Quality Signaling through Crowdfunding Pricing

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Problem definition: This paper studies an entrepreneur’s pricing strategy in a reward-basedcrowdfunding campaign

Venture Capital Coordination in Syndicates, Corporate Monitoring, and Firm Performance

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This paper examines how the coordination of venture capital (VC) investors in their syndicates, asmeasured by thei

Co-Movement of Steady-State Government Debt and Household Debt

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To understand whether and how movements of government debt and household debt are related, stationary equilibrium

Downward Wage Rigidity, Corporate Investment, and Firm Value

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Firms reduce investment when facing downward wage rigidity (DWR), the inability or unwillingness to adjust wages d

It's Not Who You Know - It's Who Knows You: Employee Social Capital and Firm Performance

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We show that the social capital embedded in employees’ networks contributes to superior firmperformance and p

Shadow Union in Local Labor Markets and Capital Structure

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This paper identifies an externality of a firm s unionization that affects the capital structure decisions of other

Home Location Choices and the Gender Commute Gap

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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

Nonparametric Quantile Regressions for Panel Data Models with Large

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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

Two-Step Estimation of Quantile Panel Data Models with Interactive Fixed Effects

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This paper considers the estimation of panel data models with interactive fixed effects where the idiosyncratic errors are subject to conditional quantile restrictions

Land Cronyism and Corporate Political Cycles in China

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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