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- Publications
- Influence
Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
- I. Dyck, Adair Morse, Luigi Zingales
- Business
- 1 February 2007
What external control mechanisms are most effective in detecting corporate fraud? To address this question we study in depth all reported cases of corporate fraud in companies with more than 750… Expand
Information Disclosure, Cognitive Biases and Payday Borrowing
- Marianne Bertrand, Adair Morse
- Economics
- 1 October 2009
If people face cognitive limitations or biases that lead to financial mistakes, what are possible ways lawmakers can help? One approach is to remove the option of the bad decision; another approach… Expand
Payday Lenders: Heroes or Villains?
- Adair Morse
- Economics
- 1 October 2011
Does access to high-interest credit (payday loans) exacerbate or mitigate individual financial distress. Using natural disasters as an exogenous shock, I apply a propensity score-matched,… Expand
Patriotism in your portfolio
- Adair Morse, Sophie Shive
- Economics
- 1 May 2011
More patriotic countries have greater home bias in their equity selection. In a panel of World Values Surveys covering 53 countries, measures of patriotism are positively related to home bias… Expand
Trickle-Down Consumption
- Marianne Bertrand, Adair Morse
- Economics
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- 1 March 2013
We document that nonrich households consume a larger share of their current income when exposed to higher top income and consumption levels. Permanent income, wealth effects, and upward local price… Expand
Are Incentive Contracts Rigged by Powerful CEOs
- Adair Morse, Vikram K. Nanda, Amit Seru
- Economics
- 1 October 2011
We argue that powerful CEOs induce their boards to shift the weight on performance measures towards the better performing measures, thereby rigging the incentive part of their pay. The intuition is… Expand
How Pervasive is Corporate Fraud
- I. Dyck, Adair Morse, Luigi Zingales
- Business
- 22 February 2013
We estimate what percentage of firms engage in fraud and the economic cost of fraud. Our estimates are based on detected frauds, and frauds that we infer are started but are not caught. To identify… Expand
Stock Returns Over the FOMC Cycle
- Anna Cieślak, Adair Morse, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
- Economics
- 12 February 2018
We document that since 1994, the equity premium is earned entirely in weeks 0, 2, 4, and 6 in Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) cycle time, that is, even weeks starting from the last FOMC meeting.… Expand
Consumer-Lending Discrimination in the Fintech Era
- Robert P. Bartlett, Adair Morse, Richard Stanton, N. Wallace
- Business
- 7 December 2017
Discrimination in lending can occur either in face-to-face decisions or in algorithmic scoring. We provide a workable interpretation of the courts’ legitimate-business-necessity defense of… Expand
Sovereign Wealth Fund Portfolios
- I. Dyck, Adair Morse
- Business
- 1 February 2011
Using a novel, hand-collected dataset of Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) investments in public equities, private firms, and real estate, we establish what SWF portfolios look like. SWF allocations are… Expand
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