rise of Specialized Financial Products
The variety of financial products available for firms to raise funds has expanded rapidly in recent decades. This paper studies the role of innovations that introduce specialized financial products using a combination of granular data and a parsimonious model of...
Uploaded: Oct 4, 2025
The Rise of Factor Investing: "Passive" Security Design and Market Implications
Exchange-Traded-Funds, smart beta products, and many index-based vehicles are composite securities (CSs) facilitating trading systematic factors through reducing investors' duplicated costs in trading multiple securities. We analytically show that CS designers in competition optimally select liquid underlying assets representative of...
