@LeistenEcon@florianederer I'm afraid it's not quite that salty. It involves me in a distracted state packing up my office for a move to a temporary one years ago and a book-buyer showing up at a particularly fortuitous time and walking off with many books I had no intention of parting with
We are excited to announce the 𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 on September 28-30, 2023. Please submit your papers and come and enjoy the beautiful fall foliage on the @IUBloomington campus. https://t.co/qp52V6NUFT
@AsafManela So sad to hear. Even when he was a PhD student he was a terrific mentor to those of us in the younger cohorts. May his memory be a blessing.
.@KleinerKristoph, @stoffprof, and Yonker in @J_Fin_Economics exploit random assignment of bankruptcy judges to show that individuals are less likely to file for bankruptcy or enter foreclosure if their workplace peers' bankruptcy cases are dismissed.
https://t.co/5GO6wbWhCQ
New working paper by @KelleyFinance colleagues @KleinerKristoph and Niklas Huether: "Are Judges Randomly Assigned to Chapter 11 Bankruptcies? Not According to Hedge Funds" (Winner of Best Paper Award AIM Investment Conference @UTexasMcCombs . Thread
https://t.co/OWuu5iZV2I
Two days ago the NYT posted an investigation into politicians trading stocks
They found that 81 Democrats & 101 Republicans filed up to 3,700 trades and $100M in possible volume
Many had 100% winners, with some perfectly timed
Here’s examples of just how good they were