Working papers

Instruction Tuning Chronologically Consistent Language Models (with Songrun He, Linying Lv and Jimmy Wu)

Entity Neutering (with Joseph Engelberg, Asaf Manela, William Mullins and Luka Vulicevic)

Chronologically Consistent Large Language Models (with Songrun He, Linying Lv and Jimmy Wu)

Revision requested by the Journal of Financial Economics | Citation | Models | Slides | Video

Fundamentals of Perpetual Futures (with Songrun He, Omri Ross and Victor von Wachter)

Revision requested by the Review of Financial Studies | Citation | Slides | Video

The Value of Data to Fixed Income Investors (with Jennie Bai and Jane Li)

Publications

The Natural Language of Finance (with Gerard Hoberg)

Foundations and Trends in Finance, 2025, Volume 14, Issue 4, pp. 244–365 | Citation

Does Finance Benefit Society? A Language Embedding Approach (with Manish Jha and Hongyi Liu)

Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming | Citation | Video | Blog | Data | Code | Working Paper

Liquidity and the Strategic Value of Information (with Ohad Kadan)

Review of Finance, Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2025, pp. 1–32 (Lead article) | Citation | Data | Working Paper

Business News and Business Cycles (with Leland Bybee, Bryan Kelly and Dacheng Xiu)

Journal of Finance, 2024, Volume 79, Issue 5, pp. 3105–3147 | DFA Distinguished Paper Prize, 2025 AFA Meetings | Citation | Video | Data | Working Paper

The Partisanship of Financial Regulators (with Joseph Engelberg, Matthew Henriksson and Jared Williams)

Review of Financial Studies, 2023, Vol 36, Issue 11, pp. 4373–4416 | Citation | Working Paper | Data

Text Selection (with Bryan Kelly and Alan Moreira)

Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2021, Vol 39, Issue 4, pp. 859–879 | Citation | Slides | Code | Working Paper

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2021, Vol 56, Issue 7, pp. 2584–2604 | Citation | Video | Blog

Hub-and-Spoke Regulation and Bank Leverage (with Yadav Gopalan and Ankit Kalda)

Review of Finance, 2021, Vol 25, Issue 5, pp. 1499–1545 | Citation | Working Paper

Estimating the Value of Information (with Ohad Kadan)

Review of Financial Studies, 2019, Vol 32, Issue 3, pp. 951–991 | Best Paper Award, 2016 FMA Conference on Derivatives and Volatility at CBOE | Citation | Slides | Working Paper | Online Appendix

Intermediary Asset Pricing: New Evidence from Many Asset Classes (with Zhiguo He and Bryan Kelly)

Journal of Financial Economics, 2017, Vol 126, Issue 1, pp. 1–35 (Lead article) | Citation | Slides | Data | Working Paper

News Implied Volatility and Disaster Concerns (with Alan Moreira)

Journal of Financial Economics, 2017, Vol 123, Issue 1, pp. 137–162 | Citation | Slides | Data | Working Paper

The Shadow Cost of Bank Capital Requirements (with Roni Kisin)

Review of Financial Studies, 2016, Vol 29, Issue 7, pp. 1780–1820 | Best Paper Award, 2013 Financial Research Association Meetings | Citation | Slides | Working Paper

Information Acquisition in Rumor-Based Bank Runs (with Zhiguo He)

Journal of Finance, 2016, Vol 71, Issue 3, pp. 1113–1158 | Citation | Slides | Working Paper

The Value of Diffusing Information*

Journal of Financial Economics, 2014, Vol 111, Issue 1, pp. 181–199 | Citation | Working Paper

Not so working papers

Funding and Incentives of Regulators: Evidence from Banking (with Roni Kisin)

An Empirical Evaluation of the Black-Litterman Approach to Portfolio Choice (with Michael Gofman)

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