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An Integrated Framework for Information Security Management
SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) Implied by the Serology, Antibody, Testing in New York City
TLDR
This work surveys serology, antibody, studies of the COVID-19 infection to find official cases are understated by an average of 25-to-1 and analyzes the deaths and infections in New York City to estimate an overall IFR for the United States of 0.863 percent.
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Common (stock) sense about risk-shifting and bank bailouts
If a bank is facing insolvency, it will be tempted to reject good loans and accept bad loans so as to shift risk onto its creditors. We analyze the effectiveness of buying up toxic mortgages in…
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'Escaping TARP'
This paper studies the factors that were associated with a bank’s early exit from TARP in 2009. Executive pay restrictions were often a rationale cited for early TARP exit, and high levels of CEO pay…
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TARP’s deadbeat banks
This paper tests whether poorly capitalized banks with troubled loan books are more likely to miss their bailout dividends. Privately held banks with weaker core capital ratios, more charged off…
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Crowdfunding on Patreon by YouTube Sailing Channels
This study finds that YouTube channels crowdfunding on Patreon have more frequent video creation. The median YouTube channel that crowdfunded on Patreon produced a video every 7.5 days compared to…
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The put problem with buying toxic assets
This article uses the option pricing arguments of Merton (1974) to demonstrate that even solvent banks will be reluctant to sell volatile, toxic assets at market prices. Banks’ shareholders have…
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Overpaid CEOs Got FDIC Debt Guarantees
From 2008 to 2009, the FDIC guaranteed hundreds of billions of dollars of newly issued bank debt through the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program (TLGP). We find that CEOs making more than their…
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Valuing TARP Preferred Stock
This is the only paper to provide a valuation framework for untraded Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) preferred stock. Up to $8.1 billion of bailout preferred stock, which is currently paying…
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Estimating JP Morgan Chase's Profits from the Madoff Deposits
JP Morgan Chase had deposits from Bernard L. Madoff’s investors totaling $5.5 billion at one point in 2008. The Chase account was supposedly where most of the funds in his Ponzi scheme were…
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