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Do Green Stocks Get You the Green? Differential Impacts of S&P 500 ESG Index Labels on Firm Stock Prices
by Heera Rajavel Abstract On January 28, 2019, the S&P Dow Jones Indices launched the ESG S&P 500 Index, aiming to create a sustainable index fund with a similar risk/return profile to the S&P 500 Index. This study assesses the causal mechanisms behind the performance of the S&P 500 ESG Index by running two difference-in-differences […]
Fact or Fluff: Does Wording Used by Gene Editing Companies Affect Investor Behaviors?
by Thomas Freireich Abstract The writing style a startup uses to portray itself has an impact on investors’ perceptions of them, subsequently affecting their venture capital decisions. This funding is particularly important given the prominence of venture capital as a primary financial source for growing early-stage biotechnology companies. Currently, due to recent scientific advances, many […]
Free University? An Investigation of Australia’s 1974 Free Higher Education Policy and Its Impact on Enrollment, Degree Completion, Later-Life Occupational Status, and Income
by Yaxuan “Annie” Cui Abstract To what extent has the free higher education policy of 1974 impacted Australian students’ decisions of university enrollment, degree completion, and later-life human capital development? In this paper, I analyze the impact of the policy from both national descriptive statistics and individual-level enrollment and degree completion decisions using the Australian […]
Effects of Neighborhoods on Children’s Educational Outcomes in Indonesia
by Audrey Liu Abstract There is considerable observed geographic variable in outcomes across space. Neighborhood effects attempt to explain to what extent the place in which an individual grows up impacts their future outcomes. This paper focuses on neighborhood effects on children in Indonesia where there is a large disparity in public and private amenities […]
Impact of Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefit Expansion on Startup Funding
by Judy Tianhong Zhong Abstract In 2018, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that they would expand the supplemental benefits that can be included in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. The goal was to encourage insurers to innovate and test new benefit offerings that could improve health outcomes and reduce healthcare spending. A […]
Technological Impacts on Return to Education in Brazil
by Yirui Zhao Abstract The wage return to education has been studied for a long time. Acemoglu and Autor (2010) connect the decrease of medium-level job opportunities in the U.S. with technological advances. Their theoretical model predicts that if technology replaces routine jobs, workers with medium-level skills will experience decreases in wages relative to both […]
The Cost of Delay: Evidence from the Ethereum Transaction Fee Market
by Yinhong “William” Zhao Abstract Delaying a financial transaction can be costly, but the cost of delay is difficult to estimate in traditional finance. I exploit the unique data offering and market design of the Ethereum blockchain to estimate the cost of delaying financial transactions in decentralized finance (DeFi). I construct a dynamic auction model […]
Determinants of Sustained Success in NFT Markets
by Emily Xu Abstract Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) took headlines by storm in 2021 and have since established their own marketplace. As public interest in the space wanes in 2022-2023, I characterize this emerging space and investigate factors that distinguish top-performing NFT projects within their respective market segments while controlling for external market and cryptocurrency exposures. […]
Illuminating the Economic Costs of Conflict: A Night Light Analysis of the Sri Lankan Civil War
by Nicholas Kiran Wijesekera Abstract This paper investigates the economic consequences of the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009) by using event-based data on civilian and combatant fatalities in addition to night light imagery as a proxy for economic activity. By looking at regional economic activity across the island of Sri Lanka, this paper seeks to […]
The True Cost: An Aggregate Analysis of the Advanced Clean Cars II Policy
by Lauren Mackenzie Sizemore Abstract Global climate change, emphasis on the global, requires local solutions. Every entity plays a role, some more than others. Yet, when improvements in pollution or emissions in one region leads to more problems in another, how is the net cost or benefit to be deciphered for the environment, for the […]
