Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "The McMansion effect: Positional externalities in U.S. suburbs" By Clement S. Bellet (Erasmus University) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"In general, if the SEC pays a visit to your place of work, is that a bad sign? Here is a hilarious academic paper finding that the answer is yes"

How SEC mobile phones can signal an imminent stock price drop ft.com/content/d4f725… via @ft

1/2 Call for Papers: UNH invites submissions for our 3rd Bretton Woods Accounting & Finance Ski Conference, March 5-8, 2025. Will include 20 papers across both accting and finance The deadline for submission is October 21, 2024 brettonwoodsskiconference.com

Thanks Matt Levine for highlighting research by UK Gatton College of Business and Economics's Will Gerken & former phd student, Marcus Painter: "if the SEC pays a visit to your place of work, is that a bad sign? Here is a hilarious academic paper finding that the answer is yes." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🚨 Journal of Corporate Finance Call 🚨 Hosted by Bocconi & co-sponsored by CEPR, JCF is thrilled to announce the call for our June 2025 conference on Information, Contracts, and Firms. Keynote: Michael Ewens Learn more: neeley.tcu.edu/jcf-conference… Please retweet! Deadline in Nov 18!

Don't miss this deadline (10/21), one of the best conferences going right now: brettonwoodsskiconference.com

📢 Attention conference-goers: Today marks 4 weeks until the submission deadline to the #7th FutFinInfo #Conference set for 12-13 May 2025 at INSEAD with Laura Veldkamp (Columbia University University) and Alexander Ljungqvist (SSE of Economics) as #keynote speakers. 1/🧵

🚨Job Alert🚨: Benjamin Egerod and I are looking for a 2-year postdoc to work with us on a project on the Corporate Revolving Door at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), starting in the summer of 2025. No teaching requirement. Job Ad: tinyurl.com/mtswwuxh Deadline: January 5th, 2025

📢Calling all pre-tenure scholars! Chicago Booth's Stigler Center is now accepting applications for the #StiglerAffiliate Fellowship program. Don’t miss out—apply by Jan 19, 2025! promarket.org/2024/10/29/cal…

Who can you see in the picture below? That's right, some of the brightest minds exploring the role of #information in financial markets. They will begin going through all the papers submitted to the 7th FutFinInfo Conference when submissions close on: 🚨 19th Nov 23:59 PST 🚨

Last day to submit to this great conference

1/ 📢 New Paper Alert! In a new paper with Jess Cornaggia and Kimberly Cornaggia, we examine how unauthorized immigration impacts local government finances in the U.S., focusing on municipal bond markets and impacts at the local level. 🧵

🚨New Working Paper 🚨 How does Federal Reserve policy impact the real economy? With Igor Cunha, we reveal a key but overlooked player in this transmission: municipal bond issuers. Our findings show how financial flexibility in public finance amplifies monetary policy. (1/N)

In new research, Will Gerken (UK Gatton College of Business and Economics), Steve Irlbeck (University of New Hampshire), Marcus Painter (Saint Louis University) and Guangli Zhang track the movements of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission-associated smartphone devices to shed light on the SEC’s investigatory process & its impact on firms. promarket.org/2024/12/16/tra…

The Virtual Municipal Finance Workshop starts this Wednesday, 2/19, at 11am EST! Our first presentations will be by Delphine Samuels (UChicago) and Gustavo Cortes (UFlorida) on information creation and distribution Papers and Zoom: muni-workshop.com

Firms outsource the burden of filing with the SEC to third-party filing agents in 80% of 8-Ks. Leakage of private information is greater when firms outsource versus self-file. Leakage differentials are higher when private information is more valuable. jfqa.org/wp-content/upl…

New Working Paper with Benedict Guttman-Kenney and Will Mullins "Immigration and Credit in America" SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Using SSN assignment rules before 2012, we identify immigrants in a 10% TransUnion sample. Our paper presents new facts about US immigrant consumer credit.

Our paper finds that accredited investor standards DO bind and—at the margin—constrain entrepreneurship 🎉 Newly conditionally accepted at Journal of Financial Economics 🎉 lukeste.in/angels

These market timing posts are a big peeve of mine. You can make almost any investment look good if you pick the right start/end date! Same comparison over past 10 years. NVDA-Yellow AAPL-Blue GOOG-Purple BBW-Green. Also one graph without NVDA since it dwarfs the others