Quality Signaling through Crowdfunding Pricing
Problem definition: This paper studies an entrepreneur’s pricing strategy in a reward-basedcrowdfunding campaign

Ehsan Bolandifar, Zhong Chen, Panos Kouvelis, Weihua Zhou

Working Paper | | No. 20210305

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Venture Capital Coordination in Syndicates, Corporate Monitoring, and Firm Performance
This paper examines how the coordination of venture capital (VC) investors in their syndicates, asmeasured by thei

Jun-Koo Kang, Yingxiang Li, Seungjoon Oh

Working Paper | | No. 20210304

Keywords: Venture capital, geographic concentration, coordination, monitoring, exit, staged financing, board

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Co-Movement of Steady-State Government Debt and Household Debt
To understand whether and how movements of government debt and household debt are related, stationary equilibrium

Insook Lee

Working Paper | | No. 20210303

Keywords: Government debt, household debt, co-movement, uninsurable income risk

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Downward Wage Rigidity, Corporate Investment, and Firm Value
Firms reduce investment when facing downward wage rigidity (DWR), the inability or unwillingness to adjust wages d

DuckKi Cho

Working Paper | | No. 20210302

Keywords: Downward wage rigidity, corporate investment, minimum wage laws, theory of second best

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It's Not Who You Know - It's Who Knows You: Employee Social Capital and Firm Performance
We show that the social capital embedded in employees’ networks contributes to superior firmperformance and p

DuckKi Cho, Lyungmae Choi, Michael Hertzel, Jessie Jiaxu Wang

Working Paper | | No. 20210301

Keywords: Labor and Finance, social capital, social connections, directed networks

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Shadow Union in Local Labor Markets and Capital Structure
This paper identifies an externality of a firm s unionization that affects the capital structure decisions of other

DuckKi Cho, Lyungmae Choi

Working Paper | No. 20210201 |

Keywords: Shadow Union, Capital Structure, Local Labor Market, Threat of Unionization

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Home Location Choices and the Gender Commute Gap
Using administrative records of home mortgages in Beijing, we show that households systematically choose to buy new homes that are closer to the wife’s workplace

Yizhen Gu, Naijia Guo, Jing Wu, Ben Zou

Working Paper | No. 20210105 |

Keywords: Gender gap, Commute to work, Housing demand

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Nonparametric Quantile Regressions for Panel Data Models with Large
This paper considers panel data models where the conditional quantiles of the dependent variables are additively separable as unknown functions of the regressors and the individual effects

Liang Chen

Working Paper | No. 20210104 |

Keywords: Panel data, Quantile regressions, incidental parameters, Jackknife, Bias correction

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Two-Step Estimation of Quantile Panel Data Models with Interactive Fixed Effects
This paper considers the estimation of panel data models with interactive fixed effects where the idiosyncratic errors are subject to conditional quantile restrictions

Liang Chen

Working Paper | No. 20210103 |

Keywords: Panel data, Interactive fixed effects, Smoothed quantile regressions, Principal component analysis, Analytical bias correction, Split-panel jackknife

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Land Cronyism and Corporate Political Cycles in China
This paper measures the degree of industrial land subsidy to a firm using the ratio of the market value of land in the neighborhood to the price at which the firm purchased the land from the local government

Chunyang Wang, Qinghua Zhang

Working Paper | No.20210102 |

Keywords: Cronyism, land, Political turnover, China

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