We compare the findings of central bank researchers and academic economists regarding macroeconomic effects quantitative easing (QE). find that papers QE to be more effective than do. Central report larger on output inflation. They also are significant, both statistically economically, they use positive language in abstract. who experience favorable career outcomes. A survey banks reveals subst...

This research analyzes the speeches and interviews of high-level European Central Bank decision makers from 1997 to 2021 identify clusters prominent topics. Transparency is a crucial aspect modern monetary policy, public by central bankers play vital role in achieving it. Our study employs structural topic modeling compare prevalence topics during Global Financial Crisis, pandemic crisis, perio...

Brokerage analysts frequently comment on and sometimes recommend companies that their firms have recently taken public. We show that stocks that underwriter analysts recommend perform more poorly than “buy” recommendations by unaffiliated brokers prior to, at the time of, and subsequent to the recommendation date. We conclude that the recommendations by underwriter analysts show significant evi...

We study the role of underwriter compensation in mitigating conflicts of interest between companies going public and their investment bankers. Making the bank’s compensation more sensitive to the issuer’s valuation should reduce agency conflicts and thus underpricing. Consistent with this prediction, we show that contracting on higher commissions in U.K. IPOs leads to significantly lower underp...