Just posted a new paper: "Racial Differences in the Total Rate of Return on Owner-Occupied Housing" with Rebecca Diamond . We examine racial inequality in "total returns:" house price appreciation, a home's rental value, property taxes, and maintenance. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

One of the most striking charts this year: China’s startup ecosystem has almost completely collapsed in the last 5 years.

Black and Hispanic homeowners earned higher rates of returns on housing than White homeowners from 1974–2021, driven by higher rental yields for minority owners, from Rebecca Diamond and Will Diamond nber.org/papers/w32916

As a member of the Rising Scholars Committee for #EasternFinanceAssociation, I wanted to share that the call for papers is due tomorrow 9/30/24 & has a no fault dual submission with The Financial Review. I will be on the committee choosing PhD paper awards! easternfinance.org/2025-meeting/

Call for papers for the very 1st UMass Amherst Finance Conference isomfinancedept.wixsite.com/finance-confer… The conference is on Friday, May 9, 2025 The deadline for submitting your paper is February 1 Economics Conferences #econtwitter UMass Amherst Isenberg School of Management

Submit submit! Menaka Hampole Greg Buchak Vera Chau Taha Choukhmane Michael Boutros Brittany Lewis Julia Fonseca Jan Schneemeier Lu Liu Ioannis Spyridopoulos Paul Decaire alz Ed Van Wesep Jacob Conway Sasha Indarte Vrinda Mittal

Great work Simon Mongey Mike Waugh ! Check out Gupta (2025) which shows these facts in the Indian context! ➡️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Excited to join Aoifinn Devitt’s podcast tomorrow to discuss the current landscape of financial regulation, unintended consequences of past regulation, and alternative investments. Join us at live at #Moneta Wealth Management if you’re in Clayton!

Some questions triggered by the release of DeepSeek R1 on January 20. These are formulated as questions, because I do not know the answers and it may well be that most of these answers are only things we can find out over time. First, perhaps the most important question is this:

Check out my brilliant coauthor ⁦Manisha Padi⁩ discussing our work on the importance of mortgage servicers for investor and borrower welfare - in a world with securitized debt ⬇️ thx for featuring us ETH Zurich! youtu.be/Zfhe6PpuayA?si…