Finance: Research, Policy and Anecdotes

We held our 5th Emerging Scholar conference at Cass this week, with lots of exciting work by PhD students and recent graduates.   I won’t be able to give a run-down of all the papers presented, but let me point to the winner of the best paper award:  Thomas Lambert presented a fascinating paper on the relationship between banks’ lobbying activity and the likelihood of a regulatory enforcement action against the bank.  He shows that U.S. regulators are less likely to impose regulatory enforcement actions against lobbying banks, while these banks are also more risk-taking.  In spite of concerns on endogeneity, this seems suggestive evidence for regulatory capture and moral hazard. 

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