Social network analysis (SNA) examines whether interactions between individuals, teams,
and organizations result in network structures and patterns that can explain important …

Our understanding of the corporation's role in society is in flux. Previous generations viewed
corporate power with skepticism and saw government as an important bulwark against …

Partisan perception affects the actions of professionals in the financial sector. Linking credit
rating analysts to party affiliations from voter records, we show that analysts not affiliated with …

We compare the findings of central bank researchers and academic economists regarding
the macroeconomic effects of quantitative easing (QE). We find that central bank papers find …

A common belief held among researchers and policy makers is that regulatory reliance has
inflated market demand for credit ratings, despite their decreasing informational value …

Certification by analysts on a FinTech platform that harnesses the “wisdom of crowds” is
associated with successful initial coin offerings (ICOs). We show that favorable ratings by a …

Although the majority of research on revolving-door lobbyists centers on the influence they
exercise during their postgovernment careers, relatively little attention is given to whether …

We investigate the consequences of the “revolving door” for trial lawyers at the SEC's
enforcement division. If future job opportunities motivate SEC lawyers to develop and/or …

This paper investigates how public data facilitates financial market informativeness. The
increasing information efficiency in digital economics has raised great attention in extant …

Using data on 143 sovereigns provided by nine agencies based in six countries, we
estimate the determinants of sovereign ratings to test whether agencies assign higher …