Working Papers

IGM working papers

The Initiative on Global Markets (IGM) working paper series is intended to show the research on financial markets, international business, and public policy that is produced by Chicago Booth faculty. These papers are outputs of faculty research that has been funded by the IGM.

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#	Title	Author(s)
26	The Failure of Models That Predict Failure: Distance, Incentives and Defaults	Amit Seru
25	The Political Economy of the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis	Atif Mian, Amir Sufi, and Francesco Trebbi
24	Media versus Special Interests	Luigi Zingales
23	The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta	Chang-Tai Hsieh
22	The Intergenerational Transfer of Public Pension Promises	Robert Novy-Marx and Joshua D. Rauh
21	Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States	Raghuram Rajan
20	Long Term Persistence	Luigi Zingales
19	Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the US Congress	Francesco Trebbi
18	Measuring and Modeling Execution Cost and Risk	Jeffrey Russell
17	Tipping and Concentration in Markets with Indirect Network	Jean-Pierre Dubé, Günter Hitsch, and Pradeep Chintagunta
16	Competition and Truth in the Market for News	Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro
15	The Consequences of Mortgage Credit Expansion: Evidence from the 2007 Mortgage Default Crisis	Atif Mian and Amir Sufi
14	Procrastination and Impatience	Luigi Zingales
13	Social Capital as Good Culture	Luigi Zingales
12	Mandatory IFRS Reporting Around the World: Early Evidence on the Economic Consequences	Christian Leuz
11	Understanding Trust	Luigi Zingales
10	What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers	Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro
9	Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses: Integrating the Employer and Nonemployer Universes	Steven J. Davis
8	Was the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Really This Costly?	Christian Leuz
7	Investment Spikes: New Facts and a General Equilibrium Exploration	Anil K Kashyap
6	Market Forces and News Media in Muslim Countries	Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro
5	Adopting a Label: Heterogeneity in the Economic Consequences of IFRS Adoptions	Christian Leuz
4	The Contradiction in China’s Gradualist Banking Reforms	Anil K Kashyap
3	Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?	Luigi Zingales
2	Cost of Capital Effects and Changes in Growth Expectations around U.S. Cross-Listings	Christian Leuz
1	Is the U.S. Capital Market Losing Its Competitive Edge?	Luigi Zingales