Franklin Allen

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Law, Finance, and Economic Growth in China
Signalling by underpricing in the IPO market
Optimal Financial Crises
Empirical evidence suggests that banking panics are a natural outgrowth of the business cycle. In other words panics are not simply the result of "sunspots" or self-fulfilling prophecies. Panics…
Bubbles and Crises
In recent financial crises a bubble, in which asset prices rise, is followed by a collapse and widespread default. Bubbles are caused by agency relationships in the banking sector. Investors use…
Using genetic algorithms to find technical trading rules
Limited market participation and volatility of asset prices
Traditional asset-pricing theories assume complete market participation, despite considerable empirical evidence that most investors participate in a limited number of markets. The authors show that…
A Theory of Dividends Based on Tax Clienteles
This paper offers a novel explanation for why some firms prefer to pay dividends rather than repurchase shares. It is well-known that institutional investors are relatively less taxed than individual…
The Foundations of Financial Inclusion: Understanding Ownership and Use of Formal Accounts
Competition and Financial Stability
Competition policy in the banking sector is complicated by the necessity of maintaining financial stability. Greater competition may be good for (static) efficiency, but bad for financial stability.…
比较金融系统 = Comparing financial systems
Financial systems are crucial to the allocation of resources in a modern economy. They channel household savings to the corporate sector and allocate investment funds among firms; they allow…
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